Old Gadfly: Is there a puppet master at play
in the current presidential campaign?
IM: By your question, are you implying there is a
puppet master?
Old Gadfly: What do you think? Look at the dynamics. The media gives Trump more than three times
the coverage than all other Republican candidates combined. At recent events, organized instigators, in
particular, Moveon.org and Black Lives Matter, agitated crowds to promote photo
and video optics to generate news cycles, with the implication that Trump is
the source of the agitation.
AM: Trump certainly tapped into anger and
frustration that were present well before he began his campaign. So, in essence, while his language may come
across as bombastic and uncivil, he indicates that he clearly “feels your pain”
(something Bill Clinton seemed to get during his time). Yet, where are our brilliant journalists in
trying to figure out where that pain came from?
Quite frankly, people are tired of being marginalized and
disenfranchised by an administration that blatantly picks winners and losers, and
coerces behaviors (e.g., IRS healthcare insurance penalties), contrary to our
constitution and legal regime.
Old Gadfly: All great points, AM. However, in
regards to the current presidential campaign drama, do you see a puppet master
at play?
IM: Moveon.org
was funded
by George Soros. He also resourced
Black Lives Matter (to the tune of about $33 million) and supported
the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Old Gadfly: Now you see how the Trump Chicago
rally was deliberately manipulated for news cycle purposes. How about direct campaign funding?
AM: Now I get it. So far the top donor to the Democrat Hillary Clinton
campaign is over $7 million from the Soros
Fund Management. And the Republican John
Kasich campaign has received $200,000 from the same
source. This was enough to win his
state of Ohio and now Kasich will play his part in forcing a likely brokered
convention in July, potentially destroying the Republican Party. Progressives have long sought a single
political party, like their progressive icons--communists and fascists. This is a step in that direction.
Old Gadfly: So now you see who the puppets
are: Clinton, Kasich, and the
media. The drama seems to be playing out
exactly the way the puppet master envisioned.
These are consistent performances from the mastermind who earned his capitalistic
multi-billion fortune manipulating
national currencies and then spending it on manipulating societies in ways
that suits his personal “anti-capitalist” ideology of a utopian-open
society.
IM: How about the general public? Are they not puppets as well?
Old Gadfly: Not really. Like an audience of a puppet show, they only
get to evaluate the script. That script
has been written, and the puppets have been selected, by Soros. The media merely transmits the play.
Interesting concept. There's certainly some reason why the media blesses Trump with free publicity. I always thought it was because they felt he would be the easiest Republican for the Hildebeast to defeat. I suspect the media will turn on Trump when we get down to the final two.
ReplyDeleteI suspect you are correct.
DeleteIs not everyone aware of "the most evil person alive"
ReplyDeleteI believe Old Gadfly might be holding back just a little, although, he definitely nailed this one.
Gadfly,
ReplyDeleteYou might be sad to find out that I am a Kasich supporter. I find his positions to be closest to President Reagan.
- Rob
Hi, Rob,
DeleteI would vote for Kasich.
The only two candidates who have received support from Soros are Clinton, over $7 million, and Kasich, over $200 thousand (which does not look good for a Republican). Even Sanders has received no Soros funding . . . yet. My sense I that Soros had no intent of Kasich getting elected. He only wanted Kasich to take his home state to make a brokered convention more likely.
I blame Kasich's slow start on our fabulous media. They did not give him a chance to differentiate himself. Of all the candidates (when there were 17), Kasich was in my top three--all governors.
Trump may turn out to be the Black Swan because he understood, perhaps even more so than Sanders, that there has been a lot of pent up frustration/anger--a lot of it stemming from progressive actions/policies over the past seven to nine years. Winning hearts and minds . . . if there is a conflict between mind and heart, the heart will trump (no pun intended) the mind. Then the mind will follow.
Best,
Gadfly
Gadfly,
DeleteThank you for explaining your position.
Like I said, of the Republican candidates, I found Kasich to be the most Reagan-like candidate. He has Reagan’s positive message, conservative politics, and is also pragmatic like Reagan. If Cruz had not intentionally alienated his fellow Republicans, he would be able to unite the party right now. However, his politics and style are more like Joseph McCarthy, and as a result, he is unlikely to be the candidate the party rallies around. I think you are correct about Trump understanding voters’ anger. Did you see the study that showed the only common characteristic among his voters is authoritarianism? It is found here: http://www.vox.com/2016/2/23/11099644/trump-support-authoritarianism. John W. Dean wrote about a similar topic in Conservatives without Conscience (http://www.amazon.com/Conservatives-Without-Conscience-John-Dean/dp/0143038869/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1458173642&sr=8-1&keywords=dean+conservative).
I mentioned to someone today that one big difference between Eisenhower and MacArthur was that Eisenhower was in authority but not authoritarian, while MacArthur was very authoritarian but a better strategist.
My sons like Rubio. I also liked him, but voted for Kasich. I guess it is a generational thing.
-Rob
Excellent points, Rob. Thank you.
DeleteI think you give too much credit to grand designs manipulated by exceptionally competent puppetmasters. The world is too complex for that scale of machinations to work out as planned; they 'gang aft agley,' the sooner the more convoluted the scheme.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely nobody took Trump seriously when he announced, but as complex adaptive systems do, true to form, he provided the lightning rod (tag) for that simmering discontent out there--at the economy, at political correctness, and at the liberal agenda being forced on them.
I, like some of your other readers, like Kasich's balance, and I hope he somehow does come out of a brokered convention as the nominee. Soros et al. will always try to find ways to manipulate results to fit their ends, but puppetmaster is something best left to spy novels.
NerfGun,
ReplyDeleteThank you for the observation. Loved the Robert Burns "gang aft agley" expression for "go often askew"! Very appropriate. Scale certainly does matter, but I'm sure the Brits still feel singed from Soros's financial tampering (http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/08/george-soros-bank-of-england.asp).
Cheers,
Gadfly
Ordinarily I would dismiss conspiracy theories, like Gadfly's Soros ponderings. But look at how extensive his tentacles are, with several front groups, and one can see he doesn't need to be a perfect (or well-hidden) puppet master to attempt manipulating the US political system. BTW comparing to Cruz to McCarthy is meaningless. The McCarthy mythos has grown into a caricature, with things attributed to him that never happened. It doesn't mean anything anymore.
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