The only way to govern successfully is to actually solve the
underlying systemic problems, but doing that requires overthrowing a
corrupt, self-serving elite.
Regardless of who wins the presidency, a much larger question looms: will the U.S. be ungovernable 2017-2020? There are multiple sources of the question.
One is of course the remarkable unpopularity of the two candidates for the presidency. For
all the reasons that are tiresomely familiar, whomever wins the
presidency will remain deeply unpopular with roughly 40% of the adult
populace.
Though we can't say "never," let's say it's "extremely unlikely" that
fans of Hillary Clinton will cotton to Donald Trump, or vice versa: both
candidates have been public figures for decades, and it is highly
unlikely that the usual "I will serve all the people" speech given by
the new president will change many minds.
It's not too difficult to foresee not just gridlock, but angry gridlock. Neither
candidate can count on even the slightest shreds of goodwill from the
other party, and with bi-partisanship already dead on arrival, precisely
how much governance can any deeply reviled president offer the nation?
Whether pundits like it or not, one issue that will not go away after
the election is the dominance of the nation's financial and political
elite: the top .01%. As many of us in the alternative media, and to a
lesser but still significant degree, in the mainstream media have been
noting, the dominance of the elite class of financiers and politicos has
increased in the 21st century.
I have described this in a number of ways: the state-cartel model,
neofeudalism (with the bottom 95% being either debt-serfs or dependents
on state bread and circuses), or the neocolonialial-financialization model: The E.U., Neofeudalism and the Neocolonial-Financialization Model (May 24, 2012).
"The finance industry has effectively captured our government--a
state of affairs that more typically describes emerging markets, and is
at the center of many emerging-market crises. If the IMF’s staff could
speak freely about the U.S., it would tell us what it tells all
countries in this situation: recovery will fail unless we break the
financial oligarchy that is blocking essential reform. And if we are to
prevent a true depression, we’re running out of time."
Regardless of who they vote for, an increasing number of Americans are coming to understand that their
oppressors are not foreign "terrorists" but homegrown elites who have
become wealthier and thus more powerful in the past seven years of
"prosperity."
As I have shown many times, the top 5% of households have done very very
well in the past few decades, and the bottom 95% have at best clung on
and at worst seen the purchasing power of their earnings plummet.
You can't fix this without overthrowing the status quo. Policy
tweaks such as "more job training," more social benefits, tax cuts for
the middle class--none of those simulacra reforms will change the
dynamic or the power structure of the U.S.
And since nobody in power is going to change the status quo that so
richly benefits them, the resentment of the power elites will only grow
in the next four years. The other unspoken issue is that the bottom
95% are starting to see through the Ministry of Propaganda's unrelenting
spew of fake factoids and "happy talk good news":
All the "red button" issues boil down to this: the top .01% make
all the important decisions to serve their own interests; the top 5% of
technocrats and professionals who have done very well for themselves in
the past seven years will support the elites, and the bottom 95% are
effectively powerless-- not just politically, but financially.
I would argue that Simon Johnson's financial coup is 50 years behind
the governance coup in which the Deep State decided the "people" must be
stripped of power lest they mess up "what's best for them," which is of course decided for them by the elitist organs of the Deep State, which I have sketched out here:
You see the dilemma for the elites running the nation: if they
keep exploiting the nation for their own benefit, they risk a social
revolution that threatens their cozy state-cartel arrangement.
But if they return some power to the people--well, the people might
actually renounce the Imperial Project, endless war, saber-rattling, and
elite dominance of the nation.
Regardless of who wins the election, the U.S. will be ungovernable in a period of self-reinforcing crises. All
the flim-flam financial gambits that created the illusion of prosperity
are falling apart, and the Imperial Project is losing its grip on the
narratives and on the ground.
The only way to govern successfully is to actually solve the
underlying systemic problems, but doing that requires overthrowing a
corrupt, self-serving elite, the same elite that will never relinquish its power or its wealth.Source: http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com.au/2016/10/usa-2017-2020-ungovernable-nation.html