I don’t know when it happened. Maybe it was 8 years ago when Obama won his
first presidential election. Maybe it
was when Bill Clinton was in the Whitehouse.
Maybe it was right after the last election. Whenever it happened our shadow government, “the owners” as Carlin
called them, decided that Hillary Clinton was going to be
the president of the United States. Full
stop. Maybe the decision was made at
each of these time points, but just with more resolution as to the timing and
method. The back room details can’t be
known, but the public process can be observed and all the folks with money and power are working together to anoint her.
After looking at the process and outcome of the Democratic
primary, I think most people have accepted that to be the case, at least as far
as the Democratic Party was concerned. What some people
might not realize is that the Republicans, particularly in the person of Mitt
Romney have been working towards the same goal. This may seem like an odd thing to say, but
let me lay out the story for you that started to form in my mind when the Republicans
were down to three quasi-viable candidates, but became absolutely clear when
Romney gave his speech rejecting Donald Trump.
Since the true origins of this sort of thing are never
visible to schmoes dependent on internet news stories, one of the earlier parts
of this story was Romney’s decision to have one of his campaign funding
summits to cultivate contacts
between GOP presidential hopefuls, party officials, and funders. http://beta.deseretnews.com/article/865630682/GOP-2016-field-still-scattered-after-Mitt-Romney-summit.html?pg=all It was a sort of like he was playing match-maker
for a political party that didn’t have a strong personality that could
rally the voters and remain in the party mainstream. Romney and the RNC gave no serious effort to narrowing
the field and the result was a long list of possible, but unsatisfactory
candidates, each with a hodge podge of strengths and drawbacks so as to
thoroughly divide the voters. Whatever
was going on in the secret meetings, the most abecedarian of mistakes had been
made. Everyone knows that you divide then conquer, and yet here the Republican
leadership had successfully divided the party themselves.
Somewhere in the midst of all this Donald Trump joined the
panel and began flexing his reality T. V. muscles in the debates to draw the
media’s shocked attention. This of
course won him tremendous free campaigning, while the more reasonable
candidates with greater potential to attract the growing number of independent
voters quietly dropped out of the race one-by-one. A telling event regarding the strategy was
Bill Clinton’s conversation with Stephen Colbert on Late Night where he
suggested that Trump’s run would be a strategic boon for Hillary’s
campaign. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lC-U5xiFjs Here was a candidate that could stir up
enough interest to take the primary, but would be too scandalous to win the
final.
With the increasing absurdity and scariness of Trump’s
antics and popularity, Mitt Romney called a press conference to put a stop to
this evil candidate once and for all.
However, in his speech he did very much the opposite. Romney’s failure to endorse another candidate
guaranteed that the voters for Trump’s competition would remain divided among
themselves. Thus by rejecting Trump with
his words, Romney guaranteed him the nomination with his actions. Round two: divide and conquer. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/04/us/politics/mitt-romney-speech.html?_r=0
(One of the relevant bits comes up at around 5:22.)
Without getting into the details of the shadiness, the
manufactured consent, that got Hillary the Democrat nomination, voters in both
parties have been clearly left
terribly unsatisfied with the candidates they’ve been gifted, except for of
course a few radical weirdos. So where
can the Bernie-bots go to get their peace-mongering candidate? Where can conservatives go that at least
tries to pretend to be mentally balanced?
Gary Johnson, we turn our lonely eyes to you.
Socially liberal, fiscally conservative: this is a platform
that, in spite of the way it irritates many philosophically pure libertarians
(those folks can never be satisfied), it is in fact a much better match for the
actual views of real live Americans than the “major party” contenders offer,
and the Libertarians are already on the ballot in all 50 states. Not only that, the polling numbers appear to
be creeping towards qualifying the candidate for the major election debates,
the real chance to show the American people how much he agrees with them. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/2016-by-the-numbers-will-gary-johnson-disrupt-clinton-vs-trump-race/ As it is, a growing number of GOP politicians
are coming to endorse Johnson’s candidacy.
https://alibertarianfuture.com/libertarians/representatives-from-ten-states-have-endorsed-gary-johnson-for-president/
The chance of a win is still low, but a lot of people are
counting on the possibility of pushing the election onto Congress as a way of
protesting the corruption of our system.
It is in this context that for the third time we get to see the
political right divide and conquer its voters to ensure Hillary her presidency,
and again with close connections to Mitt Romney. This third division depends on the
peculiarities of the Mormon voting bloc.
Aside from the state where he was governor, Utah is one of the
few places where Johnson has a strong chance of capturing the electoral
votes. Between Romney’s
anti-endorsement, Trump’s crass behavior, and the vague threat Trump presents
to religious freedom in the U.S., Mormons
are largely in the lurch, looking for a third party option. Johnson offers a good option for the
staunchly red state due to his fiscal conservatism, small-government mind-set,
and respect for the Constitution.
According to Mormonism, the
Constitution is a divinely inspired document, not quite scripture, but more
than a merely human product. As it turns
out this respect for the Constitution is an important part of the context that
is being leveraged by Romney affiliates to cut Johnson’s chances of threatening
a Hillary win.
There’s a prophecy among Mormons that a time would come when
the Constitution will “hang from a thread” and that it will only be supported
by Mormon Elders. Because of this
prophecy there is a large number of Mormons who, given the chance, will always
vote for a Mormon candidate. Throughout
the primary campaigns such people regularly made Facebook posts expressing
their hopes that Romney would change his mind and run. Of course a Romney run seems ridiculously
improbable now, but such voters have received their Mormon candidate anyway. http://archive.sltrib.com/story.php?ref=/lds/ci_6055090
Evan McMullin, whose exact ties to Romney aren’t totally
clear from the information I’ve gathered, is at the very least being funded by
some of the same groups that funded Romney’s campaign. In any case, he’s got the squeaky clean
Mormon image, and makes his talking points hitting all the right tone to sound
like a moderate Republican / local Mormon church leader, so his appeal to the
Mormon voter is totally predictable. But
for the most part, as a candidate, he came pretty much out of nowhere. His particular “nowhere” should, with about
two seconds of reasonable thought, send up about a hundred red flags in the
minds of anyone who wants to vote against the kind of governmental corruption that
Hillary represents.
Specifically, his
primary claim to qualification for the presidency is his work in the CIA and
later as a policy director for House Republicans. This is clearly a guy who is enmeshed in the
military industrial complex that is working so fervently to ensure that the
U.S. is never not at war again, and that the Middle-east will never become
stable enough for self-determination and peace.
And to add icing to this he also spent some time working for the
Investment Banking Division at Goldman Sachs, so you can add that to his
probable entaglements. In essence,
except for something like Obamacare, you can pretty well imagine the
far-fetched presidency of Evan McMullin would be the same thing as a Clinton
presidency in terms of policy. And of
course the press seem to be on board, because whenever they talk about McMullin
they magically forget that there are already two third-party candidates with
much higher chances for challenging the Hillary-Trump matrix and pretend Gary
Johnson doesn’t exist. “Look here
disaffected Republicans! This is your
only guy!”
