It Doesn't Really Matter which Establishment Candidate Wins, We Lose

There is a lot of talk about who is going to win the primaries on the Republican side to run against Hillary.

First, it will be an establishment candidate for the Republicans.  It will not be Trump, Carson or Fiorina.  The establishment will at some point crush these three outsiders and elect one of their own, Rubio or Bush most likely.  It really doesn't matter what you want or what we want.   There are billions of dollars that can be mobilized when it is time that will unite behind one of their own and they will simply roll over the outsiders.  

Of course, there are the friendly outsiders, like Bernie on the democratic side and Rand Paul on the Republican side.  Both are outsiders but are not considered serious threats.  Bernie has already pledged to support Hillary if he loses giving up any negotiating power he might have in moving the democrat party toward a more progressive agenda. He is simply warming up the electorate mare for the Hilliary stallion. 

Rand Paul, the only real fiscal conservative that believes you should pay for what you spend does not have enough Americans behind him who are committed to sound fiscal policy.  On both sides of the aisle, we want to spend more than we can afford and we have swallowed the military-industrial-complex lie that spending more money for military than the next 10 countries combined for defense is not enough to keep us strong.  Obviously because we are too stupid to spend the money well or efficiently?  And yes, the majority of democrats believe this lie too.  

The New President

The new President, whoever he or she is, will be part of the corporate oligarchy that controls this country.  No one has ever been more a part of the corporate machine than Hillary and the Clintons.  She has shackles around every inch of her body that is anchored in corporate America.  And, you have to believe that Rubio who struggles with his personal finances will never have to worry again when he is adopted by the establishment.  

Under this new President a few things can be counted on to happen including:

• The Military Industrial Complex will expand,
• Corporate Taxes will decline (a good thing),
• Obamacare will morph into something else for the Healthcare Insurance Industry
• The minimum wage will be increased moderately (a token contribution to the working people).
• Illegal Immigrants will be punished somehow (fines perhaps) and be granted a path to citizenship.
• We will continue to fight profitable wars in the Middle East.
• Unions will continue to lose power
• Banks too big to fail will get bigger and hold us hostage.
• The Present will gain power, the Congress will lose power.
• The progressive social agenda will move forward
• Irresponsible spending by the Feds of more than we have will continue, burying our kids in debt.
• Literacy rates in America will decline.
• The labor participation rate will drop below 60% and continue to decline.
• Automation will accelerate reducing the number of jobs for all, 
• Homelessness will increase.
• Poverty rates will increase
• Dropout rates in high school will increase
• The number of mentally ill in jail will increase.
• The number of illegal immigrants will decline (as joblessness in America increases)
• Our traditional infrastructure will not get rebuilt
• Our digital infrastructure will not expand to the poor.

What will not happen:

• A great wall across the Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California border to Mexico will not be built at the cost of billions of dollars to build, man and maintain.
• Israel and the U.S. will not let the Palestinians have their own country or self-determination
• We will not lower the interest rates on the profitable loans to indebted college students, future or past.
• We will not equally fund education for poor black or hispanic kids.
• We will not provide affordable college education to our children.
• We will provide Universal Health care for our people like most modern countries 
• We will not end for-profit prisons in America.
• We will not provide help to drug addicts
• We will not end the war on drugs
• We will not start the war on poverty
• We will not address the challenge of the homeless or the mentally ill people in this country.

How do I know all these things for a fact?   It is elementary, Watson.  What is best for corporate America?  What is good for the Oligarchy?  What increases corporate profits?  Answer that question on each issue and that is how it will go whether a Republican or Democrat is in Presidency.  The difference that occur are really very minor, nothing will change on the major issues, see above.

There is no universal vision for our future.  There are very few that can image how our society has to evolve to prosper in a world where birth rates our declining, automation is exploding, labor is no longer valuable, and values are essential for future prosperity.  In short, we are screwed.