Excellent analysis looking at the coming revolution that the political class still doesn’t understand. But they will in November.
ST. LOUIS~~The people who spend two bucks for chili at the Courtesy Diner at Laclede Station Road can’t fathom why anyone would pay Hillary Clinton $225,000 to make a speech.
Nor can they understand why the U.S. Senate is taking a 17-day break for Easter after spending much of their time last week fuming over the Supreme Court vacancy. Somehow, people all over America are saying loudly and clearly this election year, Washington and its enablers – the media, the political pros and Wall Street – don’t understand us.
That’s why, all over this slice of middle America, exasperated people got up before dawn on a cold, 37-degree morning recently to spend four hours in a line so long that from its end people couldn’t even see the Peabody Opera House, where they would hear Donald Trump. And it wasn’t just Trump. In the next two days, other folks nearby lined up to hear the outsider talk from Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Bernie Sanders, Ind.-Vt.
They share the same grievance. In 2016 America, the deepest divide is not between Democrats and Republicans. It’s not even between conservatives and liberals. It’s between Us and Them – the people versus The Establishment.
In dozens of interviews, in a cross section of the country, the sentiments were the same.
“They’re political bureaucrats who would like to control the people,” said Sandy Garber, a St. Charles real estate agent, when asked to define the establishment.
John Hackmann, a Fairview Heights, Ill., retiree, labeled it a “Washington cartel.”
“They just let the government do whatever they want,” said Jim Walker, an Arnold, Mo., businessman.
What is the establishment? Nationally, eight in 10 people told a McClatchy-Morning Consult poll this month it includes members of Congress. Similar numbers cited the Democratic and Republican parties, political donors, Wall Street bankers and the mainstream media.
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The establishment (career politicians, elites, lawyers, wealthy, corporate executives, those in powerful positions)
The ones most out of touch with common Americans! Yet their decisions stress out most Americans today.
Not to mention, they do not care about the day to day issues we as Americans face. They also do not show social etiquette or sympathy towards tragedies which cripple our nation or, any other nation for that matter. It is me, myself, and I….me…me…me!
Look at our Seniors, our Vets, our country men! They suffer at the expense of government cuts. Cannot pay their bills, or buy groceries, or cover all of their medical expenses. Yet, the Senate goes on Easter break??? I think I am going to puke!!
And Paul Ryan supplies the answer, Alfred E. Neuman. Ryan has informed that he gave up, ‘impatience and anxiety’ for Lent. What me worry?, is the establishment leadership policy. Will come in handy when looking for a job.