Debate Wrap-Up: Tim Kaine and Mike Pence Agreed on Some Terrifying Policies

Thanks for this analysis. I am particularly concerned by Hillary’s relationships and support for dictators in Central America. The US has created such devastation there and no one seems to worry about this. Kaine knows better from having been there. He knows the devastation of US involvement if he paid attention at all to Jesuit sensibilities and liberation theology.

Big Debt Problem + Troops in Syria + Putin is Evil + More Spending on US Military = Destroy Syria + Frack Oil + Invade Iran + Hike Oil Prices

Hike Oil Prices + Invade Iran = WW3

China has something like 55 recognised minorities amongst the ethnic composition of the country’s 1.2billion people, but of those 92% are Han Chinese and despite rumblings in the Tarim Basin and pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong and elsewhere, it is for all intents and purposes a very strong, united and nationalistic country that would totally and almost unanimously reject the idea of either being subservient to or having its economic progress checked by a foreign power. Attempts to undermine this solidity are ruthlessly put down with little complaint from the vast majority of the population, who recognise the dangers they face to their economic growth and national security and are not exposed to the endless softening and dumbing down of the realpolitik as is the case in the West.

America has a population of around 324million people of a wide range of ethnicities few of whom are fully committed to the country in a way that they would willingly give their wealth or their life for the present power-elite’s benefit. They have a large and technically superior army, but again they lack the manpower to put boots on the ground in a global theatre of war, and they lack the morale to handle large volumes of casualties again for fighting “someone else’s” war. Therefore any political party that wishes to engage in a prolonged and global-scale hot war will need to ruthlessly put down widespread resistance to such aggression against foreign nations, huge waste of money, and unnecessary loss of life, going completely against the the ideas of the “Land of the Free” and the place where immigrants can always find a better life. The USA has never been involved as the primary agent of aggression in a world war and so is untested against a strong and determined opponent on the scale of China and Russia and any other allies. It entered the last two world wars late and has since then conducted campaigns only against seriously inferior opposition, a situation that has likely made it somewhat arrogant and believing in its own right to Destiny.

Russia is around 1,000 years old as an identifiable state and during that time it has been at near-constant war with opponents of equal or greater capabilities and has, despite some near-catastrophically self-harming actions, emerged on nearly every occasion stronger as the victor. In the recent past it also managed the transition from a Soviet-style closed system at loggerheads with the West to a far more open modern economy with relatively few problems and gave up most of its Eastern Bloc territories and cut back on most of its hostile military activities towards its former adversaries, yet it remains vilified in certain sectors of the West that benefit from the continuance of the idea of a “Cold War”. It is also criticised to lacking a free press and proper democratic process, despite both of these being now absent from the USA. Its lands are so vast and improperly understood by adversaries that they are often seen as its greatest protection, and despite negative propaganda to the contrary by the Western media, its people remain strongly behind its heads of state and its own identity as Russia.

Iran is arguably the oldest extant nation in the world and its realms have been the crossroads of history through which countless armies have marched. Despite this its people remain as they have always been: Iranian. And these peoples are the likely origins of Europeans and the very language we are communicating in now, brought by mobile horsemen superseding the tongues of the sedentary farmers of the Eastern Europe plains and pushing all those before them ever westward leaving the like of the Basques and the Finns clinging to the far-flung shores. Iran sits at the heart of Eurasia and forms the basis of all our wider histories, just as Africa’s Rift Valley does before it. To call it an insane and dangerous regime incapable of peacefully owning nuclear weapons and denying it the no rights to defend itself is hypocrisy on the part of the USA, both from its own dangerous imperialism and nuclear bullying and its ignorance of similar nuclear-armed states such as Israel, South Africa and Saudi Arabia that easily out-tip Iran on the insane and dangerous stakes.

I reject these men that talk of war, that talk of “American Exceptionalism”, that believe the world is only there for America’s elite to exploit and apportion to its favourites as it sees fit. Their call is invalid, corrupt, greedy, self-serving, hubristic, arrogant, illegal, hateful, megalomaniacal, disgraceful to humanity, and insane and will be remembered as such and their time of reckoning may be at hand.

As the primaries continued last year with Sanders and Clinton, literally all polling showed Sanders beating Trump consistently in double digits and Clinton only beating Trump by a few points.

Then the stupid Democrat debate scheduling was released showing debate dates conflicting with big football games, Christmas Eve etc. and people scratched their heads. Plus the number of debates had been significantly reduced.

Then the DNC hack occurred just before the convention detailing how the DNC’s “mission” was not to have a free and fair election season but that in fact Sanders was being thrown under the bus by the DNC in favor of Clinton.

Clinton and the DNC had the Superdelegates in the bag prior to one vote being cast.

Clinton was under criminal investigation by the FBI and the enthusiasm of voters, especially the youth vote was clearly with Sanders.

But the DNC and the Superdelegates chose the unindicted Neocon criminal who is incapable of telling the truth to be their nominee.

Now, here we are 30 some days from Election Day with two horrible candidates and their horrible running mates.

We could have had Sanders and probably a young Rep. Tulsi Gabbard as the VP candidate. Massive enthusiasm for Sanders and his platform of a “Medicare for All” healthcare system, free college tuition for those who qualify and can’t afford to pay, fair negotiations for drug pricing, a more just approach to the Israeli/Palestinian quagmire, no more regime change wars and on and on.

We had the chance to elect a real Progressive. Now we have the real possibility of losing the ACA leaving millions with no health care or the status quo of keeping it and Americans being gouged with higher and higher premiums and deductibles, the real possibility of WW III with either Clinton or Trump where I believe it would have been near zero with Sanders.

The Democrat Party and the DNC, by forcing Clinton on the country, a candidate who is completely compromised, lost the real chance of resurrecting the party of FDR and JFK.

Now, thanks to the corrupt DNC, we may very well see the electoral map turn red on election night as we witness the death of the Democrat Party.

A third party will take its place in 2020, if the world manages to survive until then.

It’s hard to offer an alternative vision to voters when you spend the entire time quibbling with your nominal opponent over who can pass the most extreme right-wing policies imaginable while lying about it.

That’s odd- both candidates make me LESS wanting to vote for their candidates.

Kaine got his ass kicked,and exposed HRCs judgement once again as shite.
And the MSM meme of the day;Trump is jealous of his running mate.Sheesh.
We are voting for DT not Pence,and he definitely has bad ideas re Syria and the world,but definitely less bad than the Hell Bitch and her fellow idiot running mate.