Election 2016: About HILLARY ("The other is psychotic".)

About HILLARY ("...the other is psychotic."). Michael Tomasky put it well in his Sept 19, 2016, piece in the DailyBeast site, An Open Letter to Swing Voters Still Considering Donald Trump.

There's not much one can add to Mike's blurb to emphasize the choice in the coming 2016 election.

Election 2016: Are We Post Racial America when White Pimps Run for President? 'Pimpin' Might be Easy' (DTrump)

This is a tough world and to make it really big in America takes a hero's effort. So it used to go. Now, it is maybe more appropriate to say, 'this world is bat-s..t crazy and getting crazier, but there is a high ground we might all look for before it, too, is swallowed up.' So, let's get to it.

By coincidence, and after this blog was posted, this blogger happened upon a striking cartoon in OpedNews webzine submitted by Shawn Hamilton,'The PIMPS, a Cartoon by Ralph Hamilton'. Ralph Hamilton was a caucasian, WW2 Combat pilot (1918-1999) who rendered his concept of the American 'PIMPS system' as described to him by Ralph Hamilton's impressions after a 1981 Dick Gregory speech. Dick Gregory, a notable African-American, has since 1953 continued to speak out as one of the most iconic satirists of American cultural-politics. Gregory's 1981,'PIMPS' described an evolved stage beyond Eisenhower's 'Military-Industrial Complex:

PIMPS = Political, Industrial, Military Power Syndicate (1981, Dick Gregory).

Here is Ralph Hamilton's drawing of Dick Gregory's 1981 spoken image of the American political PIMPS (Political, Industrial, Military Power Syndicate):

The essence of Mr Gregory's and Mr Hamilton's melding of thought is thoroughly shared by Pericles21 who had heretofore felt this post was perhaps stepping out a bit far applying the 'title' of "Pimp" to Mr Trump, one of the current two presidential candidates. This blogger feels not only relieved and bolstered learning the ideas expressed in this post is shared by so esteemed an observer of American cultural-politics as Dick Gregory.

Pericles21 takes the further step in extracting one of Ralph Hamilton's 'PIMPS' characters as the dopplegang of Donald Trump (the resemblance seems uncanny, but a Pimp is a known thing):

So, onward.

WHO SAID IT:
Like a pimp, pimping his target and forthwith bragging about his next bling-grab (as Pimps and pimpin' cons do), Trump, in 2000 predicted, “I could be the first presidential candidate to run and make money on it...”, (Fortune, April 3, 2000). Hear that silken tonality like from a true 'Player', feel it?. GSA.

Classically American - in 2000, Trump felt he might one day run for President. But, more importantly, that was a 'Fortune' piece and Fortune does not waste print on just any Bozo, usually. So, what might Fortune have noted in April 2000 that might we read and be educated or warned about Trump today?

Well, back in 2000, Fortune indeed noted some important things about Donald Trump that we today should be mindful of. For one, Fortune noted that Trump had "far outlasted" many celebs of the fab '80s but Trump survived with his celebrity status intact. On the other hand, although he came through strangely:

"without any discernible personal growth. Like a cryogenically frozen Austin Powers, he stands as an almost perfectly preserved specimen of the era".

Then, and tellingly for an understanding of his current persona, he still comes across in 2000 as

"an unreconstructed hedonist"

That takes some doing...'disco inferno' lives on?

And about Trump's love of, in current lingo, 'Bling', in 2000 Fortune said:

"Trump’s mandarin tastes and almost sensual love of money can seem a refreshing throwback. “I, personally, like feeling the asset,” (Trump)

But what was perhaps the most surprising Fortune information in 2000, was Trump's relationship with minorities - Trumpster was 'in like Flynn' with just about everyone:

"In an 800-person survey conducted by Democratic pollster Rob Schroth, Trump scored a 67% favorable rating among blacks (vs. 21% unfavorable), 62% among Hispanics, and 66% among whites earning under $25,000,..."

'Wha happened' with Trump and the bros, with the muslims, with women? One answer 'seems' likely...and note the use of 'seems'...this blogger is one of the vast many who can't read minds and doesn't really want to know what might be in Trump's head...but the potential answer is Trump sussed out his political future and saw the quick con which required him to drop the bros and muslims, and upstart women. And, since he was going that way, why not include Mexicans, etc?

