"Hillary's "Stronger Together" was a good choice for her."
I took it as a dig against Trump, who I see as telling unsophisticated voters some group who looks different from them is the cause of their problems. So "Stronger Together" is a way of saying "my opponent wants to divide you." I generally agree Trump is divisive, so it was a "good" political dig.

"each side wants to take from the other without giving up anything."
Yes. I think it's almost a natural consequence of the gov't being so big-- people fight for a share of the big gov't pie instead of going out in the world and making their own little pie. It's bad situation.

All tyrants and dictators rely on the support (taxes, obedient armies, obedient law enforcement, obedience of the citizens, etc.) of the people they govern. If that support is refused they are unable to accomplish any of their goals. All taxpayers support the evil that is forced upon them even when they claim they are part of the opposition which in reality are the nascent power seekers who are temporarily on the power out and will submit to any wrongdoing ordered by their leaders in the hopes that they will be the next power 'ins' and the others will be the 'outs'.

Thanks for the detailed reply.
"If criticizing her for that is shameless.."
I only meant criticisms of her husbands affairs and her reaction to them.
"you said nothing about the current allegations against Hillary Clinton concerning Uranium One and the Trump Dossier."
I don't think those are lurid stories.
Uranium One: I think there's nothing to it. It think it's all politics. I'm glad they investigate it, but it sounds like nothing to me.
Trump Dossier: I suspect that there was a tacit understanding that DNC payments were being funded through that law firm to the firm that produced the dossier, and I suspect Clinton knew something like that was happening, although I don't have a guess as to whether she knew the details. The reason I think that is Clinton is experienced in politics, and Trump isn't, which makes digging up dirt a likely line of attack for a politician (good at playing dirty) against a non-politician with a history of working in TV and beauty pageants (where salacious dirt is likely to happen). So it rings true.

It's odd that the dossier didn't come out before the election. Maybe the campaign make a strategic decision that it would backfire. Or maybe the left hand really didn't know what the right hand was doing.

"Those potential crimes are as worthy, if not more so, of investigation as potential Trump-Russian collusion."
I'm glad they're investigating, keeping people honest. I have always thought the Trump-Russian "collusion" claims were bogus.

Curious how attempts to repeal Obamacare only worked out for RINOs when Obama was the POTUS.
Whoa! New thought. That DID work out for the RINOs.
O was in power for 8 years. That means everyone of those RINOs had to deal with being reelected during that time frame.
Never mind. Me dino no longer views the hypocrisy as curious.
As pathetic? Yeah. Pathetic. Pathetic representation.

Hillary's "Stronger Together" was a good choice for her. She is crooked as the day is long, and her supporters could see that and wanted to attach themselves to her coat tails so they could get free goodies like she did too. Its all about getting whatever you can from others in this country. Too bad, cause its going to crash hard when it goes. No wonder the country is divided- each side wants to take from the other without giving up anything. That is just unsustainable.

Exactly true, unfortunately. They talked about repealing Obamacare, but even our "savior" Trump caved into "repeal AND REPLACE" and couldnt even get that !! I want repeal, period.

I want OUT of Afghanistan and IRAQ. Put that money into defense of our country. I want the elimination of the federal reserve and a return to the gold standard for the USA. No deficit spending for government at all,

Somehow I think these things would never make it past the establishment, until the establishment system just crashes. The future shown in AS was right.

No...I think this nails down something. There's a big "Why!?" in many of our minds. Why is our society acting this way? This draws the parallel that one of our modern champions may also be a major cuck. I see my fellow citizens going so low as to sacrifice their own children on the alter of government and I can't believe it. "Why?", I keep asking... Maybe they love it.

That scene in 1984 where he asks OBrien what the purpose of the torture is: "The torture is the purpose." People are embracing destruction. Would they even elect a leader who is true to his wife and children? I have serious doubts.

I'm going to sit with a big glass of syrah tonight and read through this completely.

Thank you. It's a labor of love.

Damn, that's good writing..."How do you account for the American people’s long infatuation with government? Is it love coupled with denial? How many are like the cuckold who repeatedly find his wife in bed with other men? They remain smitten even as the government goes from lie to lie, betrayal to betrayal. Consider a list of political prevarications, by no means exhaustive."

