Whatever else can be said about Donald Trump, one thing that is certain is that the neocon establishment, which includes politicians, pundits and oligarchs aligned with both major political parties, cannot stand him. Here’s the key thing to understand about why this is so: Ironically, Donald Trump, who is a neoliberal Republican, is in some ways a neocon’s dream candidate.
In 2017, Trump severely slashed taxes for the richest Americans. He and his administration also enacted a host of other forms of deregulation that benefited the very wealthy. Add to this that he’s unquestionably supportive of Israel. Sounds like their man so far, right? Except for one glaring problem: Donald Trump doesn’t line up with the neocons’ globalist agenda that’s centered around perpetual war. Trump is primarily an isolationist and he’s a nationalist, which means his presence in the White House is an obstruction to the neocons’ plans.
The paradox in all of this is the fact that Donald Trump, whose policies in his previous stint in the White House undeniably favored the wealthy and the well situated, has become a populist icon amongst a huge swath of the struggling American working-middle class. At bottom, Trump’s continuing popularity is a testament to the ubiquitous presence in Washington of career politicians who systematically disregard the needs of the majority of the American public in order to align with the dictates of their uber-wealthy donors.
Americans have become so disillusioned and desperate to separate themselves from the inauthenticity and counter-productivity of political bipartisan business as usual bulls__t at this point that they’d rather throw in with Trump again, who is at least unpredictable, than subject themselves to yet another four years of entirely foreseeable stagnation, dejection and constant war. This commitment of the overwhelming majority of the politicians in both donor-owned major US political parties to a program of constant spending on war and weapons sales abroad at the expense of the needs of the American citizenry is the key factor in this paradoxical equation.
When you start putting together all of the documented facts (1) an alarming realization begins to emerge. I’m not referring to anything like an undisclosed conspiracy here. For the most part all of this is pretty much an open secret. It certainly doesn’t take a master detective to figure out that the United States, as a country, has essentially become a front for a multi billion dollar war dependent global embezzlement ring.
Whatever else one thinks of him, Donald Trump represents a serious threat to an ensconced elitist coterie of mega-wealthy grifters, which includes multi-billionaire moguls and their inside info accessing payrolled politicians, who have spent the last twenty-plus years making a killing off of all of the killing that the US has done in the 21st century. All of this to say, I believe Trump will probably win next week. And the warmongering establishment Democratic party has no one to blame but themselves for it.
As for myself, I’ll be voting for Dr. Cornel West. Here is a link to his website, which includes his mission statement.
