{"id":4177,"date":"2016-11-07T17:26:13","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T01:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vinsuprynowicz.com\/?p=4177"},"modified":"2016-11-08T08:35:51","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T16:35:51","slug":"the-arrogant-elite-face-their-perfect-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vinsuprynowicz.com\/?p=4177","title":{"rendered":"The arrogant elite face their \u2018perfect storm\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A version of the following column appears in the Nov. 10 edition of the three-times-a-month magazine \u201cFirearms News\u201d (previously \u201cShotgun News\u201d) — circulation 89,900 — arriving in mailboxes and on newsstands nationwide, today, Nov. 7, 2016.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Many are saying this is the strangest presidential election in living memory. They may be right, given that no one can now remember the campaigns of 1824 and 1828, when the silk-stocking elite reacted with similar horror at the ascent of that original favorite of the unwashed yokels, the \u201cilliterate baboon\u201d (and champion of the Battle of New Orleans), Andrew Jackson.<\/p>\n

The real issues at the time were tariffs and the monopoly Bank of the United States. But the campaigns were instead waged in the anti-Jackson media by dredging up scandals concerning when Jackson\u2019s wife Rachel actually divorced her first husband, while painting Old Hickory as a tyrant whose election would spell the death of the republic. (Sound familiar?)<\/p>\n

It\u2019s important to realize that today\u2019s mainstream media have purposely sought to MAKE this a campaign about personalities rather than issues.<\/p>\n

No longer even bothering to seriously disguise their role as agents and proxies for the Hillary Democrats, they\u2019ve been working hard since last spring precisely to make this a referendum on the \u201cloose cannon\u201d Donald Trump, taking a page right out of the Saul Alinsky playbook as they \u201cpersonalize and demonize\u201d the challenge to their power, just as they attacked and ridiculed Sarah Palin, a self-made political reformer who you\u2019d THINK they would have championed as an attractive and successful all-America woman, but who instead got trashed as a hayseed from a backwoods state who hadn\u2019t even gone to Vassar or Yale, like you\u2019re supposed to.<\/p>\n

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They don\u2019t want voters to focus on the pay-to-play operation which the Secretary of State\u2019s office became under Hillary Clinton — the massive FOIA e-mail dump by Judicial Watch showing how time and again Hillary\u2019s top aide, Huma Abedin, would tell those who sought a meeting or a favor how hard it would be for them to see the Secretary — until they somehow got the message and made a million-dollar donation to the \u201cClinton Foundation,\u201d or rustled up a $750,000 \u201cspeaking fee\u201d for husband Bill, at which point they\u2019d get their meeting, their favor, lickety-split. <\/p>\n

They certainly don\u2019t want voters to focus on Hillary\u2019s health, as they peddle without further investigation one medical cover story after another (\u201callergies,\u201d \u201cpneumonia\u201d) — ridiculing, even firing anyone who attempts to probe further — for a woman described by her own top aide as \u201coften confused\u201d after her 2012 fall, concussion, and blood clot on the brain.<\/p>\n

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Mrs. Clinton now travels with a nurse at one elbow and a huge \u201chealth aide\u201d at the other -\u2013 available to rub her back, whisper instructions in her ear, even pick her up and toss her bodily into a waiting van if she shows signs of \u201cfreezing up,\u201d a symptom which according to more than one medical doctor resembles the behavior of someone being treated for an advanced neurological disease. (Search for the videos of Dr. Ted Noel, starting here: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vzKIM1SR_Po<\/a> .)<\/p>\n

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TREACHERY<\/strong><\/p>\n

This bi-coastal media elite certainly doesn\u2019t want voters to focus on the way the Obama administration — including Secretary of State Clinton — has sold this nation down the river to the Islamic terrorists and the subversive \u201crefugee settlement jihad\u201d by purging all references to \u201cIslam,\u201d \u201cjihad,\u201d or even \u201cthe enemy\u201d from our federal law enforcement policy and procedure manuals, refusing to allow our agents to track the terror-funding groups, purging vast swatches of relevant data from their databases, ordering agents not to bring cases against terror funders and promoters on a \u201claw-enforcement basis\u201d (what?) \u2013 even putting the Muslim Brotherhood in charge of the FBI\u2019s counter-terrorism training. (See the book \u201cSee Something, Say Nothing,\u201d by former top anti-terror agent Phil Haney, or simply search the internet for any Haney video. For a short one, start here: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CyiiWxWqHU0<\/a> .)<\/p>\n

