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Thursday, October 22, 2015
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The Spanish Inquisition
By Growltiger*
A blog ago, the fearless feline equated the Democrat-Republican Establishments to a binary star system in which two stars orbit their center of mass (the Federal Government).
To put it less astronomically, the Democrats get votes by bashing Wall Street and Big Business while the Republicans get elected by promising to rein in Big Government.
The reality is quite different. It is becoming increasingly evident that the Democrats are just fine with Big Business and Wall Street so long as Big Government gets bigger. For their part, the Republicans are just as fine with Big Government so long as Big Government doesn't do any permanent or irreparable harm to Big Business and Wall Street. Which is why the border has never been secured, the middle class has shrunk, small businesses are struggling while government employees and the much maligned one percent thrive. There isn't any recession in Washington's suburbs or in Manhattan. Nobody is worried about his job in DC, even if, like Lois Lerner, he or she uses the IRS to attack political rivals.
The election of 2016 was supposed to be more of the same--- Democrat Establishment candidate, Hillary Clinton, would rant and rail at Big Business and Wall Street (while pocketing millions from both in her campaign coffers and Foundation) and Republican Establishment candidate, Jeb Bush, would rail and rant at Big Government (while the media attacked him for being in Big Business' pocket). It really wouldn't matter to Big Government or Big Business which candidate won. It would be business as usual. If Bush won, government would get bigger, just at a slower pace. And if Clinton won, Big Business and Wall Street would continue to flourish albeit having to endure a few more regulations.
But as Monty Python liked to observe, nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition. To everyone's surprise and horror, a skunk by the name of Donald Trump arrived at the garden party.
Watching the GOP Establishment and its pundit class attack Donald Trump should leave no doubt in anyone's mind that cats make excellent astronomers. The Democrats and Republicans are as she observed, simply two stars orbiting a central mass called The Federal Government.
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