Sorry, “Feel the Bern” Fans: President Sanders Won’t Change Anything
by Charles Hugh Smith
WashingtonsBlog.com
October 22, 2015
The appeal of Bernie Sanders is clear even to those who don’t “feel the Bern”: maybe, just maybe something will actually change in Washington. Fans of The Donald have the same hope.
A vote for Hillary is a vote for the status quo–for fake-sincerity speeches fine-tuned by the latest polls, for simulacra reforms that leave Wall Street and the rest of the Empire untouched, and for the astonishing hypocrisy of a visionless politico who amassed a vast fortune on the coattails of her aging-Lothario hubby attempting to fan the flames of class warfare.
As tempting as it is to hope that an outsider president such as Bernie or the Donald might change the trajectory of the Empire, this is a vain and futile hope.
This is partly the result of the limited domestic powers of the Imperial President and partly the result of the momentum of the Empire and the pressure that will be brought to bear on anyone, insider or outsider, who attempts to change the course of the ship of state.
Get money out of politics? The president is powerless. Congress passes the laws, and the Supreme Court shreds any attempt to limit political contributions. Any bill that does pass has loopholes big enough for truckloads of cash to breeze through.
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