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Nor do the members of this Ivy League media elite want the public talking or thinking about the way Hillary Clinton abandoned Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans to die in Bengazi rather than approving a ready-to-go rescue mission that might draw attention to what they were really doing there — arranging the shipment of tons of surplus Libyan arms to the Muslim \u201cISIS\u201d rebels in Syria.<\/p>\n

(Even Pulitzer-Prize-winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh has confirmed this Obama\/Clinton illegal arms dealing; see: http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/04\/real-benghazi-story.html<\/a> ; or http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/obama-admin-admits-to-covertly-sending-heavy-weapons-to-syrian-rebels-2012-12<\/a> , or http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/438605\/hillary-clinton-wikileaks-benghazi-scandal-arm-syrian-rebels-al-qaeda-isis-libya-turkey<\/a> .)<\/p>\n

In fact, they seem curiously reluctant to focus on ANY real issues.<\/p>\n

On gun control — the issue on which Bill Clinton acknowledged the Democrats lost control of Congress in 1994 by enacting their goofy ban on certain scary-looking guns and their normal-sized magazines — Hillary Clinton has said repeatedly the \u201cAustralian solution\u201d is \u201cworth a try.\u201d That is, seizing every semi-automatic long gun in the country (yes, they called it a \u201cbuy-back\u201d — do you think gun owners got to set the price for their collectibles? Did you know the penalty for refusing to \u201caccept their offer\u201d was years in prison?) . . .crushing and melting 600,000 of them. (They\u2019ve since gone after many handguns, as well.)<\/p>\n

(See https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DpY0rItDqzM<\/a> .)<\/p>\n

Of course, predictably, the \u201cAustralian solution\u201d hasn\u2019t worked, even in Australia. The Adelaide Advertiser conceded a few years ago: \u201cMotorcycle gang members and convicted criminals barred from buying guns in South Australia have no difficulty obtaining illegal firearms -\u2014 including fully automatic weapons.\u201d ( http:\/\/www.adelaidenow.com.au\/news\/south-australia\/internal-rivalry-among-comancheros-led-to-gunfight-at-paesano-restaurant-police\/story-e6frea83-1226226914996<\/a> .)<\/p>\n

More recently, Australia\u2019s New Daily gained access to \u201cpreviously unpublished data for firearms offences\u201d and reported a surge in crime \u201cincluding a massive 83 per cent increase in firearms offences in NSW between 2005\/06 and 2014\/15, and an even bigger jump in Victoria over the same period\u201d . . . after the big gun confiscation! ( http:\/\/thenewdaily.com.au\/news\/national\/2015\/11\/10\/australias-secret-gun-problem-exposed\/<\/a> .)<\/p>\n

\u201cAustralians may be more at risk from gun crime than ever before with the country\u2019s underground market for firearms ballooning in the past decade,\u201d the report added. \u201cThe national ban on semi-automatic weapons following the Port Arthur massacre had spawned criminal demand for handguns.\u201d<\/p>\n

In contrast, at Donald Trump\u2019s official web site we\u2019re told: \u201cThe Second Amendment to our Constitution is clear. The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed upon. Period. . . . The Constitution doesn\u2019t create that right — it ensures that the government can\u2019t take it away. . . .<\/p>\n

\u201cHere\u2019s another important way to fight crime,\u201d The Donald continues: \u201cempower law-abiding gun owners to defend themselves. Law enforcement is great . . . but they can\u2019t be everywhere all of the time. Our personal protection is ultimately up to us. That\u2019s why I\u2019m a gun owner. . . .\u201d<\/p>\n

Gun and magazine bans? \u201cA total failure,\u201d says Mr. Trump. \u201cOpponents of gun rights try to come up with scary sounding phrases like \u2018assault weapons\u2019, \u2018military-style weapons\u2019 and \u2018high capacity magazines\u2019 to confuse people. What they\u2019re really talking about are popular semi-automatic rifles and standard magazines that are owned by tens of millions of Americans. Law-abiding people should be allowed to own the firearm of their choice. . . .\u201d<\/p>\n

