{"id":277596,"date":"2016-11-06T06:15:34","date_gmt":"2016-11-06T05:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-elections-expose-a-once-great-nation\/"},"modified":"2016-11-06T22:25:39","modified_gmt":"2016-11-06T21:25:39","slug":"the-elections-expose-a-once-great-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-elections-expose-a-once-great-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Elections Expose a Once-Great Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Enemies of the United States are joyously watching its upcoming elections that are exposing this once great nation as deeply corrupt.\u00a0 It\u2019s as if a huge rock has been turned over, exposing the swarming, slithering underside of America\u2019s political system.<\/p>\n

For those who admire America, like this writer, this week is a time to weep for the republic.<\/p>\n

We see two candidates who are utterly unfit for the highest office:\u00a0 Hilary Clinton, engulfed by scandals, and blustering TV mogul Donald Trump, a man of profound shallowness who advocates Islamophobia, torture, and environmental ignorance.<\/p>\n

Hillary Clinton\u2019s core supporters are black food stamp and welfare recipients, and legions of women who are voting simply by gender. Trump\u2019s core supporters are tax-paying workers who have watched Wall Street loot America\u2019s economy and send their jobs abroad.<\/p>\n

Like many people, I\u2019ve been tearing my hair trying to decide for whom to vote. \u00a0I now favor Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson who gained worldwide fame as a dolt when asked about the destruction of Aleppo, Syria.\u00a0 \u2018What\u2019s Aleppo?\u2019 asked this New Mexico Bismarck.<\/p>\n

Now that\u2019s the kind of president I\u2019d like to see.\u00a0 No more regime-changers and empire-builders.\u00a0 No more Imperial America.\u00a0 No more crusaders or world super power bullying.\u00a0 No more mucking around the world and acting as the globe\u2019s enforcer.\u00a0\u00a0 Let\u2019s forget Aleppo, Beirut, Gaza, Tehran, Islamabad, the South China Sea and North Korea.<\/p>\n

We can no longer afford to play \u2018Game of Thrones.\u2019\u00a0 We\u2019ve got to rebuild bridges and airports and clean the Augean Stables of Congress, America\u2019s most corrupt institution.\u00a0\u00a0 We just spent $2.8 billion on roads in remote Afghanistan while our own highways are crumbling.<\/p>\n

Such is the folly of imperialism.\u00a0 The old Soviet Union did something similar, allowing its domestic infrastructure and industry to fall apart while adventuring in Afghanistan, and deploying 55,000 tanks in the Red Army. These tanks were useful in putting down the heroic Hungarian Revolution of 1956 \u2013 60 years ago this week \u2013 but for nothing else.<\/p>\n

But I fear that whoever wins the US election will very quickly face major problems for which they are woefully unprepared.\u00a0 Most obvious is the bloody mess the US has created across the Mideast.<\/p>\n

I just learned that Trump recently named, as Mideast advisor, a notorious Muslim-hating fanatic, who is a Lebanese Maronite Christian fascist.\u00a0 His advice will likely be to invade Lebanon and Syria and kill more Muslims.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Enemies of the United States are joyously watching its upcoming elections that are exposing this once great nation as deeply corrupt.\u00a0 It\u2019s as if a huge rock has been turned over, exposing the swarming, slithering underside of America\u2019s political system. For those who admire America, like this writer, this week is a time to weep […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-277596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}