Seeds of Revolution
Men in Funny Hats
I’m sure many of you supercilious snowflakes headed for your safe spaces after the first paragraph in which I made several Judeo-Christian references and called Hillary fat. And I probably lost some more of you when I told you Israel is our friend. And when I called Michael Moore fat, nasty, and greasy…Oh dear, juice boxes and cupcakes for everyone! Those of you still with me are very brave. Should you choose to keep reading, your courage will be rewarded with a little pre-millennial history that may help you better understand Trump’s victory.
People like me have been wanting to blow up the system since ’92 when we voted for a goofy, straight-talking billionaire named Ross Perot who ran as an Independent candidate for President against George H.W. Bush and William Jefferson Clinton. Perot’s message was remarkably like Trump’s in its content, delivery, and party-defying pragmatism. And like Trump, he put millions into his own campaign, but preferred to get his press free through frank, provocative comments he knew would get the media’s panties in a wad. Sound familiar? Also like Trump, Perot called ‘em like he saw ‘em, when he saw ‘em, with little apparent consideration for the predictable combustion which ensued. He had big balls.
He also turned out to be a little nuts. Like when his campaign was foundering and he dropped out of the race for 11 weeks before reentering and blaming his exit on a dastardly plot by Bush to disrupt his daughter’s wedding and smear her using altered photographs. Bush denied it of course, and surrogates called Perot loony. But it’s not like Bush, a former CIA Director, would have been unfamiliar with dirty tricks. Regardless of who was telling the truth (Bush) the media painted Perot as unable or unwilling to accept responsibility for his failure, and more importantly, as unstable and unfit to lead. Sound familiar again?
So we had a crazy, narcissistic, 5'5" billionaire whose undersize stature, oversize cowboy hat, and shrill Texas drawl, brought to mind Yosemite Sam without the facial hair, just as crazy, and an octave angrier. But by then, I was good with crazy. Perot’s crazy was punctuated by what many of us knew were very lucid and prescient metaphors like the giant sucking sound we would hear from jobs leaving for Mexico if NAFTA passed. But a third party candidate had never won the White House, and Perot’s opponents didn’t have anywhere near the steamer trunks of baggage Hillary brought to her White House bid. So Perot was destined to lose, and lose he did. But in defeat, he garnered almost 19% of the popular vote, a number narrowly-surpassed just twice in 1856 and again in 1912, when former presidents Millard Fillmore and Teddy Roosevelt ran as third-party candidates.
Thank You Sir, May I Have Another?
After Perot’s loss, the corruption in Washington continued unabated for the next 24 years. Clinton won that election, and while Hillary got right to work on a DOA precursor to to the now-failed ObamaCare, the “man from Hope” proceeded to soil America’s house like a feral dog, staining both the highest office in the land and the lowest intern on the staff. Then we had eight years of George W. Bush, the neocon cowboy who hid Saudi Arabia’s guilt in the 9/11 attacks, while simultaneously destabilizing those sections of the middle east not run by his oil sheik buddies. And finally we endured eight years of Barack Obama, the “Hope and Change” socialist who hoped he could change America into Cuba, and hoped he could change the murderous acts of genocidal dictators by issuing red lines in the sand -even after the world had watched him break promises, bow down, bend over, and lead from behind.
Speaking of bending over, my ass was getting a little sore by 2012 (Thank you sir, may I have another?) I had watched in 2008 as Republicans nominated white bread insider John McCain because it was his turn. Now I was watching the same idiots nominate white bread insider Mitt Romney because it was his turn. Both were terrified of being called racist by racists, so both employed pacifist politics which ensured their respective defeats. In disgust I bought this web address and wrote much of what follows because I had come to realize that We The People had only two options. We could wait for the revolution, or we could form a third “major” political party rooted in the Constitution and dedicated to the proposition that we can take our country back from the elitists in both parties who think they should have the power to run our lives.
Swamp Thing
A lot has happened since then. Well, let’s just call it like it is. President Donald J Trump has happened since then. And whether you like it or not, he’s got eight years to teach generations of Americans raised on soccer, tofu, new math, and participation awards that capitalism is good and socialism is not. I give him eight, because it is not easy to keep American capitalism bottled up, and yet Obama has done just that for the better part of a decade. So when the cork pops during Trumps first term, it should ensure him a second. Is it possible that Trump can fulfill all his promises and move the country and the Republican Party in a new direction in just eight years? Is it possible that his movement is so big even Ryan and the RINOs (McCain, McConnell, Murkowski, Collins, and Graham) won’t be able to stop him from rebuilding the GOP platform on posts stamped “America First?” Is it possible our streets will be safe, our families…secure, and our children’s future full of promise? Is it possible that 95 million Americans will return to the workforce, proud again to participate in the greatest economy the world has ever seen, unleashed? Is it really possible that Trump has, in fact, delivered the peaceful revolution I thought only a third major political could bring?
Sure it’s possible, and I am hopeful. But even if all these things were to happen, what’s to stop a new administration from undoing them like Trump is now undoing Obama’s embarrassing legacy? You’re welcome, Obama! No, it’s much more likely that Republicans and Democrats alike will simply play along, doing whatever they must to survive until Trump is gone and they can return to business as usual. So I propose we make sure they have nothing to return to. I propose we blow up business as usual. Together, let’s start demolishing the decaying dikes that surround the swamp that is our federal government, so that its draining cannot be stopped by a new administration.
Let’s build a true third political party to empower a new breed of representative to reexamine how our government works -or doesn’t work- and to make the necessary changes. And let’s hope that in eight years, or 12, or 30 when the last of these swamp creatures poke their heads up out of their hiding places and discover that the fetid waters of the bog have receded, leaving firm fertile ground upon which we can rebuild a great nation… Let’s hope on that fine day, they will come to understand that the swamp is gone, and that their lives within its confines did not provide them the requisite evolutionary changes to survive on dry land. On that day, I will be very happy.
Now What?
But how do we make sure that day comes? How do we keep the swamp draining? We form a third “major” political party, comprised of Republicans and Democrats alike who know in their hearts and minds they are no longer represented. A party made up of citizens who believe that word should mean something again. A party that includes the millions of us who have supported the empowering message of the Tea Party Movement. And a party that hears voices like mine ours which speak for the Libertarian, Green, or Constitution Parties, but are seldom heard above the din of unelectable candidates and indefensible peripheral policies.
What I propose is that all of us with open minds and unwashed brains look past our small differences, embrace our very large agreements, and form an alliance, kindred in common sense and love of country, and united against common enemies like socialism, globalism, interventionism, corporate greed, educational decay, environmental destruction, and islamic terrorism. If we can come together and create a true third party built on these common goals and rooted in common sense and the Constitution, I believe we can truly begin the process of taking our country back.