The Kingmakers
Back in 2008, Barack Obama was a political nobody with so many skeletons in his closet that he should’ve gotten nowhere near the white house. Likewise, Hillary Clinton is a manufactured somebody with so many dead bodies in her closet that she and Bill should be on their way to the big house, not the white house. Except for one thing, the mainstream media. If they did their jobs, even a little, neither would be among the most powerful, influential people on earth. But they are. And for that, the 4th estate are primarily to blame.
There is another group, however, who are every bit as complicit in this crime. That being the people. Meaning the nation as a whole. Or, at least, the left half of the country. On the other hand, there’s more than enough guilt to go around.
There was George W. Bush, who gave us a couple of wars at the behest of his elders. “Pacify the radical countries in the Middle East” was their mantra. You’d think they were too young to remember Vietnam, which they certainly weren’t. That alone, should’ve given them pause, but it didn’t. Nation building, when you’re dealing with nations that don’t want to be built, is no easy task. In fact, it’s damn near impossible. It can be profitable, though. I’m not suggesting that the Bush’s, both father and son, were motivated by individual gain. I don’t think they were. Cronyism doesn’t have to be so starkly and greedily motivated. It’s more a case of birds of a feather flocking together. People who share a common world-view, is more like it. At least, that may’ve been the case with the Bush family, who didn’t need the money, unlike the Clintons. Let me be clear, that doesn’t, in any way, absolve them of their responsibility for their actions.
The Clintons, by comparison, function less like a family of well-connected elites, and more like a crime cartel. Get in their way and you’re likely to end up with a bullet in your back like Seth Rich. Either way, the outcome is similar.
The elites, the people who drive the nation from behind the scenes, are the real kingmakers. Because no one makes it without big, heaping piles of money at their beck and call. So, it doesn’t really matter whether it’s a well-connected, old money family like the Bush clan, or an avaricious clan of Nuevo-riche, Sothern crackers, like the Clintons. Even an African American with very few meaningful credentials and an open affection for Karl Marx, is OK as a candidate, as long as he agrees with the kingmakers on the essentials and doesn't interfere with their profits.
The kingmakers aren’t about national boundaries or national sovereignty or even political ideology. That’s too bourgeois. To small minded. Think big. Think global. That’s how kingmakers think. It’s why national sovereignty has become a code word for racism. Open the borders, tear down national identity, and utopia will be around the bend. That’s the bullshit being slung. That such ideas are utterly incompatible with America’s constitutional republic doesn’t matter. The constitution is nothing more than a compelling grouping of words, to the kingmakers.
Remarkably, there is one monkey with a wrench that threatens it all, and that is Donald J. Trump. He’s too high-profile to kill. Besides, no one gave him a shot in hell, which is why the kingmakers weren’t worried. Because they were sure that he would implode on his own. It hasn’t happened, though. Because Donald Trump is riding a massive wave of anger that keeps pushing him forward, and may very well push him all the way into the white house.
If it does happen, the epitaph on the kingmaker’s headstone will read “They got too damned greedy!” That includes the media, who couldn’t resist a good story, so they swarmed on Donald Trump like locusts, reporting everything he said and did. And, in the end, their voracious greed killed them.
At least, that’s the hope. Soon to be a reality.
Mark Magula
There is another group, however, who are every bit as complicit in this crime. That being the people. Meaning the nation as a whole. Or, at least, the left half of the country. On the other hand, there’s more than enough guilt to go around.
There was George W. Bush, who gave us a couple of wars at the behest of his elders. “Pacify the radical countries in the Middle East” was their mantra. You’d think they were too young to remember Vietnam, which they certainly weren’t. That alone, should’ve given them pause, but it didn’t. Nation building, when you’re dealing with nations that don’t want to be built, is no easy task. In fact, it’s damn near impossible. It can be profitable, though. I’m not suggesting that the Bush’s, both father and son, were motivated by individual gain. I don’t think they were. Cronyism doesn’t have to be so starkly and greedily motivated. It’s more a case of birds of a feather flocking together. People who share a common world-view, is more like it. At least, that may’ve been the case with the Bush family, who didn’t need the money, unlike the Clintons. Let me be clear, that doesn’t, in any way, absolve them of their responsibility for their actions.
The Clintons, by comparison, function less like a family of well-connected elites, and more like a crime cartel. Get in their way and you’re likely to end up with a bullet in your back like Seth Rich. Either way, the outcome is similar.
The elites, the people who drive the nation from behind the scenes, are the real kingmakers. Because no one makes it without big, heaping piles of money at their beck and call. So, it doesn’t really matter whether it’s a well-connected, old money family like the Bush clan, or an avaricious clan of Nuevo-riche, Sothern crackers, like the Clintons. Even an African American with very few meaningful credentials and an open affection for Karl Marx, is OK as a candidate, as long as he agrees with the kingmakers on the essentials and doesn't interfere with their profits.
The kingmakers aren’t about national boundaries or national sovereignty or even political ideology. That’s too bourgeois. To small minded. Think big. Think global. That’s how kingmakers think. It’s why national sovereignty has become a code word for racism. Open the borders, tear down national identity, and utopia will be around the bend. That’s the bullshit being slung. That such ideas are utterly incompatible with America’s constitutional republic doesn’t matter. The constitution is nothing more than a compelling grouping of words, to the kingmakers.
Remarkably, there is one monkey with a wrench that threatens it all, and that is Donald J. Trump. He’s too high-profile to kill. Besides, no one gave him a shot in hell, which is why the kingmakers weren’t worried. Because they were sure that he would implode on his own. It hasn’t happened, though. Because Donald Trump is riding a massive wave of anger that keeps pushing him forward, and may very well push him all the way into the white house.
If it does happen, the epitaph on the kingmaker’s headstone will read “They got too damned greedy!” That includes the media, who couldn’t resist a good story, so they swarmed on Donald Trump like locusts, reporting everything he said and did. And, in the end, their voracious greed killed them.
At least, that’s the hope. Soon to be a reality.
Mark Magula