Tomorrow is Super Tuesday. Several states are holding their primaries, mostly in the south. This is a day that could separate candidates and come up with a clear front-runner for each party. The polls, which really haven’t been all that accurate this year say that Trump and Clinton are leading in most states. About the only state Trump isn’t leading in is Texas where Cruz has a slim margin.
The Democrats offer two candidates similar yet different. Bernie Sanders is more of an outsider than Hillary Clinton. When the primary season began, Clinton was the odds on favorite to win the nomination. Sanders has thrown a monkey wrench in the works, but he still trails by quite a big margin. Tomorrow could spell the end of his campaign even though he says that he will fight on till the convention.
The biggest argument between these two is who is the biggest “progressive”. Sanders has openly called himself a Democrat Socialist. Hillary tries to convey her message as a progressive, but not necessarily a “socialist”. Still their policies are very close to each other. The biggest distinction between them and their Republican counterparts is they want to end the redistribution of the wealth to the rich. Something the Republicans love.
The Republican side offers more drama. Of course, when the three front-runners are all crazy people looking for power and not an opportunity to “govern” what do you expect? I find it extremely pathetic when Cruz and Rubio start claiming that Trump is a “racist” when a former head of the KKK endorsed him. And, let’s be honest. The only reason Cruz or Rubio didn’t get Duke’s endorsement is because he believes them to be members of an “inferior” race.
When a party is favor of a platform that basically steamrolls everyone except the rich, takes civil rights away from people based on race, religion, or sexual orientation, you cannot call it anything but racist. Yet, the media won’t do that because they seem to want to believe that when Republicans say that their policies intended to hurt the vast majority of the American people and say it will be good for them, the media lets them get away with it and refuses to call them liars.
Now we have a situation where the two main challengers to Trump are trying to make him out to be a racist on one hand, and a liberal on the other. This “liberal” thing came up repeatedly in the last debate. For example, Cruz tried to attack Trump over his healthcare plan, which no one knows the specifics of. The conversation went”
Cruz: Did you say that if you want people to die in the streets, if you don’t support socialized healthcare, you have no heart?
Trump: Correct. I will not let people die on the streets if I am President.
Cruz: Have you said you are a liberal on healthcare?
The exchange went on until the moderator put a stop to it. Rubio wanted so much to get into the argument, but was cut off. On the other hand, his plan will eliminate Medicaid and The Children’s Health Insurance Program. According to these two “candidates” it is being soft-hearted and liberal to consider healthcare more important than tax cuts. According to Rubio, I would guess that if you are a five-year old with cancer, you should get a full-time job that offers healthcare insurance. Otherwise, oh, well too bad for you.
All three say that Muslims should be barred from immigrating to this country. All three say that we should build a wall between us and Mexico to keep those damn Latinos out. They all agree we should deport 11 million undocumented immigrants. And, they all agree that homosexuality should be a crime and anyone can discriminate against any of those people.
The Republican establishment is worried. They are worried that Trump could actually win the nomination. When Christie endorsed him, the establishment called him a “traitor”. I am wondering what will be said about Senator Sessions endorsing Trump the other day. Everyone expected Sessions to support Cruz since they are both right-wing nut-jobs.
I would think that says more about just how much Cruz is hated by his own colleagues than anything else. Here is a right-wing nut from Alabama endorsing Trump and not the Tea Party favorite Ted Cruz. Yet, Cruz thinks he would be an effective president. Yeah, right!
Yes, the Republican Primaries being held tomorrow on Super Tuesday are worth watching. The main players are all ignorant, racist, fascists who wish to destroy our country. It will be interesting just how crazy the Republican Party will be tomorrow. Are they going to nominate a TV Realty Star, a bigot who wants to use the Constitution to basically shred the Constitution, or a cowardly Senator who can’t even show up and do the job he was elected to do. The same cowardly Senator who helped write a comprehensive immigration bill and then walked away from it because too many right-wing nuts were opposed to it.
This election will have major ramifications over what kind of country we actually will be. It will affect more than what we talked about so far. It affects education, climate change, science, religion, liberties, freedoms, terrorism, security, privacy and even torture. If one of these people actually gets into the White House, we will see an end to our democracy and our constitution. Which one gets in will determine what kind of dictator we get, not if we will get a dictator.
In my opinion, tomorrow we get a clearer understanding if the Republicans are going to offer us a choice between Hitler, Mussolini, or Toto. You can take your pick as to which candidate fits which dictators profile better. In either case, the American people will be the losers, again.
And the “shirts” keep marching along!