So, we are here today...and about to face-off with the made-over Trump...whose new 'base' is virtually all-majority race (white). Trump is the new hero of the self-isolated, rebuilt, purged and whacky so-called Republican 'phenomenon' ('phenomenon' since Republicans no longer have a real Party...Trump chased them all away like bug-sprayed ants at the company picnic).

But, we've used some word space, tho' for good reason. Now, in 2016, we see the wonderful transformation Trump has imposed on himself, which his new supporters have swallowed 'foot, line and nipple'.

And all to implement the Trumpster's big score. 'Watch out', America.

This is a tough world and to make it really big in America takes a hero's effort. And Trump made the effort and is now poised to drop a bomb.

Or pull off a pimp's con. Only the smartest, or the crookedest, or the most insane, or the biggest pimpin' cheat and exploiter can join up with the 'club' of American business success. And Donald Trump ('DT', OD (our Donald), 'Scratch'(as tagged by Hillary's 'deplorable', Big Pimpin') is allegedly a member of that club, and now he wants to grab the furriest pimp hat by getting the American Presidency by pulling off the biggest scam yet perpetrated on Barnum's gullible American public.

Even though his mega projects too often fall through eventually, and his suppliers and sub-contractors too often are stiffed, OD (Scratch, DT, The Deplorable One, etc) will show 'em all by 'pulling the wool' again. In OD's mind, he must be thinking 24/7, 'They're wrong. Fools are always ready to be fooled again ...somebody's gonna do it, so why not me'.

Trump is not racist, it's just that he's a closeted pimp searching for respect and wonders why his New York City, 8th Avenue 'cuz's' (the brotherhood of pimps) are always getting more TV 'props' as iconic characters, than himself. Trump feels he is disadvantaged by being not-Black so he takes it out on that club he can never be a member of by virtue of skin color, African-Americans. But have no doubt, behind that Orangeness Trump is a true American product, a quintessential street pimp: he's got the flair, he's got the hair, he's always first at the table, and he's got the 'stable' (which he constantly brags about and flashes in front of interviewers and television cameras like a pimp's 3 carat, Zircon thumb ring).

With these tools, and a mind like a 3 dollar ..., Trump can play his positions like a true pimp exploiter. 'America, the land of milk and honey, be proud of your boy, OD.'

Trump can creep along pretending to be what others 'see' (a maybe-successful, majority race businessman). Meanwhile, in his mind and heart, he is smirking at the gullibility of just about everyone he dupes and cheats. In other words. a pimp up to no good.

But, to Trump, duping others is no sin on his part, it's god's way of punishing the stupid,...right? The are the dupes and to balance things off, there must be the 'dupers' - that's just natural.

Our Trump feels he is a tool of divine purpose and he strives to be the best at his role, The Top Dup-er. Big Pimpin'. And 'No, pimpin can be easy'. If you have what it takes, you can not only win but run the table... again, and again and again...

Not a doubt. Trump probably begins each day reciting (mentally, of course), the pimp's mantra - that of the 80s master rapper of American Hip-Hop, 'Dougie Fresh'...and our Donald sings to himself, it goes something like this,

'Woke up this mornin, with a morning yawnin, put on my Gucci's' ...

...on and on our Donald serenades as he pumps up for the day's exploitations, hmmm challenges.

And our Donald, properly attired and cologned with the best, goes out to beat, err rip, err meet... the world.

Today, OD will try to pull off a scheme he dreamt - to see if regulators have fallen asleep about preventing cycling campaign funds to personal use. OD has to keep up a 'face' of non-chalance as he slices off a couple of hundred 'thou' for socks and new shoes (get's them bespoke in England, don'cha know).

And behold, OD's magic holds tight. No questions asked. The regulators are fast asleep and are mesmerized by his smile behind all that smile and impressive glitz.

'Lo', 'Flash' does it again. OD rips off, err achieves a business success, what regulators and analysts are finally catching a clue about - OD has ripped off 8.2 Million dollars paying personal expenses from his campaign collections (Politico webzine, September 22, 2016).

Does this unveiling faze OD? Of course not. The con's hustle and flow never stops. Chickens are just waiting to hop in the pan. So is OD's philosophy.

