What is emerging from the chaos of America\u2019s ideological war between Democrats and Republicans is the emergence of a four-party system. Right now we have the establishment Republican Party, backed by wealthy corporate donors (the Mitt Romney\u2019s and Mitch McConnells), the corporate Democrats led (still) by Hillary Clinton, who have turned to the $71 billion oligarch Mike Bloomberg to save them, the socialist-populists led by AOC and Bernie Sanders, and the nationalist-populists led by Donald Trump. These are four distinct factions; two of which are breaking away from the traditional Democrat-Republican two-party system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is all for the good, for the Dem-Rep system has\ncompletely broken down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this four-party system there can be leakage and\ncoalitions between them. For example, Steve Bannon (former Trump campaign\nchief) suggests that an ideal ticket would be Trump as President and Bernie\nSanders as Vice President. This ticket would have the advantage of including\nthe two most dynamic representatives of the current political scene: the\nnationalist-populists and the socialist-populists. Although these two factions are\ndiametrically opposed policy-wise, they contain almost all of the patriots in\nthe US. By patriot I mean someone who wants the US to be as good as it can be,\nand who loves and supports their country and wants people to live successful\nlives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The establishment-corporate factions are in it for themselves. These are the hedge-fund managers, the venture capitalists, the big banks and the billionaires and their sons and daughters who pimp the system for their own benefit without a care to what\u2019s best for everyone. These are the people who got bailed out after 2008 to the tune of $3 trillion. The balance sheet of the Federal Reserve increased from about $800 billion in 2007 to over $4 trillion after all the \u201cquantitative easing\u201d and the infusion of cash from the Fed to bail out these elitists. These two factions are represented by the establishment Democrats and establishment Republicans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bernie and Trump represent the two most popular factions in\nthe country. A Trump-Sanders ticket would be a great way to heal the deep\npolitical wounds that have been inflicted on the body politic over the past four\nyears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Could Trump and Bernie work together? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I don\u2019t know but I think it\u2019s worth a try.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Both Bernie and Trump want to withdraw troops from Iraq,\nAfghanistan, and Syria. The opposition is what has been called the military-industrial\ncomplex, and the corporations who profit from war. Trump has necessarily had to\nbuild up the military in order to get the support needed within the military to\nend the endless wars. He and Bernie will be resolutely opposed by the\nRaytheons, the Booz-Allen Hamiltons, the Haliburtons, the Mitres, the CIA and their regime-change\nforeign policy, and the war hawks in the Pentagon who profit from war. United,\nhowever, Bernie and Trump would be a formidable political force for peace. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Most of the rest of the world will support the withdrawal of\nUS troops whole-heartedly. Those who don\u2019t will identify themselves as\nwarmongers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The troops can come home and rebuild our infrastructure. It\nwill be similar to FDR\u2019s New Deal, where unemployed people were put to work\nbuilding roads, bridges, and other infrastructure projects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Despite their rhetoric both Trump and Bernie are patriots.\nThey both want what is best for the country. Bernie would push for universal\nhealthcare and free college education, which would be made possible by stopping\nthe trillions misspent on endless war. Trump would get his infrastructure\nimprovements and a focus on America first. Both Bernie and Trump have the same\ngoals but don\u2019t know it. I\u2019d like to see a summit between the\nnationalist-populists and the socialist-populists to see if a deal could be\nworked out. The only enemies to such a deal are the warmongers, the haters, and\nthe corporate elitists. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Delusional? Maybe. But we have to start somewhere. The populists\non left and right should divorce themselves from the one-percenter elitist corporatists\nwho couldn\u2019t care less about the rest of us. The corporate Democrats are hard\nat work trying to steal the Democratic nomination from Bernie. Win or lose, I\u2019d\nlike to see Bernie and Trump combine forces. This way both populist factions\nwill be united. Who would run on the other side? More than likely Hillary would\nrun again, with VP Mike Bloomberg, representing the corporate elitists. A Hillary\nClinton-Mike Bloomberg ticket would be the perfect representative for the\ncorporatists. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bloomberg has already spent almost $400 million on a nationwide\nblanket ad campaign. He\u2019s worth $70 billion, a true American oligarch (Trump\u2019s\npaltry $3.1 billion net worth, according to Forbes<\/em>\nmagazine, pales in comparison). He\u2019s literally got billions to spend in an\nattempt to buy an election. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The 2020 election would be the populists versus the corporatists. I think Trump-Sanders would win in a landslide. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is emerging from the chaos of America\u2019s ideological war between Democrats and Republicans is the emergence of a four-party system. Right now we have the establishment Republican Party, backed by wealthy corporate donors (the Mitt Romney\u2019s and Mitch McConnells), … Continue reading