Paranoia About Trump's Constituency

The "coastal elites" hate Donald Trump, at least the ones who control the mainstream media do. Why?

Trump: Al Sharpton for Middle America?

I don't think the man Trump really poses much of a threat to the status quo or the establishment (the coastal elites [The Sea People]). On the other hand, his constituency does pose a serious threat to the status quo. The tens of millions, or maybe hundreds of millions of Americans in middle America--the scorned flyover country--are a threat. When they wake up to the fraud of the financial system, and its symbiotic enablers in DC, they can just shrug and shed it overnight as they have in the past. The paper wealth of crony billionaires is actually dwarfed (I am guessing) by the real wealth of all the real property, and potential labor, expertise, and energy of this mass of productive people. That mass of people can actually just reset the financial system to their benefit and wipe out the wealth of those currently on top.

Trump shows that these people can be organized relatively easily. He also shows that they're not receptive to the old methods of control--the mass media facade has cracked. The various bogeymen that are trotted out to scare them don't work as well anymore. Repeatedly calling Trump's supporters Nazis for example has probably succeeded more in un-demonizing the Nazis than it has in peeling away his constituents to Hillary Clinton and the people she represents (deep state DC, and the NYC financial mafia).

Similarly, attempting to whip up racial strife via Black Lives Matter, or by race baiting in the mainstream media seems to be backfiring. The US is effectively segregated. Angry black people in city centers aren't much of a threat to white people living in suburbia or rural America. Identity politics, rather than dividing and conquering the United States, has possibly succeeded in prodding white people into playing the same game.

However, in a modern nation, a nation of immigrants, identity politics--white identity politics specifically--is very diluted. It might only serve to make people think about their self interest--of their family and community rather than their nonsense racial identity. Similarly, Trump is just a step along a path toward organizing against DC and NYC. He's tapped into the emotional reaction against the status quo, but provides no real alternative to it. He's a figurehead.

If Hillary Clinton wins, I think there's a greater chance for real political cracks to open up in the United States. The Trump constituency, and others who dislike the establishment will start to organize.

If Trump wins, I think the status quo, the establishment remain at the helm for four or eight more years, as his constituents will look to him and the US political and financial system for change, rather than changing it themselves.

Jeffersonian Democracy versus Empire

As the election season rolls on, Donald Trump is pulling far ahead in the republican primary race. The reactions to Trump and his supporters are visceral and consistently laced with fear and paranoia. The media attempts to paint him and his supporters, at best, as stupid and at worst as Nazis. They roll out his ancestral last name, Drumpf or Trumpf to stir up associations with Germany (never mind people of German ancestry are the single largest ethnic bloc in the USA), and repeatedly cite "1933" and the rise of Hitler to sound erudite.

The media reaction shows that in the USA, there is an us and a them rather than a unified country. The "mainstream us", that is, the people who are able to publish opinions through corporate media, feels threatened by Trump, or maybe more by his supporters, who are people who have been on the losing end of almost every action the US has taken for decades as the country became a full blown Empire. Conversely, the average mainstreamer is a direct beneficiary and servant of the Empire.

Finally, after being shafted for decades, the average citizen is at or past their breaking point. They realize something is wrong with the United States, but don't know any alternative to the imperial status quo. Donald Trump serves as a lightning rod or a focal point for their discontent, but it's unlikely they'll find satisfaction through the US electoral process.

I think the United States has come full circle. The American Counterrevolution ran its course. It's stale. In its infancy, the US was a distinct, opposing force to the corrupt cesspool of European great game politics and its parasitic courtiers. Now the imperial US, specifically DC and the financial center of NYC, are in the center of that cesspool and the average American is just fuel for the creeps who fight in that muck, or is a source to fund the idiot schemes of grifting parasites like the neocons.

Empire's Creepy Children

Jeffersonian Democracy serves as a counterpoint to the age old, endlessly blood hungry hag Empire and her creepy children. The idea of Jeffersonian Democracy is a free yeomanry will not be pawns for Empire, and in fact, will actively oppose it or snuff it out with force, not only because Empire is evil, but it's inimical to their simple self interest. The revolutionary spirit still burns in the heart of America, but it's uninformed.

The American revolution was kindled by Enlightenment thinkers. The best known provided moral and mechanical arguments to launch a revolution and to structure a nation. I see it as part of an age old task: recovering what was lost. The task as outlined in literature, movies, TV series, is to help lead people out of the labyrinth, out of the underworld, and to help reconnect with the Sun, and with the wilds of their imagination.