Voting for an American System Over a Corrupt Scheme

Sending Hillary Clinton to fix the problems in Washington, D.C., is like trying to unclog a drain by sending down a handful of hair.

You send Mr. Smith to Washington because he’s incorruptible. He isn’t owned by multinational corporations. He can’t be controlled by lobbyists, the media, or a political party. He’s naïve, he doesn’t always say the right thing, but he’s a patriot and fights for what’s right. Nobody wants to watch a movie called “Mrs. Political Machine Stays in Washington.” Or maybe they do — I guess we’ll find out in a few hours.

Corruption is a cancer that eats away at republics. Tonight, when America chooses between curing it or letting it spread, I’ll be rooting for the cure.

I’m hoping turnout will paint the map red tonight, because — despite what pop culture whispers in your ear — Progressivism isn’t cool, and I’m rooting for the celebrity exodus.

Have you heard? Bryan Cranston and Lena Dunham and oodles of rich celebrity-types are moving to Canada if Trump wins.

Wow — let’s all take a moment to be impressed with how high-minded these people are. But wait — potential snag — where will they go if fellow Canadians vote against their wishes? What if they never find a country that bends to their will? Anybody who leaves the country because democracy doesn’t go their way really doesn’t understand what America is all about. I say good riddance, and don’t let the purple mountain majesties hit you on the way out.

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Progressivism has to be about Jay Z, and Beyoncé, and Katy Perry. It has to be about character assassinations and how people feel instead of issues and facts. It has to have Jonathan Gruber tricking people “too stupid to understand” into supporting Obamacare and Ben Rhoades creating “echo chambers” so reporters won’t know that the Iran deal is garbage. It has to have opinion writers who check with the Democratic National Committee, then check with the Clinton campaign, and then write a story claiming half the country is racist. It has to have all that because it doesn’t have substance, common sense, reason, or ideas that actually work. Obama said you could keep your plan and your doctor, you couldn’t. He said premiums would be low, they’re high and climbing. He said ISIS was JV, they’re big league. He said ISIS was contained, they’re everywhere.

Progressivism isn’t about solutions, and it isn’t about progress. It’s about creating narratives that allow useless elites to cling to power. And the big narrative is that anyone who dares to disagree with them is scum scraped from the bottom of Satan’s shoe.

Hollywood celebrities, the mainstream media, and the progressive politicians are one giant voter-intimidation scam. They don’t stand outside your polling place with clubs. Instead, they call you names from afar: racist, xenophobic, sexist, deplorable. Obama called Trump inhuman and un-American.

They believe the people of this country who disagree with them are beneath them. They believe the government is like a parent to the people — helping them understand how to be less deplorable and less immoral.

In actuality, the government is not like a parent. It’s like a giant, slobbery, spoiled dog. The people hold the leash but the government is a very, very bad dog and sometimes it gets away. It got away big time during the Gilded Age when big businesses ran everything. There’s a famous cartoon by Joseph Keppler that shows the Senate, and lurking behind the senators are the fat, gigantic, money-bag bosses: the steel trust, the copper trust, the standard oil trust, et al. The cartoon is called The Bosses of the Senate.

Our system was designed to make political office holders subservient to their constituents. If you did something bad, the media exposed you, and you were voted out of office. Simple. You end up with government officials that have to serve the people or they get booted out of office.

Now, in our new Gilded Age, the bosses may represent different industries, but they’re still back there. Lurking. Pressuring. Not just in the Senate, but in the House, the White House, and even the Cabinet — who aren’t elected, but WikiLeaks taught us that Citigroup played a major role in choosing Obama’s cabinet. Maybe corporate donors choose Supreme Court justices, too.

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All of a sudden, if you want to keep the corporate money flowing into your campaign, doing a good job means serving the bosses instead of the people. Driving down wages with open borders and allowing companies to move overseas without losing access to the American consumer market are suddenly wonderful ideas. Both parties were all about it until Trump came along!

Now, real wages in most industries have been stagnant for decades and labor participation remains way down. This country is full of people of all races and religions whose lives are being ruined by progressive policies. There will never be a $700 billion bailout for these people because nobody in either party considers the middle class too big to fail. They consider the middle class the camel with the unbreakable back.

Corruption is a cancer that eats away at republics. Tonight, when America chooses between curing it or letting it spread, I’ll be rooting for the cure.

Eddie Zipperer is an assistant professor of political science at Georgia Military College and a regular LifeZette contributor.