Lesson, 'pimpin' can be easy. And lesson number 2, 'What's gone today can be conned tomorrow'.

Repeat after me, 'WHO SAID IT?, “I could be the first presidential candidate to run and make money on it,”' Oh Yeah, we know who!
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Election 2016: "Deplorable": Hillary Clinton Tags Trump with a Word from the Heartland (Trump as 'Old Scratch')

“Deplorable". Hillary Clinton called out DTrump as "Deplorable". And it is a righteous thing.

With this seemingly simple word spoken as from an Iowa front porch, though now claimed as cleverly chosen, Hillary Clinton tagged Donald Trump as a "Deplorable' (SOB). And DT will wear it like the Devil, whom Dan’l Webster debated in the classic American short story, wears "Scratch" The Devil and Daniel Webster, (1936, Stephen Vincent Benet),. Indeed, DTrump is deplorable and DTrump should, as well, wear the tag, "Scratch". Besides, Keith Olbermann calls Trump, a "Demonic Messiah"!

Why has 'deplorable' emerged from the cloud-mass of seemingly-ordinary American vocabulary to cause such consternation in the DT camp (no longer properly referable to as 'Republican' because DT chased the bulk of Republicans, as we've known them since Nixon, out and away from their cozy, pork barrel (and lobbyist-golden parachute) 'public service' nests and to Hell where they stand in trembling fear and confusion.

And why is there in Hillary's camp a growing nodding among her doubters and cheering among her constant supporters? (Read Murfster35's piece in the DailyKos webzine.)

For starters, look at the symptoms resulting from tagging DT with "Deplorable" - the confused running in circles of her opponents. Even Mike Pence, Trump's choice for running-mate and knee-jerk to the alt-right, can't seem to find a comeback to 'Deplorable'...and this blogger has a theory 'why' - truth (Hillary's use of 'Deplorable') can't be rebutted by DT-Pence's blatant falsity or anything from anyone else in the bastardized, neo-Repub party.

And, BTW, who is Mike Pence? And, what is the 'Alt-right'?

Here are Trump and Pence in a recent but classic and appropriate 'Abbott and Costello' pose where the question is, as was with Abbot and Costello in their 1940s comedy films, 'Who's the real dummy?'):

And here is Abbot and Costello from the 1940s, (What a resemblance!):

Again,'Who's the real dummy?


Some features of Mike Pence the Indiana governor, probably chosen for the gleam on his eye shutters that he robbed from an Indiana mule, 'Mike Pence slowly learning his political future is dead':

And what is 'alt-right? It is, in an abbreviated list:

alt-right is a segment of right-wing ideologies presented as an alternative to mainstream conservatism in the United States.[1][2] It has been described as a movement unified by support for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump,[3][4] as well as by opposition to multiculturalism and immigration.[2][5]

The alt-right has no official ideology, although various sources have said that it is associated with white nationalism,[1][2][6] white supremacism,[3][7][8] antisemitism,[1][2][9] right-wing populism,[6] nativism,[10] and the neoreactionary movement.[7][11]

And this is the 'APB" on the Trump-highjacked Republican Party...where 'Scratch'(DT) runs the show.

So, let's start to refer to DTrump as, "Scratch', the bald-liar One that Dan'l Webster successfully argued against.

But now to the point of all this.

As a top achieving Yale Law grad (after a Wellesley BA, for god’s sake) and wife of a two term President and a two term Secretary of State under another two term President, Hillary Clinton surely had a vast vocabulary at her command to use to pin DTrump ('Scratch') like a fly to a wall.

Instead Hillary used, in the first hour or so after hearing it, what sounded like a harmless sounding descriptor, “Deplorable’.

What? Was that the best Hillary could come up with...and what exactly was Hillary about, "Deplorable" seems so out of place in today’s charged media atmosphere? But after a few more hours, ‘deplorable’ still hung around one’s brain and it’s power began to take shape...and indeed, ‘deplorable’ continues to grow in force.

What is it about ‘Deplorable’ that makes it hang and swell in the air?

It is that ‘Deplorable’ speaks from the ‘Heartland’ of America, as from a current Dan’l Webster or in the manner of Joseph Welch who called out Joe McCarthy, “have you no sense of decency...” in the McCarthy-Army hearings of 1954 — McCarthy Hearings, 1954).

