[This is the fourth in a series. The beginning is at this link]
A partial answer
In the first segment in this series I posed the rhetorical question about how long it takes for people to agree that I am right. In a post earlier this year I said that you can have capitalism without democracy but the reverse is not true. Hence destroying capitalism destroys both it and democracy. Last month, in a piece explaining why many large US donors support one Presidential candidate, we find this gem:
“Kathryn Wylde, the president of the Partnership for New York City, an organization that represents many of the city’s C.E.O.s, said to Politico that some Republican business leaders had told her that ‘the threat to capitalism from the Democrats is more concerning than the threat to democracy from Trump.’”
So there!
An easy question
But one party has corralled the Dufus Vote. The intelligence of the majority has been dropping for years. Reversing decades of pathetic government schooling in the 16 weeks remaining between now and November 5 is a daunting task. With millions of voters who can be led around by their mask, what should we expect in November? Given history as our guide the answer is simple: More of the same.
The second biggest risk our nation faces to its continued existence is political risk. The biggest risk is not understanding the second biggest.
It doesn’t matter
Electing the right candidate to preserve our Republic is pretty hard when neither of the two candidates offered is capable of doing that.
The same crowd that pulled off the COVID fraud is again hard at work behind the curtain. Given the June 27th debate, a late inning surprise is less of a surprise but no less late. One or both of the current candidates not the final candidate on the November ballot seems pretty likely. Remember, the name of the game is to engineer a surprise in late October that the voters do not have time to fully understand. The smoke-filled rooms need someone they can quickly polish up, swap for the current drumstick, then limit the incoming attacks from the opposition over the few remaining days of the campaign. Don’t look for that to happen until the 59th minute of the eleventh hour. Maybe this year’s October surprise will occur in early November.
Pay attention to the dates
The Democratic Convention is August 19-22. Ballots must be printed shortly thereafter. Ohio has an August 7th ballot printing deadline. Look for at least one “slide-in” candidate before the printing presses must roll.
The electorate has been further dumbed-down for four more years since the last time. Four more years of watching cat videos on YouTube, people now enjoy being hoodwinked.
A Top Ten List
Let the data talk to you
Visit the Iowa Electronic Markets and scroll down to the Presidential Winner-Take-All graph. There you will see real people betting real (albeit small) money on the outcome of the election. Better than polls. You learn more by watching what people do than by listening to what they say.
The Wild Card
Watching France is sort of fun. They have had a socialist government for a long time and it seems to be about to endure a well-deserved drubbing. Britain, not so much, as they re-embrace the command-and-control politics Maggie Thatcher pried them off of years ago. It won’t work this time, either. People never learn.
Maybe we can look at everything as a cycle and hope we have nothing worse.
[Next week: The perfect candidate]
Oops, the French have apparently just veered even farther left!
Sadly, many of the votes or ballots will have been deposited before the October surprise.