Thank you for this essay, Steve. Hillary Clinton's loss to the career criminal knucklehead will echo always as a catastrophic event in all of human history. That this eminently qualified, prepared, intelligent woman lost to such a despicable "know-nothing", who has led the world toward chaos and cataclysm, is nearly an unfathomable event. In the 70 years of my lifetime, I can think of no president who was as qualified as she. To this day, there is a magnet on my refrigerator received after a donation to her 2016 campaign, "Madam President". It saddens me every time I notice it as I think of what might have been. I am glad she contributes still.
Thank you so much for elevating this interview. I wish millions of people would read it. She didn’t say anything I didn’t already realize, but she understood what was happening at a time when most of us didn’t have a clue, myself included. I can’t imagine how maddening it must have been for her. Never in my wildest dreams did it occur to me that Trump would win the election. But as we now know, he didn’t win the election legitimately and it’s too late to do anything about it now.
There’s no question in my mind that we are
in a civil war. What astonishes me are the senators & reps. who were late in realizing it and a few who still don’t understand the gravity of the situation. I also think many main stream media and corporate execs don’t get it either. Msm reporting almost always favors the GOP and Trump and for what? For a party & a president that puts the welfare of big businesses and industries above the American people. The scariest aspect is msm doesn’t think through where this government dysfunction is headed.
If republicans become the majority and there’s a republican president I guarantee that although they might think it’s exciting to look forward to the money they can rake in, it won’t be that way for long. Dictators are capricious and laws can’t be depended upon in a dictatorship. As Trump has shown us, it’s all about doing “favors.” Msm won’t be any more safe from the whims of a capricious dictator than we are.
In addition, from what I’ve read & know about the economy, corporations & msm in favor of Trump & his ilk will find their profits start to diminish if the GOP takes over. Why? Because their profits depend on the middle class having the buying power it’s had since WWII and that will be long gone.
If republicans take over they will do away with all regulations, discontinue subsidized healthcare, including medicare/medicaid, they’ll privatize the post office & social security, which means we we will very likely have to pay out of our pockets for someone to manage/invest our social security income. Further, they want to privatize all public schools grades K-8, which means our children will only get the education we can afford to pay for.
Those are just a few things they will change. There will be much more based on the libertarian philosophy of governance. Essentially the goal is to do away with the middle class. What would that mean for corporations in general? It means people will have much less discretionary income, and that means most people won’t be able to afford the goods and services corporations are selling. Do you think they’ve thought that through? I don’t.
Then, there’s the spectre of violence. As many engineered government takeovers in the past have shown us, the revolutionaries/ criminals forcing massive government change think they can control the outcome, keeping violence to a minimum, but when push comes to shove, they invariably can’t control either the violence or the ultimate outcome.
One more thing. This massive change has been funded by the Kochs, Mercers & Steve Bannon, among others, and the Mercers are religious fanatics who intend to write a new Constitution that turns America into a theocracy. Why would others like the Kochs be in favor of that? History has shown that religion has been a great way to maintain control over large groups of people. But our current civilization is much different than those previous Western European civilizations. What worked then isn’t likely to work now, here in America because religious control requires an uneducated, uninformed population. Although our education standards have diminished over the years
they haven’t diminished to the point required for a theocracy to survive.
Greed has become ingrained in our culture and money is what republicans worship to the exclusion of all else. They’re like vultures circling a dying animal so they can cash in on the downfall of our government. We simply can’t let them have that opportunity.
Thank you for this essay, Steve. Hillary Clinton's loss to the career criminal knucklehead will echo always as a catastrophic event in all of human history. That this eminently qualified, prepared, intelligent woman lost to such a despicable "know-nothing", who has led the world toward chaos and cataclysm, is nearly an unfathomable event. In the 70 years of my lifetime, I can think of no president who was as qualified as she. To this day, there is a magnet on my refrigerator received after a donation to her 2016 campaign, "Madam President". It saddens me every time I notice it as I think of what might have been. I am glad she contributes still.
Every word of this.
Amen. She was prescient from the day she graduated from Wellesley.
Thank you so much for elevating this interview. I wish millions of people would read it. She didn’t say anything I didn’t already realize, but she understood what was happening at a time when most of us didn’t have a clue, myself included. I can’t imagine how maddening it must have been for her. Never in my wildest dreams did it occur to me that Trump would win the election. But as we now know, he didn’t win the election legitimately and it’s too late to do anything about it now.
There’s no question in my mind that we are
in a civil war. What astonishes me are the senators & reps. who were late in realizing it and a few who still don’t understand the gravity of the situation. I also think many main stream media and corporate execs don’t get it either. Msm reporting almost always favors the GOP and Trump and for what? For a party & a president that puts the welfare of big businesses and industries above the American people. The scariest aspect is msm doesn’t think through where this government dysfunction is headed.
If republicans become the majority and there’s a republican president I guarantee that although they might think it’s exciting to look forward to the money they can rake in, it won’t be that way for long. Dictators are capricious and laws can’t be depended upon in a dictatorship. As Trump has shown us, it’s all about doing “favors.” Msm won’t be any more safe from the whims of a capricious dictator than we are.
In addition, from what I’ve read & know about the economy, corporations & msm in favor of Trump & his ilk will find their profits start to diminish if the GOP takes over. Why? Because their profits depend on the middle class having the buying power it’s had since WWII and that will be long gone.
If republicans take over they will do away with all regulations, discontinue subsidized healthcare, including medicare/medicaid, they’ll privatize the post office & social security, which means we we will very likely have to pay out of our pockets for someone to manage/invest our social security income. Further, they want to privatize all public schools grades K-8, which means our children will only get the education we can afford to pay for.
Those are just a few things they will change. There will be much more based on the libertarian philosophy of governance. Essentially the goal is to do away with the middle class. What would that mean for corporations in general? It means people will have much less discretionary income, and that means most people won’t be able to afford the goods and services corporations are selling. Do you think they’ve thought that through? I don’t.
Then, there’s the spectre of violence. As many engineered government takeovers in the past have shown us, the revolutionaries/ criminals forcing massive government change think they can control the outcome, keeping violence to a minimum, but when push comes to shove, they invariably can’t control either the violence or the ultimate outcome.
One more thing. This massive change has been funded by the Kochs, Mercers & Steve Bannon, among others, and the Mercers are religious fanatics who intend to write a new Constitution that turns America into a theocracy. Why would others like the Kochs be in favor of that? History has shown that religion has been a great way to maintain control over large groups of people. But our current civilization is much different than those previous Western European civilizations. What worked then isn’t likely to work now, here in America because religious control requires an uneducated, uninformed population. Although our education standards have diminished over the years
they haven’t diminished to the point required for a theocracy to survive.
Greed has become ingrained in our culture and money is what republicans worship to the exclusion of all else. They’re like vultures circling a dying animal so they can cash in on the downfall of our government. We simply can’t let them have that opportunity.
I am not a Hillary fan but the clarity of her words is bracing.
Yes.
And you are absolutely right. And so was she.
I will repeat this phrase until the day I die: Hillary was right.