The outcome of the 2012 was deeply disturbing to many. I recall reading the story of one man, whose name I've forgotten, who was affected so. How was it that Obama could get elected and reelected in this country? I've wondered many times about that myself. Even Limbaugh stated on his show that we lost the country. Without a doubt, something is deeply wrong somewhere, and most everybody knows it, too.
As for me, I'm on my own little quest here to look for some answers. Throughout these last five and a half years, I figured I was on the right track. It should be relatively easy to get back on track, or so I thought. Obviously, this is not happening. If anything, things appear to be getting much worse, much faster.
Evidently, the problem must be a lot deeper than I thought. A lot deeper than anyone is thinking at this moment in time. Getting the answer and getting it implemented in time may be beyond us.
I was just thinking this morning about how the political contest was going in context with this. Much has been made of Trump's lack of knowledgeable people to advise him on foreign policy. But if the Establishment is wrong, then anybody else would be an unknown by definition. That's because the Establishment has been running things for a long time. They are everywhere. If you are going to change things, the Establishment is going to have to go, and new faces are going to have to replace the old.
If everything is so good now, why make any changes at all? That new faces appear is not much of an argument in favor of keeping the old ones, who are making all these messes. Their attacks would be so easy to defeat, but there doesn't seem to be anyone capable of making the winning moves. Hence, my criticism of Trump. He could have gone a long way towards providing the victory, but he now doesn't appear to be up to the task required. He has succeeded in highlighting the problem, however.
Trump's shortcomings don't mean that what's left is competent. I have come to the recent conclusion that Cruz is just another one of the Establishment's men, thus he has no answers either. In fact, Cruz, like the Establishment itself, is the problem, not the solution. Trump has accomplished this much in pointing this out. But more is needed. He needs to convince the public why they are the problem, and why they must go.
In a sense, Cruz is the Establishment what Gorbachev was to the Soviet Union. As glasnost and perestroika didn't save the Soviet Union, and Gorby failed, so shall Cruz. The reason these guys are so opposed to Trump is that Trump is flatly telling them to go eff off, with their open borders and free trade. But he has to seal that bargain with the public, and in this, he is failing. ( People must like their food stamps a lot.) Free stuff and endless entertainment may save some individual leaders for a time, but it cannot save a nation. Bread and circuses didn't save Rome. Eventually, the bread and circuses run out. When it does...
The reason the Establishment has to go is that they run everything, including both parties. They have managed to fool everybody into thinking that there's real opposition between the parties. The failure of the GOP to oppose Obama should have opened more than a few eyes, but evidently not.
Somebody or something had better and soon. It is getting late.
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