“The government
doesn’t care about profits, which is why it’s always in the red. It doesn’t
care much about service either, which is why there are long lines at Connecticut’s
Department of Motor Vehicles. It cares only about votes.” – The Cynic at
the Breakfast Table, a work in progress.
On Thursday, Hillary Clinton came to Hartford, not so long
ago the murder capital of New England, to agitate indirectly against Democratic presidential rival Bernie Sanders – AND FIRE ARMS. Mr. Sanders is from
Vermont and does not suffer from hoplophobia, an irrational fear of guns. In
the hinterland of Vermont, guns are used to shoot game; in one-party
urbanscapes such as Hartford, guns are used by drug dealers, gangbangers and
young school kids to kill rivals and innocent by-standers. Anti-gun Democratic politicians
now seek to forestall urban gun crimes by allowing lawyers to sue gun
manufacturers – good for the lawyers, bad for law-abiding gun owners and good
for politicians who hope to convince the lower orders that their measures will
prevent mothers in cities from weeping over their murdered children.
Mrs. Clinton was well armed – not personally, of course.
Wherever the Clinton gang goes – mommy, daddy and daughter – they are
surrounded by a protective bubble of
armed body-guards, all of whom are prepared to defend the leading Democratic presidential candidate and her loved ones against thugs bent on mayhem who generally
obtain their weapons illegally, as did Adam Lanza when he murdered 26 children
and school staff at Sandy Hook Elementary School more than four years ago. Mr. Lanza shot his mother, the legal purchaser of the
weapons he used to mow down school children and school staff, because, among
other reasons, she likely never would have sanctioned Mr. Lanza’s murderous
assault.
Mrs. Clinton has not stressed during her primary campaign the
real differences between herself and Mr. Sanders, a socialist U.S. Senator from
Vermont, perhaps because she does not wish to alienate the affections of Mr.
Sanders’ supporters, who are legion. In fact, the Democratic Presidential
primary campaign has been placid and non-confrontational.
For instance, Mr. Sanders is a Socialist and Mrs. Clinton is
not. Had Mrs. Clinton been around during the 32nd quadrennial presidential
election in 1912 -- when Socialist candidate for president Eugene Debs was
running against conservative Republican Party incumbent Howard Taft,
Progressive Party candidate Theodore Roosevelt and Democratic Party candidate
Woodrow Wilson – Mrs. Clinton would not have voted for Mr. Debs, later
imprisoned at the behest of President Wilson. Mr. Debs was charged with
sedition after he had made a speech in Canton, Ohio urging resistance to
the military draft of World War I. Not only would Mr. Sanders have voted
for Mr. Debs in the 2012 campaign, the true crucible of American progressivism, he likely would
have protested Mr. Deb’s arrest, gladly sharing a side-cell with a fellow socialist presidential candidate.
Thus far, Mrs. Clinton has attempted to piggy-back on Mr. Sanders’ frequent
assaults on large banks and Wall Street -- which, by the way, he intends as president to
abolish.
Connecticut’s “Gold Coast” in Fairfield has been a campaign
piggy bank for both Democrats and Republicans on the hunt for campaign funds.
Mr. Sanders’ campaign is financed by widows' mites and students whose quite
considerable college loans will be paid for in a Sanders presidential administration
by any redundantly rich millionaires who have escaped Mr. Sanders’ Gulag. Mrs.
Clinton’s campaign, on the other hand, has been financed by deep pocket
millionaires who spend their off hours, when they are not drinking the blood of
the proletariat, grinding the faces of the poor, a message iterated countless times by Mr.
Sanders in the course of his campaign. It turns out there are more mites than
millionaires. Mr. Sanders is now leading Mrs. Clinton in the race for campaign
cash -- Sanders $46 million, Clinton $23 million.
If Mrs. Clinton has thrown few sharp elbows against Mr.
Sanders, the courtesy has been reciprocated. Mr. Sanders has avoided penetrating
comment on Mrs. Clinton’s several Achilles heels. On the eve of a major FBI
investigation into Mrs. Clinton’s no longer “private” e-mail server, Mr.
Sanders washed his hands of the controversy. He was sick and tired, he said
during a primary lovefest, of hearing about Mrs. Clinton’s e-mails, some of
which concerned the murder of an American ambassador and others by – dare we
mention the word – Islamic terrorists in Benghazi, Libya.
Libya is Mrs. Clinton’s ill-advised Iraq war. The Libyan authoritarian ruler Mrs. Clinton
overthrew was hiding no Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs) under his
fashionable headgear. Indeed, Colonel Gaddafi was making cooing sounds towards
Washington when Secretary of State Clinton and President Barack Obama decided
to conquer him: They came, they saw, he died.
The result of the Clinton/Obama intervention in Libya was
chaos, the same chaos that eventually played out in Iraq after Mr. Obama
decided to quit the country following a diplomatic tiff with an irascible Iraqi
President, since replaced. The Obama/Clinton team sent agents into Israel to destabilize
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s re-election campaign. Even a “secular
Jew” – whatever that is – might have winced at such interference; but Mr.
Sanders has said nothing to any of these points. In Egyptian elections, the
Obama/Clinton administration supported the Islamic Brotherhood, a virulent
anti-Israeli supporter of terrorism. It concluded with Iran, the new Islamic
terrorist hegemon in the Middle East, an unsigned “treaty” that provided the
chief sponsor of terrorist gangs in the Middle East with billions of dollars previously
sequestered by a successful embargo – now suspended. None of these notes have
been sounded by Mr. Sanders, a Eugene Debs pacifist, during his primary
campaign.
The sound of silence in the Democratic primary campaign is
crowding out a serious discussion of momentous issues. Mr. Debs, the socialist,
at least confronted the quisling Democrats of his day with an iron fist. Even
the prison bars of his cell shrank at the vehemence of his rage. This is what
Mr. Debs said at his sentencing hearing:
“Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”
Mr. Sanders seems content to bark at bankers and Wall Street
financiers – which is why Mrs. Clinton, despite her frailties, will snatch the Democratic
nomination from him.
Here in Connecticut, Mrs. Clinton has been embraced by the
state’s all-Democratic U.S. Congressional delegation, prominent among them U.S.
Senators Dick Blumenthal and Chris Murphy, both lawyers and both suffering from
an excess of media adulation. They too, along with Mrs. Clinton, favor trimming
the Second Amendment by allowing lawyers to sue gun manufacturers whenever a
fourteen-year old fatherless child mows down another fourteen-year-old
fatherless child in Hartford, Connecticut’s capital city. If you can’t prevent
such shoot-outs in our urban Tombstones, you can at least enrich the lawyers.
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