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Why Trump Winning the Republican Nomination is Good for American Democracy

By Michael Krieger
Wednesday May 4, 2016 at 10:14 am



While it might sound strange, a coronation of Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary will mark the end of the party as we know it. There’s been a lot written about the “Sanders surge,” with much of it revolving around Hillary Clinton’s extreme personal weakness as a candidate. While this is indisputable, it’s also a convenient way for the status quo to exempt itself from fault and discount genuine grassroots anger. I’m of the view that Sanders’ support is more about people liking him than them disliking Hillary, particularly when it comes to registered Democrats. He’s not merely seen as the “least bad choice.” People really do like him.

The Sanders appeal is twofold. He is seen as unusually honest and consistent for someone who’s held elected office for much of his life, plus he advocates a refreshingly anti-establishment view on core issues that matter to an increasing number of Americans. These include militarism, Wall Street bailouts, a two-tiered justice system, the prohibitive cost of college education, healthcare insecurity and a “rigged economy.” While Hillary is being forced to pay lip service to these issues, everybody knows she doesn’t mean a word of it. She means it less than Obama meant it in 2008, and Obama really didn’t mean it.


– From the post: It’s Not Just the GOP – The Democratic Party is Also Imploding ( http://tinyurl.com/zofw4ck )

Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have done America a great deal of good. By running from the political fringes, they have shattered status quo taboos and exposed the two party political system for the monumental sham it is.

Whether you like either one of them is irrelevant. The truth about how undemocratic our elections actually are, and the disturbing overlap when it comes to establishment Republicans and Democrats needed exposing, and that’s exactly what’s happened this election season. Personally, I wanted to see Trump vs. Sanders in the general election. I think the public deserved two non-mainstream choices for President for once in their lives, and such a match up would have provided two distinct non status quo visions for the future. That said, Trump vs. Clinton is the second best option.

The process of awakening that’s been happening across the electorate this campaign season is in large part due to the presence of Trump and Sanders, and this awakening is far more important than who wins in November. As Edward Snowden was quoted saying in yesterday’s piece, A Whistleblower Manifesto: http://tinyurl.com/hhvs97g

Fundamentally, in an open society, change has to flow from the bottom to the top.

He’s right. If you want fundamental, long-term change consistent with Constitutional principles, it needs to come from an informed citizenry. America has not had a remotely informed citizenry in over a generation. The divide and conquer tactics of both establishment parties have proven tremendously successful in pulling the wool over everybody’s eyes and convincing them that there’s actually a real difference, when in reality both parties maintain the exact same position on a vast majority of the nation’s key issues. These include:

1) Support for interventionist wars of imperialism abroad.

2) An embrace of cronyism and corruption throughout the public and private sector.

3) A total pandering to Wall Street and support for taxpayer bailouts without accountability.

4) Support for the inhumane failure that is the war on the drugs.

5) Support for fake free trade deals that are actually corporate giveaways to insiders and donors.

6) Support for the unconstitutional and unaccountable mass surveillance of the American public.

I could go on, but you get the point. The interesting thing about the 2016 election is that millions of Americans are finally coming around to rejecting the policies listed above. The status quo, of course, has not; and therein lies the status quo’s problem.

Continues here:

http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2016/05/04/why-trump-winning-the-republican-nomination-is-good-for-american-democracy/