One name AL gore. On Oct 23, 2016 9:51 AM, "MJ" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > October 20, 2016 > > *An Establishment in Panic *By Patrick J. Buchanan > > Pressed by moderator Chris Wallace as to whether he would accept defeat > should Hillary Clinton win the election, Donald Trump replied, “I will tell > you at the time. I’ll keep you in suspense.” > > “That’s horrifying,” said Clinton, setting off a chain reaction on the > post-debate panels with talking heads falling all over one another in > purple-faced anger, outrage and disbelief. > > “Disqualifying!” was the cry on Clinton cable. > > “Trump Won’t Say If He Will Accept Election Results,” wailed The New York > Times. “Trump Won’t Vow to Honor Results,” ran the banner in The Washington > Post. > > But what do these chattering classes and establishment bulletin boards > think the Donald is going to do if he falls short of 270 electoral votes? > > Lead a Coxey’s Army on Washington and burn it down as British General > Robert Ross did in August 1814, while “Little Jemmy” Madison fled on > horseback out the Brookeville Road? > > What explains the hysteria of the establishment? > > In a word, fear. > > The establishment is horrified at the Donald’s defiance because, deep > within its soul, it fears that the people for whom Trump speaks no longer > accept its political legitimacy or moral authority. > > It may rule and run the country, and may rig the system through mass > immigration and a mammoth welfare state so that Middle America is never > again able to elect one of its own. But that establishment, disconnected > from the people it rules, senses, rightly, that it is unloved and even > detested. > > Having fixed the future, the establishment finds half of the country > looking upon it with the same sullen contempt that our Founding Fathers > came to look upon the overlords Parliament sent to rule them. > > Establishment panic is traceable to another fear: Its ideology, its > political religion, is seen by growing millions as a golden calf, a > 20th-century god that has failed. > > Trump is “talking down our democracy,” said a shocked Clinton. > > After having expunged Christianity from our public life and public square, > our establishment installed “democracy” as the new deity, at whose altars > we should all worship. And so our schools began to teach. > > Half a millennia ago, missionaries and explorers set sail from Spain, > England and France to bring Christianity to the New World. > > Today, Clintons, Obamas and Bushes send soldiers and secularist tutors to > “establish democracy” among the “lesser breeds without the Law.” > > Unfortunately, the natives, once democratized, return to their roots and > vote for Hezbollah, Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, using democratic > processes and procedures to re-establish their true God. > > And Allah is no democrat. > > By suggesting he might not accept the results of a “rigged election” Trump > is committing an unpardonable sin. But this new cult, this devotion to a > new holy trinity of diversity, democracy and equality, is of recent vintage > and has shallow roots. > > For none of the three diversity, equality, democracy is to be found in > the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Federalist Papers or the Pledge > of Allegiance. In the pledge, we are a republic. > > When Ben Franklin, emerging from the Philadelphia convention, was asked by > a woman what kind of government they had created, he answered, “A republic, > if you can keep it.” > > Among many in the silent majority, Clintonian democracy is not an > improvement upon the old republic; it is the corruption of it. > > Consider: Six months ago, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, the Clinton > bundler, announced that by executive action he would convert 200,000 > convicted felons into eligible voters by November. > > If that is democracy, many will say, to hell with it. > > And if felons decide the electoral votes of Virginia, and Virginia decides > who is our next U.S. president, are we obligated to honor that election? > > In 1824, Gen. Andrew Jackson ran first in popular and electoral votes. > But, short of a majority, the matter went to the House. > > There, Speaker Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams delivered the presidency > to Adams and Adams made Clay secretary of state, putting him on the path > to the presidency that had been taken by Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and > Adams himself. > > Were Jackson’s people wrong to regard as a “corrupt bargain” the deal that > robbed the general of the presidency? > > The establishment also recoiled in horror from Milwaukee Sheriff Dave > Clarke’s declaration that it is now “torches and pitchforks time.” > > Yet, some of us recall another time, when Supreme Court Justice William O. > Douglas wrote in “Points of Rebellion”: > > “We must realize that today’s Establishment is the new George III. Whether > it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If it does, the > redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution.” > > Baby-boomer radicals loved it, raising their fists in defiance of Richard > Nixon and Spiro Agnew. > > But now that it is the populist-nationalist right that is moving beyond > the niceties of liberal democracy to save the America that they love, > elitist enthusiasm for “revolution” seems more constrained. > > What goes around comes around. > > http://buchanan.org/blog/an-establishment-in-panic-3-125855 > > -- > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ > * It's active and moderated. 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