CircuitGuy,

Those who defend Hillary Clinton are "shameless." To pick one of just many examples. She trashed the reputations and went after the women who accused her husband--on quite substantial grounds--of sexual harrassment, sexual assault, and rape. If criticizing her for that is shameless, then criticizing someone who criticizes her for that is even more so.

These are the same crimes for which Harvey Weinstein and others have been exposed and will be subject to both civil suits and criminal prosecution. Hillary Clinton was a potentially criminal accessory to Weinstein-like behavior, using her platform and power to denounce as "trailer park trash" and otherwise persecute a woman who won a $800,000 settlement from her husband. That's the truth, and to call someone to account for such behavior is simply telling the truth and asking that she be subject to legal process.

I notice you said nothing about the current allegations against Hillary Clinton concerning Uranium One and the Trump Dossier. I suppose my bringing it up was another "lurid cheap shot." However, there is a substantial possibility that under our "lurid cheap" laws, she committed crimes up to and including treason. Those potential crimes are as worthy, if not more so, of investigation as potential Trump-Russian collusion. If you want lurid cheap shots, check out the so-far unsubstantiated Trump dossier.

We get your point but as for hiltery, she is not an individual human being...we don't know what she is but sure is one vile demented creature. Conscious humans, no matter how misguided would never say, act, do or think the way it does. It reminds me of the Nephilim idiots that ruled over us at one time.

This seems like a bunch of really shameless criticism of Hillary Clinton, and then a logical leap saying this is somehow related to our failure to recognize gov't doing all it does is unsustainable. The criticism of her on the basis of her husband's philandering is particularly low. It detracts from the real problem that the gov't maintaining a massive empire and managing citizens' retirement, healthcare, and education is not sustainable. It's a looming mini-crisis, maybe a full-on crisis. Most people wait until it comes to ahead before even thinking about it. When the mini-crisis happens, they'll ask ""hoocoodanode!?"

I suppose if you had to write an article about this huge problem for an audience bored by economics but able to pay attention to lurid cheap shots demonizing an individual, this is what it would look like. It could be part of the school curriculum for low-life thugs in juvenile detention who can't focus on studies but are transfixed by a brawl. Maybe they could read this and learn something unsustainable gov't.

Have any of them done anything to get rid of O-care, enforce immigration laws, stop the feds' spying on Americans (instead of helping the feds do it), stop other socialist policies that loot from producers, or punish those obviously guilty of murder or treason?
Answer: No
They desire power and/or wealth and they use government to get it, by stealing from others.

Have we been asleep or what...everyone's America except ours.
Not sure about mccain or mr pineapple but the babuskies were globalist and possibly worse than that.

Thank you.

I wish it was only the left, but its also the middle and the right in the Dark Center. It's not only Hitlery's Amerika, its the Bushs', and Dole's, and McCain's Amerika, too. And its Warren Buffet's, Mark Zuckerberg's, Michal Bloomberg's, Larry Page's, Sergey Brin's, Elon Musk's, Eric Schmidt's, and Rupert Murdoch's Amerika.

We have all noticed that it is the Left that commits crimes, riots, destroys values and lies like an old rug glued to a rotten floor...no matter how they bitch, no matter who writes a book about how they were scared of russia or hiltery and wanted to replace her with another bad candidate.
This is your 47%....That is Hiltery's America...

You don't usually see this stuff of the right...but they have their problems too.

Another good one.
I don't think 50% are enamored with government, we prefer to ignore it and move on with our lives, we don't like politicians and think of them as a joke.
Somewhere along the line we've become hardened by the lack of being able to do anything about it...we pay attention only at voting times and complain the rest of the time.

Now...the 47%?...different story and different idiotology that loves and believes the establishment which is made up of those strange creatures some of us viewed in the 60's and turned out even worse than what they replaced.

Even though we all have been denied true history, it's to much work to ferret out and the 47% depends upon the corrupt...they are the same and have been willingly transformed into an image the rest of us would never reflect.

I'm not sure if hiltery is an image or it's reflection but I know that she and her ilk are what nightmares are made of. Even though the 50% perhaps have not been the ever watchful Americans we should have been, I wouldn't say, by any stretch of one' imagination, "hiltery is America" or the product of America...perhaps your observation really points out that America has left us to our own bidding and is waiting somewhere for us to return, heads hung low and sorrowful.

What denial ,oh that is a river in Egypt.
I used to think poor character traits ,bad judgement and dishonesty coupled with criminal activity were ingredients for a failed political career. Huh