I find myself thinking about the 2020 Presidential Election more than the one that will happen this year. Call me strange (most of you do already) but I fear that the 2020 election is going to change the way that politics happens in the United States. If you think that THIS year is crazy… just wait!
This
presidential election season already has had some unprecedented and noteworthy
events. One of them that I am fascinated about is the emergence of Donald Trump
and Bernie Sanders. One is a billionaire who says he has used the broken system
to his advantage many times and the other rails against billionaires for using
the broken system to their advantage. Yet both of these guys are selling the
same sandwich... Anti-Establishment Thoughts on rye bread with Say Anything
cheese and a side of Crazy Hair chips.
If you break
down these two campaigns, they are remarkably the same in structure but
different flavor. Both “The Bern” and “The Don” are telling their supporters
what they want to hear. Both have said that the current system is broken and
they both have crazy plans to make it better. Both have political backgrounds that
back in the day, in my lifetime, would have made them laughing stocks! First
you have Bernie who in an Independent and self-identifies as a Democratic
Socialist when most Americans liken the term Socialist to Communist or Marxist.
Trump is quoted several times saying that he has played both sides of the
political arena depending on his needs and has given huge amounts of money and
support in order to get his way with no real loyalty to either side. I just can’t
imagine that either of those stances would fly even 8 years ago. Both of these
guys can say what they want with no real dump in popularity. Bern has thrown
some WILD ideas about how he will change American economically without real
proof that he can do it and Trump said he could openly kill a person and still
not be touched in the polls. I am starting to believe that both of them are
true.
Mix in the
other people who are running and it is a figurative fruit salad:
Hillary Clinton– Great resume and experience but not
likable or charismatic at all. I think that it is time for a woman president
and if another woman who had half of her experience and was likable was running;
Hillary would have already had to concede.
Ted Cruz – Trying hard to be a political
outsider, only because it’s cool. He is so far right that the Tea Party is
scared and apparently is disliked by every
one of his colleges in the Senate.
Marco Rubio –“The Establishment Candidate from
Hell”. “They” want to run him so bad, but “They” can’t get him to put together
a cohesive statement about anything that doesn’t get thrown back in his face.
He polls well against Hillary, but is getting crushed by Ted and Trump in exit
polls from the last 2 caucuses for no apparent reason.
Ben
Carson – Holy Shit. On
NBC’s Meet the Press in October 2015, Carson compared women who terminate their unwanted pregnancies
to slave owners. Back in 2013, he said in a speech that “Obamacare is really I think the
worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery.” In an interview with CNN in October, Carson blamed the Holocaust on
the fact that Nazis took guns away from the Jewish people. “I think the
likelihood of Hitler being able to accomplish his goals would have been greatly
diminished if the people had been armed,” Carson said. “There’s a reason these
dictatorial people take the guns first.” Carson
said in a CNN interview in March that homosexuality is a choice, citing people who “go into prison straight – and when they
come out, they’re gay” as proof. He later attempted to apologize for the remarks in which he
addressed those who were offended, but reinforced his belief that sexual
orientation is chosen. Carson has also called marriage equality a “Marxist
plot,” described marriage equality supporters as “enemies of America,” and compared homosexuality to pedophilia and bestiality,
another statement that led him to similarly “apologize” for
his “poorly chosen words.” HOLY SHIT!
Jeb – I won’t use his last name until he does. He came in
like gangbusters and then in his first debate came in 8th in the GOP
voters of FLORIDA! The state he was governor! 8th!!! I wonder if he
will ever talk to his brother again. He did have his mom come out and stump for
him and then later that night had to ASK FOR PEOPLE TO CLAP FOR HIM! www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYau9SZXn54
His mom must have been SO proud.
So here is
where I am going with all of this… If this is now the norm, what is the NEXT
election going to look like? It’s not enough to just say you are Pro-Life, like
in the past and it’s not going to be enough to just say that you are so
Pro-Life that even in the cases of incest, rape or if the mother will die you
still think that the woman has no choices but to carry the baby to term. In
2020 you will have to take a woman who has a friend who might have had abortion
while driving past Planned Parrenthood and throw her in a pit of lava.
Next
election, being a professional fact checker will be a job that doesn’t exist.
This year during debates on BOTH side so the fence, “facts” are not the cool
thing to use. It was reported by Politifact that in the second GOP debate that
75% of statements that Donald Trump make were either false or “Pants on Fire”
yet he was deemed the winner of the debate! 75%! In 2020, you will be able to
stand at a podium on live TV and tell the American public that you opponent is
an alien who has for sure slept with the wives, daughters and dogs of
every one of the men from Iowa and will win that caucus by 95 points, easy.
I sit at home
and think about what 2020 will be like if “the people” pick
Trump and/or Sanders in this primary/caucus system’s popular vote and low and
behold the SUPER DELEGATES come out to play and we end up with Rubio v. Clinton.
I promise there will have to be more riot cops deployed around the US than ever
before. If you don’t know what a Super Delegate is, look HERE.
So hang
tight, folks, it’s going to be bumpy! 2016 ain’t shit on what we are going to
see in four years!
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