"Deplorable' speaks from the language base which the 'Trumpists', and all of America, knows and responds to. 'Scratch' could, and can never use words of that kind of truth because he and his minions are through and through False, fake surface dross.

“Deplorable’ strips Trump to nakedness and renders with a finality him and his behavior as unworthy to stand among responsible adults. No wonder Pence tries awkwardly, but unsuccessfully, to dance away and around that seemingly simple term because ’Deplorable’ rings as authentically American, and Scratch is not authentic — at best Scratch is a clown, a fool, even.

DTrump was called out in the olde language of America’s regions - East, West, South and North...and has been named as 'Scratach' who merits no place among responsible adults and all Americans. Hillary Clinton tagged the Devil.

Election 2016: Trump and Our Post-McLuhan Madness..That the Democrats Can't Handle...But Must to Save Our Asses

The Democrats' stubborn hubris about proper English and 'good behavior' might win the election for Trump. Maybe if Trump successfully dodges a debate with Hillary Clinton, the Dems might hold an 'in absentia' mock debate paid for entirely by Democrat money - Trump's responses would come from his actual public statements on pertinent subjects, his statements presented in full context, of course.

This post responds to a recent commenting article in the Dailykos website regarding Donald Trump's apparent dread of a prime-time TV-debate with Hillary Clinton, 'Trump Announces His Debate Escape Plan'(Dailykos, july 29, 2016, by 'Brainwap').

Point: Making sense ‘makes no sense’ nowadays. Catch the clue — we’re in a post-McLuhanist age of personal tube projection that transcends Marshall’s “medium is the message” to now where mere media presence, especially when accompanied by extreme emoting, outweighs words.

Mr. Trump has figured out, or it comes naturally (as with many historical demagogues/psychopaths), his rants contain emotional messages and codes that swamp his opponents' nicely phrased logic and Websterian correctness.

Trump's words don’t matter, his words are the new medium serving only as carrier waves for Trump’s emotional displays that win with their ‘’Shock and Awe-some Impact’. 'INCOHERENCE, NON-SEQUITORS, GARBLED NON-SENSE'? So what!

Sadly, the Democrats squint and wince at Trump (’Trump-don’t-buy-ins) and keep parsing Trump’s words, trying to convince him into self-deprecating acceptance of our use of superior word-knowledge that (we feel)sets us apart from the 'masses'….while he skips along unchallenged in another stratum where his blue collar and many, just plain dissatisfied (Bernie followers) audiences resonate to his emotions and non-literal messages. Holding on to the Democrats' stubborn hubris might win the election for Trump.

Election 2016: Hillary Chooses Tim Kaine for VP, Lets The Sun Shine In -- And Satirist "Borowitz" Peels Back the Banana

Ala Andy Borowitz ('Borowitz Report', New Yorker, July 24, 2016, "SEEMINGLY DECENT HUMAN BEING’S INVOLVEMENT IN 2016 ELECTION CONFUSES VOTERS"):

The man’s [Tim Kaine] apparent humanity could spell trouble for his candidacy, as some voters questioned whether he has the capacity for unspeakable evil that is generally considered necessary to win higher office.

But, as Borowitz does, should we add, hedge the kudos, by tacking on 'seemingly'?

'Yes', Hillary Clinton, Democratic Party assumptive Dem candidate for President has filled the very worrisome position of her Vice President running mate with a solid, experienced and a genuine person, Senator Tim Kaine former Governor of Virginia. Tim Kaine is a good fit - for Hillary, for the Democratic Party ticket and especially for the spectrum of America's diverse peoples.

But, 'Yes', as Andy Borowitz messages, Senator Kaine's normalcy and good vibes also serve to put a hard light on America's current moral status - Kaine seems maybe too good, too real, too genuine for jaded America.

Borowitz' peels back America's banana. The title of his July 24 piece says much about American politics, it's lack of what 'jaded' America grudgingly accepts but what America needs to feel good about itself - respect for our political system, our political ways, decision operations and the too often questionable behavior of our elected officials.

Borowitz incisively ends:

“I’m trying to keep an open mind, but I worry about his lack of experience being a dick,” one voter said.

Election 2016: Brexit and Trumpism - We saw it Coming, Where are they Going? Future Benefits.

