The following is from a (overly long) comment I offered on the MoA (Moon of Alabama) blog this morning (as user name Scorpion). Am somewhat reluctantly willing to entertain the possibility that this latest political development could prove significant.
Posted by: Ново З | Aug 25 2024 23:07 utc | 49
“..As to DJT being lame duck: yes, but maybe Bobby gets his 5% this November and wins as an Independent for next eight years. . ..Posted by: Scorpion | Aug 25 2024 21:38 utc | 45
Do you write more than you read, Scorpion? RFKjr has withdrawn from the election.
You are wrong; read more. He is withdrawing his name from the ballot, on which citizens record their vote, in the ten main swing, or battleground, states wherein a few cities, most controlled by the DNC machine, often determine the national result. He remains on the ballot in the remaining 40 states wherein if he gets 5% of the national tally his candidacy (or Party?) qualifies for significant government funding next election and will get different treatment (perhaps) from the media etc. It is a significant hurdle.
Apparently he and Trump have been talking of a Unity government for some time, indeed they started in 2016 but Trump finked out as he became entirely outmanoeuvred in DC as many above have noted.
Have slowly been adjusting my habitual good versus evil, right vs wrong, filter over the years and come to the conclusion that both individually and collectively most are a combination. We all have positives and negatives and I now think the same of Trump and others. Barring the whole thing is kayfabe – which often provides the most reasonable explanation – I think Trump is a combination of bad and good ideas/policy aspirations, some of which he is more able to push forward more than others (and some of which are beneficial, others not). Most of the Establishment didn’t want The Wall, for example, but he was within about 6 months of completing most of the key areas when he left office in 2021. He had to classify it as a national emergency and use funds allocated by Congress to the military in order to finance it, and as typical with DJT the builder, it ended up costing less than most had forecast and went up fast once he had got through the many hurdles in the Courts and Congress.
A left-right Unity government in principle has the potential to change the Uniparty grasp on power in the States. Chances are that everything Honzo and suzan and others say to the contrary is correct, but again I think there are some positives in the mix, and not just aspirational. Bobby, clearly a troubled soul in many ways, also has a solid track record going up against major corporations and winning, and with verifiable results to boot, as the Hudson river demonstrates which in turn spawned a conservation association that is making a real-world difference, now world wide. He knows how to fight the Big Boys and Get Things Done, no small thing.
Trump also, to build buildings, has to go through sometimes 10-20 years of red tape and litigation involving not only competitors and local crime cartels (when in NYC for example), but all levels of government, municipal, State and Federal, wherein are many enemies as well as friends. Many times he failed but many times he succeeded and generally his buildings are of good quality and often quite interesting. By all accounts his Post Office to world class hotel conversion in DC was excellent and this is typical of his work. That work involves patience, tenacity and navigating through shark-infested waters to end up actually Getting Something Done. Most of his critics would not have the chops to build a single skyscraper in NYC or luxury golf course etc. and yet they look down on him scornfully as no more than a blowhard. He is that, but not only. Many working people, especially men, see him as one of their own; because he actually is. People are so used to everything being entirely phony these days that it is hard to perceive when something not entirely phony presents itself. Again: a mix.
So I am hopeful that if this union has legs, they might actually start to shift the paradigm. One theme emerging, which I think has some truth to it, is that ‘it’s not left versus right anymore but reasonable versus crazy’. There is a Youtube with Bret Weinstein and PBD
that has an interesting conversation, IMO. Bret is positive, and he was one of the leading alternative US intellectuals who went down to the Darien Gap to see for himself what was happening and came back to report on Tucker’s widely watched independent platform. He wants his country to do well, morally as well as politically, and is putting his shoulder to the wheel to help make it happen. He finds the alignment ‘monumental’, the biggest thing potentially since 1776. That might be over the top but think: if ordinary Americans can capture the middle and relegate the Uniparty Dems and GOP to the fringe, they really might have a shot at Draining the Swamp once they get the WH and enough votes in Congress to move things through. The only way this can happen is with a veritable landslide in November. Ideally they should get NY and California and just about everything else. This is what is being proposed.
Yes, the PTB are deeply corrupt and quite powerful. But they are not the sum of all in the mix. Can the American system actually accommodate the wishes of ordinary, largely decent We the People or has the entire thing been captured by Bad Actors as so many have gradually ‘woken up’ to realize?
I think there is a mix in the mix, though one never knows if one is not being ‘fooled again’.
