Agent Orange Cooper » Mon Aug 08, 2016 10:18 am wrote:Thought experiment for anyone who wants to partake: if there were ever an
actual insurgency of an anti-establishment, anti-deep state, anti-Nazionist cabal, etc, candidate with real 'juice' (meaning no namby-pamby Green or Libertarian outlier candidate) entering the mainstream political arena of the US, what would you imagine it would look like?
It would never make it to large-scale/mainstream exposure; the movement -- and its ideals -- would be compromised, infiltrated and/or snuffed out before ever gaining momentum, or otherwise
transformed into what would outwardly appear to be 'grassroots' but ultimately driven by
other interests.
See Bernie and his now scant role as 'advocate' for Hillary, repeating his (now almost fully ignored by the Bernie Bros) call for supporting Hillary as the 'only sensible' option to TRUMP.
Was Bernie's campaign at one time 'genuine', or was it compromised from the start to play out this script of eventual capitulation?
In any event, the short answer to your question is that those with power/influence simply have too much of both to allow a genuine movement to take hold across the nation. That may change, however; all empires eventually crumble. AND, it is NOTABLE that there is a sense of DESPERATION at play. This entire election cycle -- TRUMP's continued existence as a candidate -- SPEAKS loudly to the awareness among the power brokers that the PLEBES are increasingly frustrated with the status quo and less tolerant of 'politics as usual'. The masses are stirring at near fever-pitch.
It's becoming increasingly arduous to keep such sentiment
tamped down. Therein -- eventually -- may lie an opening for our INSURGENCY.
(/fanciful thoughts)
On Edit: since the question was posed
hypothetically, a variation of Searcher08's response sounds ideal. Of course, the key would be MASS adoption and collaboration; in-fighting and/or factions would compromise the strength of any movement, needless to say (hence the time/effort dedicated by the
letter agencies to infiltrate via COINTELPRO, etc., but since we're sticking to a hypothetical scenario, COINTELPRO and other nefarious tactics wouldn't be considered.... right? Damned reality)