I have been lurking a while, but those that remember my posts in the past might remember me as fiercely independent.
In the 2000 campaign, I joined the Reform party, was a delegate at the convention, representing the 8th district of Wisconsin. One of the things I remember most about that campaign, was the issue of "free trade." Pat Buchanan was cheated out of the Republican nomination, by being labeled a "bigot," a "racist," and an "αnтι-ѕємιтє" , consequently running on the Reform Party ticket, and was really the second candidate to talk about the trade problem. The first, as I recall, was another billionaire named Ross Perot.
I think one bonus about Trump is that he learned that in order to actually do something, he couldnt go that route. It had already been tried, and after CIA ops did everything they could ( through the fake "Natural Law Party" at the Reform Party convention I
saw these people with my own two eyes and only two years after the convention were they exposed did anyone hear about them on page 12, if it was even in the newspapers at all) to bury the possibility of a third party ever emerging again. (How amusing :) I found video of me at the Reform Party Convention nominating Ezola Foster. C-span has the whole thing. The audio was having problems that day, but it was day 3, session 1, right around the 24:10 mark, in case anyone wanted to look.) As usual, revisionist historians try to pin blame on Pat Buchanan as a purposeful destroyer of the Reform Party.
At any rate, you had the tired argument (especially now) from people saying, "if you vote Buchanan, you're voting for Gore." Weve had decent candidates before, heck, Buchanan might go to the indultery, but he is a very devout man, and people did NOT vote their conscience. Instead, they would vote for a satanist!
Between these elections, I joined a 501c (4) (I think) called Save American Manufacturing (SAM, for short.) A lady and a gentleman from a suburb of Milwaukee started it, to draw attention to the China/NAFTA issues that both parties were flag wavers for (perhaps more Republicans than Democrats, only because of the mostly controlled commie union vote). I saw factories closing left and right, and I wasn't going to sit around and watch that happen. I started becoming savvy at researching on the internet, and I learned how to navigate the Thomas website, and began compiling voting records for meetings with businesses that the people I was helping were trying to unite, small and medium sized manufacturers, primarily.
A lobbyist from AMTAC noticed my work, often tireless work, that I was doing for Cathy (RIP) for free, and he offered to hire me for a very satisfactory salary, 30 hours a month.
We got some press, for a while, and then, people got apathetic and obviously the establishment had designed this to entirely wipe out the middle class. Russ Feingold (yes, I know, Jew) liked my spunk and suggested, pointing right at me, that I should run for office. Of course it was out of the question. I was not a liberal, and was a mother of 3 small children at the time. Plus, not my place, et cetera.
My boss was relegated to the sock industry after the megalith beast that is the boondoggle called trade, defeated him. I spoke with him a couple months before he died and talked with him about the compartmentalization and total control of the world through these agreements, to which he replied, "This is so much bigger than we can even dent. I know."
Skipping 2004, other than to say, Bush didnt get help from me. I voted constitution party that year.
In 2008, Ron Paul was running in the primary, and got the shaft, and that corpse of a traitor, McInsane, wasn't getting my vote. The Establishment on the Republican side lost that one on purpose. I thought by then people would start to get the Carol Quigley paradigm. But they really didn't.
In 2008, when Ron Paul ran, people were starting to listen, some people anyway. A couple months ago, I read one of the sickest nuggets of revisionist history I've ever seen, and that was the fairy tale that Rick Santorum won Iowa. First it was magical underwear Obamney, and then Rick Santorum. The fact is, that RON PAUL won Iowa. You know why first, you didn't hear about that, and second, he couldn't do anything about it? Here's proof first, of what I'm saying.
http://www.businessinsider.com/ron-paul-wins-iowa-caucuses-2012-6Why could he do nothing? He was asking for money multiple times a month for his campaign. He was running on individual donations, and it simply was not enough. When he gained traction, they labeled him the same way they labeled Buchanan, and it was pretty much over.
Enter 2016. After the obvious rigged railroading of Ron Paul, I had given up entirely, but would still write in if we had another tweedle-dee/dum scenario like we've experienced since... well, at my age, in my oldest memory, just based on principle. It was all rigged, they're playing all of us for fools. It's over.
I never fell for Rand Paul's craplines. After his praise for Israel, the Wailing Wall photo op, and the pledge for foreign aid to continue there, certainly he was NOT his father, who, incidentally had Traditional Catholics working in his office for many years.
I really didnt pay much attention to things at all until the field narrowed a bit more. 12 people with lackluster talent... sellouts to the establishment and the banks... no thanks. Don't care. Republicans had so many chances to get it right over the last 20 years that I was voting age, and they blew it every time. SO, whatever we end up with, we sure as hell deserve.
Until last weekend when I got really curious as to why the media and pundits were in absolute freakout mode over Trump. I thought, "How stupid are we as a country that we would seriously consider electing a reality TV show host?!" But then, I actually listened to him, and it all became clear...
The globalists are scared crapless of Trump right now, and if he is who he says he is, I surmise one of two things could happen: 1) if Trump really tries to do what he says, he is putting himself in a very dangerous place, and if he gets elected, the recognized beginning, (not official of course because its already started and we know) 'of WWIII will commence, and he might end up being αssαssιnαtҽd. 2) If he's a fraud, well, at least we didn't ask for someone that was unapologetically from the groups that want to destroy the country in insert-name-of-any-establishment-candidate-on-either-side-including-CanadaCruz-here.
Bottom tl`dr: I'm giving Trump a chance. Traditional Catholics need jobs to support their families. Good jobs that pay a decent wage that the woman can stay home and homeschool. That is fast becoming out of reach for many, and fine, if Trump is a fraud, the other ones would keep going down the same track as before, maybe one applying breaks slightly more often, the other speeding up the wreck. I'm for attempting to fix it. If he's lying, then fine. Taking the risk. I've always voted my conscience, and I'm not stopping now. Thanks.
I thought of one more thing... Father Bolduc said that he wished he could live long enough to vote against Obama (he didnt sadly) but he would vote for Donald Duck if he were running. Hillary IS Obama with a different spelling, so maybe even he would have voted for Trump. :) Maybe...