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Junious Ricardo Stanton
Political Circuses

Both the Republican National Convention in Cleveland Ohio and the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia are fraught with controversy and hypocrisy but with recent events: the attempted coup in Turkey, the bombings in Nice and the shooting of Blacks and police officers here in the US we will see just how deranged corrupt and megalomaniacal the American political process really is. The two major political parties are really two sides of the same coin a corporate owned duopoly created and put in place to do the bidding of the 1%.
In Cleveland the Republicans nominated Donald Trump a wealthy real estate mogul with no governance experience whatsoever as their standard bearer. The Democrats will nominate the consummate 1%er, Washington insider and warmonger Hillary Clinton. Trump is the fly in the buttermilk for the Republican Party. The ruling class hates Donald Trump because he openly proclaims the system is rigged against working stiffs and routinely lambasts D.C. politicians for their ineptitude, greed and malfeasance. He mocks their sacrosanct positions on war, NATO, and the economy.
Trump frightens Republicans with his off the cuff, ill thought out rhetoric. The party even went against the will of the people, tried to dump him but failed. How can a party that nominated an idiot like George W. Bu$h, who only won because the US Supreme Court packed with Reagan and Bu$h appointees interfered with the vote count fear someone like Trump? If the bland totally white bread Republicans could nominate lames like John McCain and Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan how in the world can they not want an attention grabbing, pop culture icon like Donald Trump? He's the perfect circus ringmaster. Obviously the reason they fear Trump is because he is an outsider, he's not one of the political class good ol' boys.
Hillery Clinton doesn't have that problem. She is the consummate 1% insider, crook and warmonger. She is the candidate of Wall Street, the military industrial complex, Big Pharma and fast money. For her that's a problem and Trump will blast her to high heaven for it, is her entitlement attitude and her long record of cronyism and deception.
Hillery Rodham cut her teeth working for Barry Goldwater an ultra conservative who opposed the 1964 Civil Rights legislation and all other progressive social legislation. Ever the opportunist Hillary married Bill Clinton and embarked on a life of "public service" that has made them rich beyond their wildest dreams.
As president Bill Clinton sold out the traditional Democratic Party constituency: organized labor, Blacks, women and progressives when he and Al Gore replicated Nixon's Southern Strategy, courted corporate money and pivoted towards a neoliberal globalist agenda that facilitated US jobs being shipped overseas. That corporate partnership and their years of access to the rich and well connected both legal and illegal have made Bill and Hillery super rich.
Both national conventions are circuses. They will trot out their most eloquent speakers, hoop, holler, lie and make promises they have no intention of keeping. Both parties will attempt to soothe the angst, anxiety and contempt the masses feel towards the political process. They will try to convince the American people they are sincere, that they feel our pain and will make things right again. They will put on a great show, spend lots of money then hit the campaign trail determined to maintain the status quo.
Don't fall for the okey-doke. Neither party has our best interests at heart. Neither party is going to redirect the trillions currently going to the military industrial complex to rebuilding the crumbling American infrastructure. Neither party is going to reevaluate US foreign policy, to go from war to peace, neither party is going to disengage the US from NATO and neither party is going to minimize the influence of the NRA, Wall Street, AIPAC or other special interest group money in politics. Neither party is going to embrace the desire for real change or do something for the people for a change. Hey be happy the circuses will give us some very entertaining moments.

Posted By: Junious Stanton
Tuesday, July 26th 2016 at 9:40AM
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Brother Junious Ricardo Stanton,

The one of the most important point that I am watching is what impact on what party will the Supreme Court have on my life and the life of our people in the long run. Here recently, the Republican Party had a short hold on that form of government which overturned the will of the people and apportioned Bush as president, gutted the civil rights act and made it OK to make money speech and to make corporation's people.

I know that The Republican Party Platform agenda is not for people of color and they have a man as the head of their party who don't want to led, he wants to rule and a VP who the common people in his state says that he was not a good and fair governor, that is to far to the religious right.
Tuesday, July 26th 2016 at 2:14PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.

