Donald Trump is right: the game is rigged. But I doubt that he understands how or what to do about it. So long as we have big government and millions of regulations to enforce the spirit of half of the Ten Commandments, the rigging mechanisms will remain intact.
This U.S. presidential election is an
entertaining, but sad
affair. It reminds me a bit of the 1828 race between Andrew
Jackson and incumbent
John Quincy Adams. Adams was big-time establishment and Jackson
was the upstart
who had made a name for himself with his career up to that time.
Jackson didn’t
mind saying what was on his mind, and what was on his mind was
not favorable to
Adams who, in Jackson’s mind, had stolen the 1824 election. In
that election,
Jackson had won both the popular vote and apparently the
electoral college
votes, but then the Speaker of the House met with Adams and went
back to work
on the College. In the end, the College disregarded the election
results and
selected Adams as President. The Speaker became his Secretary of
State, and in
those days, the Secretary of State was the presumptive heir to
the presidential
throne. Presidents typically were Secretary of State first and
later President.
No wonder Jackson was hostile towards Adams. And Adams wasn’t
cozy with Jackson
either. Rigged elections are not new. Neither are rigged
economies. Maybe a
discussion about that next post.
In the meantime, our poor southerly neighbors
are trying to
decide which is the lesser of two evils. It’s too bad Gary
Johnson wasn’t
allowed into the televised debates. Neither the Republicans nor
the Democrats
want outsiders there. That is part of the rigging. And there is
no way anyone
wins that election without being in the debates. Too bad,
because candidate
Johnson seems to offer something better than conniving or
idiocy.