The right to carry? \u201cThe right of self-defense doesn\u2019t stop at the end of your driveway,\u201d Mr. Trump continues. \u201cThat\u2019s why I have a concealed carry permit and why tens of millions of Americans do too. That permit should be valid in all 50 states. A driver\u2019s license works in every state, so it\u2019s common sense that a concealed carry permit should work in every state. . . .\u201d<\/p>\n

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Normally, I\u2019d add here that the Libertarian ticket offers a second alternative for gun owners. Not this year. The current LP vice presidential candidate is former Massachusetts Republican Gov. Bill Weld, the RINO in sheep’s clothing who in 1993 signed into law a package of unconstitutional gun control measures which he\u2019d previously told voters he\u2019d oppose — precisely the kind of ban on normal-sized magazines and \u201cscary-looking\u201d semi-automatics that candidate Trump refers to. Both Weld and running mate Gary Johnson (and, coincidentally, loyal Harry Reid foot-soldier Catherine Cortez Masto, running for U.S. Senate here in Nevada) all agree \u201cYou shouldn\u2019t have anybody who is on the terrorist watch list buy any gun at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Problem is, a \u201cterrorist watch list\u201d is not a list of people who\u2019ve been notified of the charges against them and provided a due-process opportunity to confront their accusers. The government can put any American they want on such a \u201cwatch list.\u201d They don\u2019t even notify those being \u201clisted.\u201d<\/p>\n

ECONOMY, IMMIGRATION<\/strong><\/p>\n

Does Mrs. Clinton want to debate the economy? Back in the \u201860s and \u201870s, our current political-media elite was instructed by their leftist professors that every \u201cprogressive\u201d shares the wish to tear down the \u201cgreedy capitalist\u201d culture which over 300 years made America the freest and most prosperous nation on earth, replacing it with \u201cmulticulturalism.\u201d<\/p>\n

For 30 years, this \u201cpolitics of jealousy\u201d has been driving American jobs overseas with high corporate tax rates and expensive \u201cemployer mandates,\u201d until Ford just announced it will now build all its smaller cars in Mexico.<\/p>\n

Yes, some of us worry about Donald Trump\u2019s tendency to grab first for protective tariffs. After all, the Smoot-Hawley tariffs played a major role in extending the world-wide Depression of the 1930s.<\/p>\n

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But shouldn\u2019t such issues be the topic of this election, rather than whether Donald Trump is a \u201cracist\u201d (because he wants the immigration laws enforced equally for everyone) or an \u201cIslamophobe\u201d (because he wants to screen and track would-be Islamic terrorists seeking to enter this country), or \u201cthe next Hitler\u201d (when the most Hitlerian action I\u2019ve seen in America in my lifetime was the FBI holding the fire engines a mile away while they burned the women and children to death in that church near Waco, having set the place afire with their highly flammable \u201cferret rounds\u201d later found in the wreckage. Who occupied the White House at the time — and saw to it those G-men got praise and promotions? Oh dear. The Clintons.)<\/p>\n

It may also be worth noting that Hitler\u2019s handiwork was enormously facilitated by the effective disarmament of the German people. Why then would a \u201cnext Hitler\u201d want to encourage Americans to own and carry firearms in order to resist tyranny, as Trump does? Why, in contrast, would Hillary Clinton — if she\u2019s such a proponent of freedom — want our most effective personal weapons seized and destroyed, with prison terms for anyone who refuses to “turn them in,” just like in Australia?<\/p>\n

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More and more working-class Americans now scrape by on a couple of part-time jobs with few benefits. This economic condition has been created by those (of both parties) who\u2019ve been in charge in Washington for the past 30 years — piling on bizarre, economically crippling regulations. Now you can even be penalized if your operation emits carbon dioxide — a harmless gas necessary to life on earth!<\/p>\n

Meantime, even though the mainstream media may turn their eyes away, everyday Americans have started to notice the ongoing campaign to cripple the economies of rural states by driving ranchers, miners, lumbermen, even small farmers off the land, all under the absurd pretense of \u201cprotecting\u201d some obscure bird, reptile, minnow or maggot.<\/p>\n

