Amen brother.

– and domestic policy.

That’s why I’m pleading for some competent Illuminati to come along and think outside the analogy.

If that’s the case, won’t they still be running things no matter which figurehead wins the election?

Then why even bother hatin’ Hillary? Why even bother caring at all?

If you already know better, can’t you start knowing better?

(PS Maybe events after the 2000 election were unpredictable, but haven’t the events since the 2004 election been all-too-predictably bad for rent-seekers? Can’t we get some competent Illuminati?)

As Dave alluded, this was never about the best man for the job and the only expectation was reaping the dividends of a wired presidency.

While we’re on the dynasty thingie, I believe that a goodly number of people will automatically disqualify Hillary because they, like me, are very uncomfortable with the possibility that but two familes could rule America for 24 years.

Your perspective on how we got ourselves into our current mess — we gotta find something for the young man to do to keep him out of trouble and us in stock dividends — is more or less accurate, but you surely are not suggesting that the propellants were so naive or crass about the state of the world (the growing Islamofascist threat, the coming immigration crisis, the growing disparity between rich and poor Americans, the precarious state of the Israel-Palestinian relationship, North Korea, Iran, etc., etc.) that they thought they could elevate a minor league player to the big leagues?

Or is that exactly what you are suggesting? Elaborate, please.

There quite a few large, publicly-held companies in which a lots of the stock is held by family members of the founders of the companies and the families are, essentially, dependent on their stock dividends for their highly prosperous livelihoods.

If the earning sof these companies take a downturn, that’s bad for the family and, when that happens, the family uses its votes to put a family member in the CEO slot whose sole commission is to get the dividends on which the family depends up again. Two examples in which this has happened recently are Ford Motor Company and Anheuser-Busch.

That’s essentially what propelled George W. Busch into the presidency. The U. S. has a small but influential upper class that’s highly dependent on rent-seeking for its livelihood. They wanted a family member to ensure their position was maintained. GWB got tapped.

In 2000 nobody, least of all GWB or those who propelled him into the presidency, expected that in 2001 we’d be in a shootin’ war. And, all protestations from the Tranzi wing of the Democratic Party notwithstanding, by the end of 2001 we’d have been in a shootin’ war and we’d still be in one now regardless of who was president.