That's A Given

The Los Angeles Times recently allowed one of its columnist to write that a Trump victory and follow-up presidential misstep would seemingly justify a military coup. This is indeed inflammatory language at a deeply inflammatory time. The Times needs to print an explanation for its reckless editorial actions. We hope this writer didn't sincerely mean that. But the Times needs to publish its position on such.

Recently, Americans had to endure a Supreme Court justice spewing forth her personal, hateful political views publicly. Most of us grew up knowing they, being human, had their their personal views but being leaders and public icons had the will power and decency to keep them private. It lent the system, phony or otherwise, an air of impartiality. Once out of the bottle, however, that genie is pretty tough to get back. Over the years we've had radio and television personalities who make no public claim to probity lose their jobs for a lot lessor offenses. In the name of any shred of human decency, RBG needs to take a clue from one of her fellows socialists, Mr. Hollande, and pull her own personal Brexit.  Resign now.

Our contrarian take is a Hilary victory will fuel the flames of anger, resentment and rage more as she and her Wall Street elite friends try to take us closer to one world government, one world currency and global socialism. People around the globe are rebelling against absentee landlord rule.

The system is rigged and more and more are awakening to it. The proximity between the Eccles Building in Washington and Wall Street is more than just geographic as one writer quoted in this weekend's Barron's: "Wall Streeters  have told Trump to 'cool it' in his criticism of Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen." Any pretense that the Fed is an independent entity is just that--pretense.

The biggest risk today is for the entrenched elite to overestimate the public's tolerance and patience. People are pissed off, deeply pissed off:  Overtaxed, underrepresented and marginalized, much it owing to the last several years of political correctness. Glass ceilings, to be sure, are limiting. But at least they were once there, a goal one could aim for however limited. What exists now is a profound and quite possibly irreparable chasm between the rich and the poor. And in case the rich are unaware of it, the poor outnumber them quite seriously.

In the the past several months there have been several articles about the rich building their hideaway caves, plotting their escapes. This in itself is an admission of quilt. Underemployment is a serious problem and the robots are not all here yet. Brexit, Trump traction, global push back against centralized authority are just symptoms of the nasty underlying disease that infests society on a world scale today. The big dogs showed up earlier and scared the Scots from exiting the UK.

But the big dogs are losing their influence quicker than Hilary changes her positions. The so-called democratic process has a bad case of pernicious anemia globally. The name calling, epithet-labeling from MSM  and both of these bankrupt political parties is a good way to maybe win a battle but lose the big skirmish. The gauntlet is down. People get it. And contrary to MSM propaganda, it cuts across all racial, religious, educational and party lines.

Feelings run deep. The last time this nation witnessed such a major division on such a major scale was a bit over 150 years ago. Few squabbles ever match the bitterness and acrimoniousness of family ones. That's a given.