But something went wrong, didn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

\u2018DISCONNECTED FROM THE REALITIES OF THE PRIVATE ECONOMY\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Writing many weeks before the election, I can\u2019t predict where this campaign will stand in early November. For one thing, we can\u2019t know whether Hillary Clinton will be still standing, literally.<\/p>\n

But one thing is obvious: The media failed in their effort to have Donald Trump down for the count, apologizing for his every supposed \u201cgaffe\u201d and \u201cmisstep,\u201d by Labor Day. Why?<\/p>\n

The Internet. More than half the populace can now turn to alternative news sources. They can see for themselves the chaos that an \u201copen borders\u201d policy has created in Europe, where Mideast \u201crefugees\u201d who believe it\u2019s OK to rape any woman not wrapped head to toe in Muslim-style garments show no inclination to assimilate, where Scandinavian police have stopped even attempting to protect their citizens in the \u201cno-go\u201d Muslim enclaves, and civil wars loom. <\/p>\n

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Just because the \u201cold media\u201d threaten to fire anyone who wants to talk about Hillary\u2019s health doesn\u2019t mean millions of Americans didn\u2019t go online and watch her fall down before they could drag her into her escape van at Ground Zero on Sept. 11.<\/p>\n

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And finally, the selective personal attacks against Trump handed him an unintended autumn gift: In September, as voters actually started to tune in and listen to the candidates, Donald Trump benefited from low expectations. All he had to do was address bedrock issues \u2013 economics, the suffering of families who\u2019ve lost relatives to Islamic terror \u2013 in a calm, coherent way. Amazed voters started turning to each other and saying, \u201cWow. Common sense. But where\u2019s that pathological lunatic they told us about?\u201d<\/p>\n

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The grip of the collectivist elite on our urban centers means a modern Democrat could probably count on the 115 electoral votes of New York, California, Illinois and Massachusetts — almost half the 270 required — even if she actually did drop dead. So Republicans face an uphill road. <\/p>\n

I won\u2019t predict an outcome. But as Daniel Henninger of the financial blog Zero Hedge wrote in the Sept. 15 Wall Street Journal (under the \u201chouse\u201d pseudonym Tyler Durden): \u201cHillary Clinton\u2019s comment that half of Donald Trump\u2019s supporters are \u2018racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic\u2019 . . . puts back in play what will be seen as one of the 2016 campaign\u2019s defining forces: the revolt of the politically incorrect.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey may not live at the level of Victor Hugo\u2019s \u2018Les Miserables,\u2019 but it was only a matter of time before \u2018les deplorables\u2019 — our own writhing mass of unheard Americans — rebelled against the intellectual elites\u2019 \u2018ancien regime\u2019 of political correctness,\u201d Mr. Henninger continues.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the eight years available to Barack Obama to do something about what rankles the lower-middle class — white, black or brown — the non-employed and underemployed grew. A lot of them will vote for Donald Trump because they want a radical mid-course correction. . . .<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not the Democratic Party of Bill Clinton. The progressive Democrats, a wholly public-sector party, have disconnected from the realities of the private economy, which exists as a mysterious revenue-producing abstraction. . . .<\/p>\n

\u201cDonald Trump\u2019s appeal, in part, is that he cracks back at progressive cultural condescension in utterly crude terms. . . . They\u2019re fed up with the relentless, moral superciliousness of Hillary, the Obamas, progressive pundits and 19-year-old campus activists,\u201d Mr. Henninger concludes.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf the Democrats lose behind Hillary Clinton, it will be in part because America\u2019s \u2018les deplorables\u2019 decided enough of this is enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

And that would be a watershed. Or maybe even — following the vote of Britons to pull out of the German-run, Sharia-infiltrated Common Market — the beginnings of a tidal wave.<\/p>\n

Vin Suprynowicz was for 20 years an award-winning libertarian columnist and editorial writer at the daily Las Vegas Review-Journal, back when it had a reputation for independence and a circulation of 180,000 (212,000 on Sundays.) He blogs at www.vinsuprynowicz.com.<\/em><\/p>\n

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