The
Republican Party is fractured because our American national identity in 2016 is
fractured. In American history only one
other fracture can be compared to our present state and that was the civil war between
the states of 1861. That war was fought
to prevent a complete fracturing of America into two governments and two armies
separated by the economic issue of slavery.
The political leadership of the southern states demanded an economic
model that required a large poor underclass to support the privilege of the relatively
few wealthy.
Today
America is also fracturing on the same fissure, there is again a war like
atmosphere between those who have a stake in this economy and those who have
none. Slavery is gone but the economic
bondage of the underclass has ballooned in the last twenty years. Half of Americans are making less than thirty
thousand dollars a year and they know they are politically powerless. Good paying jobs for Americans and a future
for our children is the only real issue that matters to the underclass. Instead, our politicians trade away jobs and crush
our children with trillions of dollars of national debt that will consume future
federal revenue when interest rates rise.
These are war
times, the political leadership of both parties, sometimes called the
establishment, are solidly on the side of the few economically powerful. The establishment politicians fund their
careers by taking money from the Wall Street corporations, the too big to fail
banks and the stock market sensitive folks. These contributions obligate the politician to
support the national policies that benefit the wealthy few. The only critical issues of concern to the
wealthy few are free trade and free immigration, both policies give the wealthy
few cheap labor benefiting big business and thereby inflate the stock
market. All politicians are of the
establishment and want only to manage the decline of America on behalf of the
wealthy few, it is that simple.
2016 is
different only because of the candidacy of Donald Trump, he is the Lone Ranger on
a white horse riding into the fight against political and economic injustice
perpetrated upon the American underclass.
Mr. Trump is the ultimate outsider, the nonpolitician who only promises
to apply commonsense to every issue and vehemently defend the interests of the
underclass. Mr. Trump gets it, he says what the underclass wants to hear and
has the courage to stand up against all the political elites of both political
parties. The fact that he is not a
polished politician able to spin all the accepted political lingo is his
greatest strength, not a weakness as his opposition claims.
When he
began his campaign, Mr. Trump only wished to be treated fairly by the
Republican establishment. This was
probably a naïve request but it was more or less adhered to by the overconfident
establishment through December of 2015, expecting the Donald to fade away. Instead, the Trump bandwagon took on a
winning character and the stock market reacted with a dip of 2000 points in
January 2016, the donor class woke up and demanded that the Republican party
stop Donald Trump.
In the
following two months few if any person running for the presidency in the
history of America has been so viciously attacked by the other Republican
candidates, the Democratic candidates, the left wing stooges, the pontiff, the
former president of Mexico as well as the President of the United States. And what is their grip? Mr. Trump is not a polished issue wise politician
who can be controlled by money. Well,
praises be!
G. Goslaw
Landers, CA
