FourthBase » Tue May 24, 2016 6:12 am wrote:How would you ordinarily feel about a presidential candidate who says that the Iraq invasion was based on lies, that the Saudi links to 9/11 should be made public, and that the electoral system is rigged and for sale?
If it's Trump, I'd feel it was obvious that he is a lot more serious about rapidly deporting 11 million people with all the jackbooting that entails; instituting a religious interrogation for entry to the US; holding quasi-fascist political pageants; and getting bellicose with new enemies. All are definitional to his program, chosen persona and rhetoric. And he's doubtless more serious about advantaging a slightly different mix of the super-rich. (Never mind the wall, though some Friends-from-Jersey contractors will profit for the thing that will never actually be built.) As for his opportunistic "left" moves, there is by comparison no basis for believing he'd order an investigation of the Iraq WMD lies, reduce the military budget or end covert interventionism (he has indicated the opposite and anyway how is HE going to challenge the MIC?), break with Saudi (now that he's got funding from Adelson and meeting with Kissinger?) or -- ha ha ha -- pursue rigorous electoral/campaign finance/lobbying/revolving door reform. On that last issue, it will surely be "left to the states," along with health care and abortion rights.
