Right. And it is a huge mistake. It's four years now of anti-Trump hysteria, all of which has failed, and which has produced record distrust in the media.
The NDAA in 2012 allowed the CIA and other alphabet soup agencies to produce/pay for domestic propaganda. Their tentacles are everywhere: in entertainment, news, movies, etc. A list of over 400 movies the defense department was involved with has been released recently. They're running candidates now.
In the 1960's as I grew up the Democrats were the Anti-war party, the party of Labor, progressive on gay rights - some really visible, understandable principles you can run an election on. But they've been corrupted.
The black-bag military and domestic police/war/spy agency operations have trillions of $ in resources all over the world at their command. You take control of the resources by bribing or extorting the leadership. All you need then is control of US ports, and ideally you want them run by foreigners with zero allegiance to the country. Like, say the UAE, officially an Islamic State. That's six US ports. What could go wrong, other than a lot of dead Americans, dead Afghanis, dead Pakistanis, dead Syrians, dead Iraqis, dead Yemenis, etc.
Once you control opium production in Afghanistan, shipment to Pakistan for processing, and then by diplomatic "pouch" (ocean container) to the USA to kill people by overdose of Fentanyl, you don't need taxpayer money. Once you are in control of weapons distribution to ISIS, you have all the stunningly beautiful whores and Chivas Regal you'll ever need.
The problem for the billionaires and deep state is that there are elections where people vote every now and then. When new people come in they have to either already be on board with the war crimes and drug money or Brownstone operations need to be set up for them. Get them filmed having sex with the beautiful hooker you sent in or the little boy.
It is bizarre with Trump in that he clearly aligns with the Military-Industrial-Security complex as it pertains to Israel, Saudi Arabia, and other Sunni crazies. Yet, he is so utterly loathed, so there is some big piece of this complex that Trump threatens. It seems to me this piece is mostly about nationalism vs globalism.
To run against Trump puts you on the side of the globalists. Trump ran on an "America First" platform while in fact pursuing an Israel First foreign policy, but nevertheless Trump means nationalism. Israeli nationalism mostly, but again it is perception that counts.
America is the wrong thing to be running against. You need to run FOR values that resonate with voters. Not a person, but values. Most elections are about the economy. Trump has stats you just cannot deny with unemployment and growth. It doesn't matter whether he can take credit for it or not, what is important is the unemployment rate and money in family wallets come election eve. It's the economy, stupid.
We learned in the 2016 how much of the election-related industries of polling and analysis has been completely compromised and is untrustworthy. The night of the 2016 race I watched the odds of Hillary winning go from 95% to the exact opposite prediction of 95% Trump from one screen to the next. That wasn't bad guessing. I'm trained in statistics. For more than a year Democrats were purposefully oversampled by polling firms. It was a huge red flag to me about the industry.
Their playbook appears to be the same in all the major respects so we should expect biased polls and analysts predicting blue as a means to herd voters. People want to feel like they're in the herd, and that's why the strategy of "racist, sexist, homophobe, label label label" worked well for years. Having Hollywood stars high on cocaine and booze, fresh from sex with a 12 year old make virtue-signalling noises for people supporting CIA drug and weapons operations.
The legacy media is controlled by a club that, in the words of George Carlin, you and me ain't in. Their agenda is so vastly different from what is portrayed by them.
Globalism isn't about black and white people holding hands and singing. It is about corporations being put in charge of who you can buy a pair of socks from. It's about blowing up babies for Raytheon.
Check out Jimmy Dore's show back in March on CIA running as democrats and a number of articles many have done since then. Dore is a hard core liberal, he isn't a Trumpist.
I don't want to pose Trump as the anti-deep state candidate because he is clearly all-in with the Middle East part of their program, and other places too. He's just not with their European plans and world trade agreements.
It is a huge problem for Democrats when the battle is really about weapons and drug rat-lines, MIC plunder, and globalism. Because then you need this giant noise machine producing fake reasons to be against anything perceived as "Trump". You need fake news, fake polls, fake analysis, and fake support from movie stars, etc. You need control over social media platforms so you can censor.
According to advertising spending patterns, congressional Democrats are hitting health care as their largest issue. Their second largest advertisement is jobs and the economy, so they're running on Trump.
Republicans are running on Trump, Trump, and Trump:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/08/07/2018-election-exclusive-health-care-trump-dominate-political-ads-senate-races/914978002/
Trump directly, the Trump tax cut, and Trump immigration.
This is very unusual in mid-term elections. Voters usually go against the president's party in midterms. So the congressman of the party in power distance themselves from the president.
When Trump ran for office, the entire Republican establishment was against him. Now look. A lot of people have learned not to bet against Trump.
It is important to see that the Democtatic leadership nationally is still full-on Trump Derangement Syndrome. But the people actually producing the advertising for congressional campaigns are going with health care and the Trump economy.
When we drill down on the Health Care ads, its pretty lame. Protecting people with pre-existing conditions. Neither party can claim moral high ground on health care. Obama brought in a baby with severe birth defects while Trump and the republicans didn't do repeal and replace.
Ironically, Democrats are also taking out ads against corruption in government. Because it looks like Trump is waiting for maximum electoral impact to release the juiciest redacted/withheld FBI documents. It's going to be shooting themselves in the foot.
