By Patrick J. Buchanan
“Remember, it’s a rigged system. It’s a rigged election,”
said Donald Trump in New Hampshire on Saturday.
The stunned recoil in this city suggests this bunker
buster went right down the chimney. As the French put it, “Il n’y a que la
verite qui blesse.” It is only the truth that hurts.
In what sense is the system rigged?
Consider Big Media — the elite columnists and
commentators, the dominant national press, and the national and cable networks,
save FOX. Not in this writer’s lifetime has there been such blanket hatred and
hostility of a presidential candidate of a major party.
“So what?” They reply. “We have a free press!”
But in this election, Big Media have burst out of the
closet as an adjunct of the regime and the attack arm of the Clinton campaign,
aiming to bring Trump down.
Half a century ago, Theodore White wrote of the power and
bias of the “adversary press” that sought to bring down Richard Nixon.
“The power of the press in America,” wrote Teddy, “is a
primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping
power is unrestrained by any law. It determines what people will talk about and
think about — an authority that in other nations is reserved for tyrants,
priests, parties and mandarins.”
On ABC’s “This Week,” Newt Gingrich volunteered on Sunday
that, “without the unending one-sided assault of the news media, Trump would be
beating Hillary by 15 points.”
On this one, Newt is right.
With all due respect, as adversaries, Harry Reid and
Nancy Pelosi are not terribly formidable. Big Media is the power that sustains
the forces of globalism against those of Americanism.
Is the system rigged? Ask yourself.
For half a century, the U.S. Supreme Court has
systematically de-Christianized and paganized American society and declared
abortion and homosexual marriage constitutional rights.
Where did these unelected jurists get the right to impose
their views and values upon us, and remake America in their own secularist
image? Was that really the Court’s role in the Constitution?
How did we wind up with an all-powerful judicial tyranny
in a nation the Founding Fathers created as a democratic republic?
There are more than 11 million illegal immigrants here,
with millions more coming. Yet the government consistently refuses to enforce
the immigration laws of the United States.
Why should those Americans whose ancestors created,
fought, bled and died to preserve America not believe they and their children
are being dispossessed of a country that was their patrimony — and without
their consent?
When did the country vote to convert the America we grew
up in into the Third World country our descendants will inherit in 2042?
In the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a Congressional majority
voted to end discrimination against black folks.
When did we vote to institute pervasive discrimination
against white folks, especially white males, with affirmative action, quotas
and racial set-asides? Even in blue states like California, affirmative action
is routinely rejected in statewide ballots.
Yet it remains regime policy, embedded in the
bureaucracy.
In 2015, in the Democratic primaries, the big
enthusiastic crowds were all for 75-year-old Socialist senator Bernie Sanders.
We now know, thanks to leaked emails, that not only the
super delegates and the Obama White House but a collaborationist press and the
DNC were colluding to deny Sanders any chance at the nomination.
The fix was in. Ask Sanders if he thinks the system is
rigged.
If there is an issue upon which Americans agree, it is
that they want secure borders and an end to trade policies that have shipped
abroad the jobs, and arrested the wages, of working Americans.
Yet in a private speech that netted her $225,000 from
Brazilian bankers, Hillary Clinton confided that she dreams of a “common
market, with open trade and open borders” from Nome, Alaska, to Patagonia.
That would mean the end of the USA as a unique, sovereign
and independent nation. But the American press, whose survival depends upon the
big ad dollars of transnational corporations, is more interested in old tapes
of the Donald on The Howard Stern Show.
As present, it appears that in 2017, we may get a
government headed by Hillary Clinton, and an opposition headed by Paul Ryan and
Mitch McConnell.
Is that what the people were hoping for, working for,
voting for in the primaries of 2016? Or is this what they were voting against?
Big money and the media power of the establishment elites
and the transnationals may well prevail.
And if they do, Middle America — those who cling to their
bibles, bigotries and guns in Barack Obama’s depiction, those “deplorables” who
are “racist, sexist, xenophobic, homophobic,” who are “not America” and are
“irredeemable” in Hillary Clinton’s depiction — will have to accept the new
regime.
But that does not mean they must love it, like it or
respect it.
Because, in the last analysis, yes, Virginia, the system
is rigged.
