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Opinion: Johnson should have won, but Trump is better than Clinton

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Donald Trump delivers a speech at a rally at the Lakefront Airport on Friday, March 4, 2016. Walter Block, economics professor, believes Trump was a better choice for president than Clinton. Photo credit: The Maroon

Walter Block

economics professor

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An economist was asked, How is your wife? Came the reply: compared to what? Let’s compare Donald Trump to Hillary Clinton and then to Gary Johnson.

Why did the American electorate properly support Donald over Hillary?

Exhibit A: World War III.

I bitterly oppose a war between the U.S. and Russia. Such a conflagration can ruin our entire day! Donald can get along with Vladimir Putin; Hillary called him a “Hitler.” She favored a “no fly” zone over Syria. But guess which nation is now dropping bombs from aloft in an attempt to support Bashar Assad? Russia.

Not only did Clinton sabre-rattle against a strong nuclear power, she favors war-mongering all around the globe. She giggled as she said of Libya’s strongman Muamar Khadafy “We came, we saw, he died.” The Republican averred of this episode: “Not on my watch.” Similarly, Hillary was knee-deep in the toppling of Iraq’s dictator Saddam Hussain. Don’t get me wrong: these were not nice people. But, due to the policy reinforced by Hillary, ISIS was created, which is far worse. She now wants to overturn the duly elected government of Syria, a bitter enemy of ISIS. A similar pattern emerges regarding NATO. Donald wants to “rethink” this entire matter; Hillary favors their eastward-creep and war-games right on Russia’s border. How would we like it if Russia massed its military might off the shores of Miami or Seattle? Or in Canada or Mexico? Americans didn’t much appreciate the USSR placing missiles in Cuba. The U.S. has some 1,000 military bases in about 150 countries. Hillary supports this; Donald wants to remove our soldiers from places such as Germany, Japan, Korea and elsewhere.

Donald was the peace candidate. He was the skunk at the neo-con garden-party; Hillary was their pin-up girl. Consider these statements by our founding fathers. George Washington: “The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.” Thomas Jefferson: “Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none”. John Quincy Adams: “America . . . goes not abroad seeking monsters to destroy.”

Now contrast them with these statements by Trump and/or his advisors: “I would say that NATO as a political alliance does need to be relooked at in terms of everything – resourcing, capabilities.” “We have to look at the cost of resourcing the US military around the world.” “The United States should not have to intervene in every single problem around the world.” “Putin will be a reliable partner for certain things for the United States, yes. Absolutely. We need to have a relationship from the top to the bottom, same with China.” Regarding America’s decades-long push for exporting democracy: “Will that come to an end if Trump becomes president?” “Yes, because it’s wrong.”

Why didn’t the leftist anti-war movement support Donald? Could it be because they only oppose Republican, not Democratic, imperialism?

Exhibit B: The Supreme Court

Hillary would have appointed judges who favored welfare, affirmative action and (the abomination of partial birth) abortion “rights,” all of which disproportionately hurt black people; who would force bakers, photographers and florists to provide for gay weddings (would they compel a Jew or a black to serve at KKK or Nazi weddings?); who would trash the First Amendment in favor of PC, and also the Second, even though her own bodyguards are well-armed.

Exhibit C: Political correctness

Most universities now promote trigger warnings, safe spaces, snowflakes. For rape charges, no more innocent until proven guilty, no longer any presumption of innocence. Defendants can no longer confront accusers. Under Hillary, these exercises would no longer (mostly) be confined to universities.

As a libertarian, I preferred Gary Johnson to Donald Trump, despite his stepping on his tongue a few times and support for the evil socalled Civil Rights Act of 1964. Of course, Gary had no chance to actually win. So, my voting suggestion would have been: Yes, vote for Trump, but only in purple states. In clear red or blue ones, Johnson. In that way, libertarians can have our cake and eat it too. If the libertarians attain 5 percent, no more wasteful ballot drives. Hillary loses.

Johnson or Trump? Johnson. Trump or Clinton? Trump!

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    Todd Elliott KogerDec 4, 2016 at 3:36 pm

    The November 28, 2016, Chicago Sun-Times, Fran Spielman article: “Black Politicians Unite After Murder of Congressman’s Grandson” outlined specifically the exact plan that Todd Elliott Koger has shared with the Congressional black leadership, the “Movement for Blacklivesmatter,” Rev. Jesse Jackson, private foundations, and the like. In fact, Mr. Koger had already complained that the Urban League also usurped this proposal.

    None of the black leadership named in the Chicago Sun-Times article had previously demonstrated any interest for the suggestion until apparently “word got out that Mr. Koger also shared the Plan with Donald Trump.” That is, the black leadership named in the Chicago Sun-Times’ article has always taken direct issue with Mr. Trump arguing that “BLACKS ARE NOT LIVING IN THE PRECARIOUS SITUATION OUTLINED.” Donald Trump was the only one willing to listen to Mr. Koger (blacks have been voting almost 50 years “straight” Democrat and our situation remained the same or worst).

    First Mr. Trump issued an online video that addressed our plight. Next he went to Michigan and then took the message to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Thereafter, Mr. Koger packaged the visual optics and shared Mr. Trump’s fight against the “status quo” with black America to grow an arsenal of black Trump supporters.

    When “sh*t hit the fan” in October 2016 and everyone started to run from Mr. Trump . . . Mr. Koger suggested the need for a new “writing” for black America to put things back on track. Thereafter, Mr. Trump almost immediately issued a “New Deal For Black America.”

    Donald Trump owes his victory to “predominately black Democratic strongholds of Pennsylvania” who were convinced to give Mr. Trump more votes than the previous Republican Party presidential candidate. African Americans like Todd Elliott Koger convinced hundreds of thousands blacks in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and various other states to boycott the vote and/or the traditional “straight” Democratic Party vote.

    Mr. Trump’s “margin of victory” is realized when you combine this with an increase of “Obama white voters” in Wisconsin and Michigan voting Trump in 2016. Trump won Pennsylvania by 1.1 percentage points (68,236 votes), Wisconsin by 0.9 points (27,257 votes), and Michigan by 0.2 points (11,837 votes). If Hillary Clinton had won all three states, she would have won the Electoral College 278 to 260. She fell short in all three.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dieNd5h_qpw

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