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- over time, America has seen more downward than upward mobility, and migration often substitutes for actual class security.
- Americans continue to tell themselves they believe in social equality, but history tells a different story.

- "White Trash": The language used to describe classes and the poor can be traced back to the forceful imprint left by British colonization. Before it became that fabled "City upon a Hill," America was, in the eyes of 16th-century English adventurers, a foul, weedy wilderness — a "wasteland," they called it, where the Old World could unload the idle poor.
- Among the unheroic transplants were convicts, Irish rebels, known whores, ex-soldiers, adults in debt, and the children of beggars, all of whom either chose exile in place of a prison term (or hanging!) or else sold themselves into indentured servitude.
- The great majority of the early colonists were classified as a surplus population, as expendable "rubbish" — a rude rather than a robust population.
- These were America's "waste people," who, sometime around the 1820s, came to be called "white trash."
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Brexit and Trump-ism share common themes and causes focused on the growing disposability of American and European workers. This was a sensed phenomenon Pericles21 posted on this blog site about some time ago (Pericles21' post of February 6, 2009 - "MBA Follies #1: The Public as Labor Pool [Or, MBA wet dreams gone bad)" was a growing but still, at that time, a somewhat contentious question of 'being' for the American worker - what or who exactly, was the American (and western powers) worker in the world of the now truly big, truly powerful multi-national corporations?

Were developed-nations' workers still, foremost, citizens or were they in the process, or well along the way, of becoming just a cost parameter, a cog, in the profit machine...without countervailing powers, losing respect from the national governance systems, and increasingly having their 'being-hood' (ascendancy as living persons) given to, or high-jacked by, the corporations (viz., the American Supreme Court's 2010 decision favoring virtually unlimited corporate election donations, 'Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission'.

Continuing the list of erosions of hard-won benefits and powers suffered by American workers, there has been a ever closer examination by researchers on the decline of unions and real wages since the 1970's. This had resulted in a growing, 'itchy' sense in both researchers and workers that all was not 'ok' in the land of the free, and it's motherland of ideas, Great Britain...and likely including Spain, Greece, and several other nations at this point.

That question about the value and constitutional importance of workers, and the larger worker-middle class (80% of America) could be condensed into a broad question - 'exactly who is the American citizen, what place in American politics does a citizen have in today's America and especially in corporate-globalism, or global-corporatism (the two descriptors are now indistinct since the top-most power element after the 'Elite 1% is the corporate empire which is global and has come to control governments and global electoral processes...until BREXIT and Trump-ism..which caught the pundits, seated politicians and just about everyone else, including BREXIT and Trump supporters by surprise.

On BREXIT and Trump-ism: Not surprisingly, the very democratic principles that the corporate world had cleverly sought (successfully) to manipulate with the result of 'Citizens vs. United', also proved wonderfully robust enough to provide the victims of supposedly all-conquering corporatism with the supreme countervailing power, the referendum and (perhaps) the upcoming vote to elect the American President.

If Trump is not to be the next American President, at least the bells have been rung in this 2016 re-enactment of France's 1790s times of rolling Trumbrils and tumbling heads. Heads may not fall in America, hopefully at least not in reality, but again hopefully we will see balance created in the tug-of-war between the American citizen-worker and the corporate bloc.

Now the question is, 'are there ANY rights left to the worker-citizen?

'Brexit' (and Trumpism) seems to answer for the common folk in both countries, 'Well, one can't be certain where the citizen fits in these days but the common folk have shouted out they do not want to continue to lie in this bed of gross economic inequality.

The ground theme behind Brexit and Trumpism is a combination of lingering, media-romanticized feudalism, dog-whistle racism and habitual knee-bending worship of nobility and its modern equivalent, the corporate and wealthy elites. But why haven't Trumpism and BREXIT exploded before now?

First, Pericles21 challenges the idea that Trumpism and Brexit are original ideas and movements - Trump and Brexit are just terminal signs of a pot that has been building in temperature for several decades and now is exploding its lid.

Pericles21 also proposes that, once again, in America and as well in Great Britain, the roots of citizen passivity-until-eruption derive from the same source - the culturally-engrained, centuries-old, feudalist acceptance by the 'common folk' to be governed by their 'bettors', currently the all-mighty corporate citizens (white collar and those somewhat securely employed under that umbrella) and corporations themselves who in recent years have been given by governments and legal courts astounding recognitions and power in the form of the 'Gift of Beiing' as proferred on bended knee to the corporations by the American Supreme Court in the above-mentioned 'Citizens United' SCOTUS 2010 decision that gifted corporations with personhood.

