Writing at the Chicago Tribune, John Kass isn’t the first to notice how issue-less the presidential campaign is and he probably won’t be the last. He remarks:
“My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders, sometime in the future with energy that’s as green and sustainable as we can get it, powering growth and opportunity for every person in the hemisphere,” Clinton reportedly said to investors in a paid speech she gave to Brazilian Banco Itau in 2013.
Here’s the thing about borders. If you don’t have borders, you don’t have a country. Americans are beginning to understand this. Europeans understand it now, quite clearly.
Clinton’s dream also includes a Western Hemispheric common market, like the European common market that is dissolving in chaos, fear and debt.
If that is indeed her dream, then she dreams the internationalist dream that would end America. But Americans aren’t talking about this, perhaps because there is no video involving sex and Hollywood and Trump.
I would love to hear Clinton’s explanation. Perhaps she could put it in some proper context.
Or perhaps she was merely telling the Brazilians something they wanted to hear, because they were paying her a good chunk of cash.
It would be interesting to know but we probably never will.
I presume that’s just how the Clinton campaign wants it. The most favorable conditions for Hillary Clinton’s election to the presidency is to keep the voters’ focus firmly on Donald Trump’s low character while wishing out loud that you could turn to the issues.
And it really won’t make a great deal of difference in this election. We’re going to take whatever the winning candidate wants to do and like it.
The Ruling Classes (semi-hereditary, for now) of all the West are united against their own citizens. All of their globalist policies benefit themselves and injure their citizens. We have entered a medieval social and economic structure: one third for the miller, one third for me, and one third for the little boy who lives on the hill.
John Kass brings up the big issue, Borders. Utopian dreamers say we have no need for them, but they erect their own economic borders to keep us out of their neighborhoods. Trump is clear, the world cannot all come here, indeed it is a horrible thing to advertise that they can.
Tens of thousands of human beings are drowning every week in the Mediterranean every week believing that they can, most are Nigerians, overpopulated because of well intended childhood vaccines. They must, in my valued opinion, make it work where they were born. It is their duty to their children. Western advertisement of wealth and plenty are more than a disservice, they are evil.
SIgh. Evaluate her policies. Is she advocating for us to eliminate borders? No. Is it reasonable to hope, to dream that at some time in the future we can all get along well enough that we don’t need borders? As dreams go, doesn’t seem like such a bad one. Like world peace, it aint happening soon, but to a bad goal.
Steve