We are truly facing an existential threat.
From the outside, we have enemies in the Middle East that would just as soon kill us as look at us. And they pale in comparison to a belligerent nuclear-armed North Korea, and a resurgent imperialistic Russia.
But our more immediate existential threat comes from within. And it's coming from both major political parties.
I've already expressed how dangerous I believe Donald Trump would be as President. And I believe a solid plurality of people feel as strongly about that as I do.
He's shown himself to be the embodiment of every negative characteristic I could conjure up if I were trying to write a parody of the worst presidential candidate in history.
Yet, this morning's NBC/Survey Monkey poll shows him within four points of Hillary Clinton in a
four-way race, and the gap is closing.
How can this be? Trump's numbers should be crumbling.
It's because if Donald Trump were not in the race, I'd be describing Hillary Clinton the same way I just described him. She's a very close second.
Trump is a forgone conclusion in this race. He hijacked the GOP and 14 million of its extremely volatile and angry core electorate.
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| Nice of the Democratic party to at least let us put on swim suits as they run us off the cliff. |
But the Democrats have options with Hillary--the most reviled candidate the blue party has ever nominated.
And it seems that with every passing day the dung she's in gets deeper.
Party leaders could influence the moribund candidate to resign and then replace her with someone else...like Joe Biden.
So, why does the party stand by her so stubbornly?
Just follow the money.
In Mafia terms, she'd be known as an 'earner'. She's raised tens of millions for other Democratic candidates.
And in politics, especially since Citizens United, money talks.
Even a breakout candidate with popular ideas who led a formidable political movement of millions, but who had shallow pockets (aka Bernie Sanders), walks.
So, we get Hillary Clinton. And we now know, thanks to the Russian email hack of the DNC, that the party helped make it happen by putting in the fix.
Come November, we seem headed toward a sickening binary choice.
Fortunately, there is still some time. It is only August, after all, and we haven't yet reached peak political season, which typically begins on Labor Day.
The same NBC/SM survey showed Libertarian Gary Johnson holding steady at 11%. He needs just 4% more to appear on the national debate stage on September 26th, which even he says is his only chance of being a genuine option.
Will we have a three-way contest?
My gut tells me, no. And if the Democrats stick with Hillary, which I believe they will, they'll be marching us off a cliff.
That leaves you-know-who as king of the hill.
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