BY ANTHONY J. BAZ
OF YORKTOWN NEWS & MAHOPAC NEWS
So the ride that was 2016
has come to an end. It certainly was not the end anyone (but me) expected. I
found it rewarding in a number of ways.
First of all, the Trump
candidacy showed anyone with a brain how corrupt the Washington establishment
had become; how out of touch with America it had become; and its outright
contempt for the average American.
Second, we also learned
just how far the major print and TV media stations are willing to go to shield
the Washington establishment in general and the Democrat Party in particular.
While the media was busy shooting the messenger (WikiLeaks), the rest of
America, excepting readers of The New York Times and Washington Post, or viewers
of CNN or MSNBC, were reading how the Democratic Party rigged their own primary
to secure the nomination for Hillary Clinton. Did they have any real effect on
the votes? It could be argued either way. However, what is inarguable is the
Praetorian Guard, to this day, believes voters should have been ignorant of the
goings-on behind the scenes. They believe their only hope of victory was an
ignorant voter.
Third, what cost Hillary
the election was hubris. Already factored in by the voter was the fact that
Trump was a pig. They knew he viewed women by their looks. Nor was he was a
sexist who judged women by their looks. He was also neither a xenophobe,
homophobe nor racist. Throughout his entire life as a businessman, he has judged
people on their merit and the content of their character. Hell, being in the New
York media market for over 30 years, were any of the accusations thrown at him
by the Democrats true, we would have seen headlines long before
this.
Already factored in by
the voters was that Hillary was not trustworthy. She was a woman of little
accomplishment of her own right. She always needed someone with their thumb on
the scale. She was arrogant, condescending outright phony who would stand for
whatever you would fall for. There was nothing new to learn here. After all,
like Trump, she has been in the news for 30 years.
The difference was, and
it was what decided the election, Trump spent very little time at his rallies
pointing out her faults, though if all you knew was what was reported, you would
think that was all he talked about. No, he spent most of his rallies outlining
his agenda. He already had the people who would never vote for Hillary, so he
spent most of his rallies giving people a reason to vote for him, for it was
those people who would decide this election. He needed those people to flip a
blue state red. This he did. He flipped 200 counties that voted for Obama in
2008 and 2012 and switched their vote for him. If one were to listen to the
media, one would be lead to believe that between 2008 and 2016, these people
became racist.
Hillary, on the other
hand, spent her entire campaign focusing on the voter who would never vote for
Trump. Yet, being politically tone deaf, she did not realize she already had
them and did not need to focus on them. What she failed to do was give people a
reason to vote for her. She never laid out an agenda that was more than more of
the same with a little tweak here and there. She spent an entire campaign
telling people what they already knew, never telling people what they needed to
know.
Her campaign also
believed the media template that this is a divided country. As we come to the
end of the year, let us look at the truth. This country is anything but divided.
Her popular vote victory was entirely based on votes from New York and
California in general, and New York City and Los Angeles County in particular.
If you remove those votes, Trump wins the popular vote by 500,000. This is why
the genius of the Electoral College is paramount. Our founders did not want the
population centers ruling, not governing over the rest of the
country.
Since 2010, when
Obamacare was passed in the dead of night on Christmas Eve, the Democrats, when
one goes all the way down to the office of mayor, have lost 1,100 elective
offices. When one looks at a map of states and counties, you could say we are
actually quite united. It is the Democratic Party, which is bi-coastal with a
couple of pockets in Chicago and Memphis, that is in a distinct
minority.
Their agenda has been
soundly rejected, and not because of any -phobia or -ism. It was rejected
because it tried to rule against the will of the people. What the Democrats
forgot was we elect people to govern, not rule.
The genius of America is
that when people reach their tipping point, they do not take up arms, but get
off their butt and vote. So as this year comes to an end, do not listen to
those mean-spirited talking heads who tell you that this country has become
racist, sexist or vote by habit. This country, as it always has been, is united
in the belief that those who govern the least, govern the best; that people are
more than capable of deciding for themselves how to live their lives; that all
they require is a country that offers equal opportunity, not outcome; The
unencumbered pursuit of happiness, we can or cannot catch up to it ourselves.
Happy new year.
This is what I say. What
say you?
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