Deacon Gray,
The whole US political system is totally corrupt even bothTrump and Sanders say so. Hillary Clinton is the embodiment of all that is corrupt and evil about the system. The DNC E-mail scandal reveals just how rigged the system is; yet Bernie Sanders and the rest of the Judas goats tell the people to vote for Clinton!? And our people will probably go for the okey-doke. For me the only viable options are on the local level where you may be able to control, determine or have a say about the school board, local councils, budgets and some zoning, land use or taxation policy issues etc. Other than that we are fooling ourselves if we think this presidential election or any other is going to make a huge difference in the quality of our lives.
Tuesday, July 26th 2016 at 3:14PM
Junious Stanton

It's always worthwhile to vote third-party. Right now they may have only 10-15% between the two of them but, someday maybe...
Tuesday, July 26th 2016 at 3:47PM
Steve Williams

I voted Jill last time, call it the gender card.
Tuesday, July 26th 2016 at 3:49PM
Steve Williams

Mr. Stanton,

First, let me assure you that you don't have to be afraid of my superior intelligence that others are afraid of because of the questions I present that tips them over.

In a blog I presented this question.
I said that in February of 1870 Black Americans descendents of plantation slaves were given the right to vote by White Americans our former slave masters. Since then right up to the present date July 2016 Black Americans have been rioting and protesting in the streets of White America against abuse and oppression of White Americans.

The question is this. What good has voting done for Black Americans in 150 years since Black Americans continue to be abused and oppressed by White Americans?

The gist of this blog of yours supports the causes for me to ask that question, what good has voting done for Black Americans? My answer is not a thing!

Therefore, I say again to you that I will only permanent solution is that we desire become a sovereign people in a country of our own as I have described.

Your response was that nothing is permanent. However, that was not the question. The question is the desire to become a sovereign people in a country of our own. Then, you agreed with me that sovereignty is a good idea. Isn't it time that you become serious first with yourself and then with me and discuss sovereignty because it's going to happen?
Tuesday, July 26th 2016 at 7:38PM
Harry Watley

Mr Williams,
The US is a banana republic. The rigged political system was set up from the very beginning to prevent national or regional third parties from competing and winning. In fact most third parties rarely get on the ballot in every state. They have to spend large amounts of money to sue just to get o the ballot which takes time and money, money most of them don't have. Even if they do get on the ballot they can easily be cheated out of the election just like Sanders was in the 2016 primary. The DNC's own E-mails reveal just how corrupt and crooked the process is. So you know a third party candidate hasn't a snowball's chance in an oven.
Tuesday, July 26th 2016 at 7:44PM
Junious Stanton

Mr. Stanton, in the beginning the country took stances on issues, such as Federalism. In 2016 the system survives based only on the will of the people. If the people willed it they could change it.
Wednesday, July 27th 2016 at 7:47AM
Steve Williams

There will be 10-15% of us who continue to fight.
Wednesday, July 27th 2016 at 7:48AM
Steve Williams

Political Circuses

SUBJECT

Since 1776 it has been an Assembly of Circus Clowns at THEIR politicalThought

1. 'whiteFaced'... 'paganChristian'... Racist CLOWNS....WROTE

...."All men are Created EQUAL"
...."endowed by their Creator with rights of LIFE, LIBERTY and Pursuit of Happiness"

2. 'whiteFaced'... 'paganChristian'... Racist CLOWNS....GENERATIONALLY raped, tortured, pedophiled, murdered

... AND CLOWNED.....'redFaced' 'brownFaced' and 'blackFaced' "..humanBeings..."

3. FORGET the bananaRepublics, the federalisticKKK ers....., STOP the CLOWNING.....

take OFF the clownFaces and READ and LIVE the CONSTITUTION.......not some animalCircus misconceptions.

Wednesday, July 27th 2016 at 9:46AM
robert powell

WOW!!!

Wednesday, July 27th 2016 at 12:59PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.

Political Circuses

SUBJECT

CIRCUS Clowns...OR....euroRacistly Ignorant paganChristians have been CLOWNING africanAsian -- nativeFolks in America since the start....

---- the British Army in 1750 WAS the militia that ALLOWING georgeWashington to become the GREATEST private nonKing....... LAND owner in the world..... and owner of Washingtions.....

This Washington and his rapist brothers....Jefferson/monroeJackson etal..... then CLAIMED they were notFREE....

----- the enemies of England .... franceGermanySpain....then helped these goodOle BOIs...OR ...CLOWNS in the woods.... to drag the Empire... until the empire let these treacherous Monsters of rape, torture and murder....go .... with good riddance .... Circus acts...

These CLOWNS in the woods were always free...land of the free to do the MOST heinous, Crimes that any men have EVER done on the Planet Earth......

yes, deacon of kingJamesVersionists ...... WOW......

Monday, September 19th 2016 at 7:24PM
robert powell