This class fatalism can still be heard in direct or indirect form among back country, 'White', Scots-Irish-transplanted English folk in the Virginias, Carolinas, Georgia, ...and their generatios later descendants just about anywhere in the south-of-Dixie original states and especially in the family trees of the former Confederate states.

The modern form of this feudal 'inheritance', passivity in the face of corporate excesses, is not a good thing for a modern nation - this passivity is civically unhealthy, but it is ingrained and difficult to get rid of because it is a key theme of American culture that is still programmed into our group think in the iconic symbols of the 'suffering-with-pride', simple-living, uneducated heroes exampled by the Clampett's of television's'Beverly Hillbillys', the 1940's movies' 'Ma and Pa Kettle', ...and many other movie and television creations. These simple folk were held as American memes of truth and quality-of-life, in integrity, while material and social network quality-of life was preserved for their 'bettors', the corporate and upper classes.

This self-delusion had to (must) end and Trump is its voice. If Trump is not eleted President, let's hope that the next President anad Congress will have listened to what Trump's calling out is messaging, deep disatisfaction of the American working class, and implement programs to better the quality of life for the common folk of America (national health care, free college at least at the two-year level, national wage reviews, ...), modernize America's infrastructure to support the businesses of the next century (high-speed rail, national internet, space-resources exploration and mining systems development)

Election 2016: A Clinton-Warren Ticket? Maybe Not in America, Right Now

Let's hope either Hillary, or Warren or both will lead the country for the next eight years.

JACKIE KUCINICH wrote a piece on June 27, 2016,(The Daily Beast) about a possible Warren-Clinton Democratic ticket. Such a pairing seems a natural thing - the two women appear to be the 'head of the class' candidates not only for the Democrats but even when compared to what the Republicans can offer. (I have not included Bernie Sanders in the comparison base as imho he is a class unto himself.) But Clinton and Warren appear to complement each's qualities in a unique way - either could be considered a viable candidate for President by herself.

From a rational point-of-view, 'Clinton-Warren' would be good for America - Clinton the neo-Thatcher administrator and Warren the problem-solver visionary. Finally, a balance to 200+ years of male dominated leadership.

But, America's tendency to preserve its prejudices and fears has in Ms. Kucinich's research has produced a disturbing but predictable thought about a 'Clinton-Warren' ticket - 'is this too much (femaleness) too soon for America?' Once again America's gender prejudice exerts itself. It is a dark force, felt in mostly in America's imagination but as destructive as a reality.

Ms. Kucinich writes that this force as felt in the mind of a female Ohio democrat:

"You’d think the idea of Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren on a Democratic ticket would fire up Democratic women. Instead, it’s making... voters very nervous."

From another woman interviewee:

“I’m a little concerned about her [Warren] being the VP choice, I’m not sure about two women, I don’t know if the county’s quite ready for that,” said Susan Knox, a retired human resources professional from Cincinnati, said. “I wouldn’t be unhappy, but I want to win here.”

At the base of things, the prospect of a woman President would be an opportunity for America to congratulate itself especially given the opposing prospect of a Republican Party 'Trump' candidate.

But, Kucinich's article indirectly messages a disappointing American trait: in times of national distress, whether economic or racial bad times, America often detours to the easy road - the tendency to spend its energies not on constructive programs and noble gestures but to waste its energies and human resources on the least rewarding (foreign wars against midget armies), the least palatable (racial violence), most low and distasteful actions and statements revealing our cultural fears, hate and prejudices... about gender, race and the general 'Other'.

Will even just a female President be too much too soon for America? I hope not because it's no longer an issue of whose turn is it to be President - male of female. America needs a woman in the President's chair to recover from over 200 years of testosterone overload that has led us into serial warring, secrecy and assassinations, economic corruption and a general neglect of public infrastructures (transportation and communication such as a national internet system), health care and education, and family and child support systems. The 2016 election could potentially change this history and see America take a new, more healthy road.

Let's hope either Hillary, or Warren or both will lead the country for the next eight years.









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