The Financial Page, "Economic Populism at the
Primaries," The New Yorker, February 22, 2016
"A week ago Sunday,
one of the two eventual winners of the New Hampshire primaries assailed the
power of corporate lobbyists of the U.S. government, labeling them
"blood-suckers." He attacked defense contractors for forcing the
government to buy missiles it didn't need. He blasted oil companies and
insurers. And he vowed to use the bargaining power of the U.S. government to
drive down drug prices."
Is it any wonder the power brokers in Washington,
their puppets in government and parasites in associated businesses are quaking
in their boots? And so they have begun what in the industry is called Negative
Advertising. Check out this website:
http://www.webcide.com/#!negative-public-relations-/cp1 where this agency
proudly proclaims:
"Negative public relations, also called dark public
relations, is a process of destroying the target's reputation or corporate
identity. The objective in Negative Public Relations is to discredit
someone else, who may pose a threat to the client's business or be a political
rival. Common techniques include using dirty secrets from the target, producing
misleading facts to fool a competitor."
The power of these puppet masters can nowhere be
more obvious than with the past few weeks of Marco Rubio's rhetoric. Their
command was to take Trump down with insults. The result made Rubio look like a
little boy whose mother told him it was okay to use potty words. He reveled in
the opportunity but it made him look smaller. It also looked like he had no
core principles since he was doing just what he condemned in his competitor.
I am afraid I must agree with Jeff Sessions:
“This election is our last chance to save U.S.
sovereignty and to end the domination of the political establishment over the
interests of working Americans. Trump alone has rejected the donor class,
defending America’s jobs and wages from open borders, uncontrolled immigration
and the massive Trans-Pacific Partnership that will cede U.S. authority to foreign
powers. Trump’s trade and immigration plans will revitalize our shrinking
middle class, keeping jobs and wealth and income inside the United States of
America. Trump understands that a nation must always place the interests of its
own people first.”
Hopefully,
the public will see through these intimidation tactics and will not allow the elitist
power brokers, Hawks who haven’t seen a war they didn’t want our young men and women to fight or a
trade deal for which they weren’t ready to sell out the American people, to pervert the democratic process.
So far people seem to be wise to their tactics. Hopefully, they will continue to do so as the elitist power brokers are stepping up their anti-Trump rhetoric.
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