If Hillary wins the election, she’ll get blamed for the inevitable crash. From James Howard Kunstler at kunstler.com:
All Hillary had to do last week was show up and stand at a podium for ninety minutes without swooning while Donald Trump barked and grunted his way through the half-assed press conference we like to call a “debate.” It was all I could do to keep watching the nauseating spectacle. It made you want to reach out and whap your TV upside its head, or maybe just shoot the fucker, like Elvis used to do.
The torment of who or what to vote for has become unbearable. I’d considered casting mine for Johnson / Weld, until Gary Johnson demonstrated that the front end of his brain is missing. Aleppo? Wasn’t he one of the Marx Brothers? I sense that Jill Stein of the Green Party is more Social Justice Warrior than EcoWarrior, and the last thing I want is for the rest of America to become one big college campus rife with trigger warnings and micro-aggression persecutions. Vote for Trump? Not if you chained me to the back bumper of a Toyota Landcruiser and dragged me over six miles of broken light bulbs. Hillary? Make that nine miles, and throw down some carpet tacks.
But wait a minute…! Here’s something to consider: a proposition put out by David McAlvany on his podcast last week: To Understand Election 2016 You Have to See 2020. (The new podcast is posted on Wednesdays, so to listen after Oct 5 you’ll have to click back a week.) The idea is that the winner of the presidential election is sure to be the biggest loser because the global economy is in the process of tanking, Long Emergency style, and the global finance system is going down with it. Whoever presides over this fiasco from the White House is going to be a bigger bag-holder than old Herbert Hoover in 1929.
The salutary part of the story is that such an epochal crack-up will sweep the establishment out of power. In the present case, this means discrediting the crony-capitalist, revolving-door grifters of the Wall Street / Washington axis, plus the neo-con military empire-builders bent on starting World War Three for profit, plus the economic central planners of the Federal Reserve whose desperate meddlings have nearly destroyed the necessary operations and meaning of money. And the cherries on top to get thrown out with the rest of this giant shit sundae would be the campus cultural Maoists. In short, vote for Hillary and let history flush them all out of the system.
A vote for Trump would let the aforesaid villains and bunglers off the hook because supposedly Trump represents free market business interests, and if he got elected they would be blamed for the economic and financial cataclysm which has been in motion for going on for two decades — and has accelerated mightily under the genial Obama. Whatever else you might say about free markets, had they been allowed to operate naturally, a lot of dead wood might have been cleared out of the financial forest by allowing failing institutions and companies to crash and burn. Instead, they were artificially propped up and hosed down with bailouts and other accounting frauds at all costs. The cost turns out to be the coherent workings of markets.
To continue reading: Sizing Up the Endgame
Kunstler at his usual and enjoyable best. In addition to my sketicism of his values, there is a problem with his political strategy as well.
Yes the inevitable is getting perilously close to being imminent. When the gaggle of “too big to think” banks and financial institutions becomes sufficiently mistrustful of each other, the “trigger” for what Kunstler and many believe will be the inevitable “unstoppable” version of the continuing financial crises, will become pulled.
Yes, when it occurs, as it eventually must, whoever is occupying power in Washington will “take the heat.” The problem is however, that in taking said heat, they will be the ones who will have it in their franchise to “turn up the heat” in response.
When considering in what fashion said heat will be raised, I will leave it to the reader’s imagination. The state of our culture – specifically, our moral/political values “at large” should provide the reader with all that they need to know about the resulting chaos.
What little remains of the moral/political values of individual liberty will likely be washed down the sewers along with the sewage of our current political diarrhea. Who will be blamed?
The military “victors,” of the chaos, brutality, and injustice to follow, will enable their supporters to write the necessary history assigning it.
Dave
You make a cogent argument. Its hard to envision in the current hyperventilated political climate, but I suspect when the Big One comes, the blame game will be the least of our concerns.