Election 2016 – The Roads Ahead and Beyond

Election 2016 – The Roads Ahead and Beyond

Election 2016 The Road Ahead

Now that the gavels are silent and the conventions have ended, we enter into the real election- an election that will say as much about who we are as a nation, as it will say about what type of country we are to become- and the roads ahead, and those beyond, take very divergent paths from each other.

The one road- known, familiar and totally ineffective, promises to continue a path towards a national transformation that then President-elect Barack Obama laid out on election night, 2008… a transformation from world leader, to “leading from behind”…a transformation from winning the global war against radical Islam, to denying that it even exists… a transformation from equal justice under law, to the double standards of a “Clinton-ocracy,” where some can flaunt the law and enrich themselves, unfettered from a Justice Department that will not indict…a transformation from color blind to black lives matter…a transformation from law and order towards mob rule anarchy…a transformation away from independence and towards a globalist super-state.

Such is the road ahead, should Hillary Clinton win the election.

The other road- unknown, uncertain and yet totally enticing, promises to break up a broken system…a broken system built on patronage, pay-for-play, and winking insiders with knowing nods, who play their games irrespective of the voters who put them in office…a road offered by a candidate who defies the political insiders of both parties with a politically-incorrect campaign style and an uncanny way of speaking to the forgotten people who have seen their paychecks drop or disappear, altogether… a forgotten people who have seen their hopes and dreams evaporate before their very eyes under the weight of oppressive regulations, globalist free-trade policies, excessive wealth re-distribution vis-a-vis confiscatory taxes…and all this from a showy candidate who offers reassurance to a forgotten people who fear for their own safety, in a nation that would otherwise incur and expand illegal immigration, drastically increase refugee resettlement into the U.S. from countries where radical Islamist ideology is rampant and widely practiced, and who would otherwise witness a continued and deadly war on law enforcement, ushering in an era of anarchy and violence as a result of the direction his opponent would take us…

Such is the road ahead, should Donald Trump win the election.

Beyond a Hillary Clinton presidency, the ensuing road would be devoid of many of the freedoms we, up until recently, have taken for granted, today…the right to own firearms, the right to express ourselves without harassment or censure from a ruling government class…the right to worship as we please…the right to lawfully petition for our grievances…all coordinated with, and under approval from, those who she would appoint to the United States Supreme Court. On such a road, whatever foreign policy we might otherwise have left, would have been sold for donations to the Clinton Foundation, to a degree not seen previously. The country that Hillary Clinton would leave behind is a country where races are pitted, one against the other, where the forces of speech codes on college campuses extend to the very places in which we live, and where we are told what to think, without question or scrutiny, and the voices to any dissent are silenced.

Such is the road beyond, should Hillary Clinton win the election.

Beyond a Donald Trump presidency, the ensuing road offers the chance to return us to the days where American pre-eminence is unquestioned, where we once again reclaim the industrial might that once led the world in innovation and scope, where our own American interests are secured and not subject to negotiation, before the interests of other nations are addressed. The country that Donald Trump would leave behind would be stronger, freer and more secure from the threats that face us from within and without. The re-emerging middle class would be upwardly mobile and expanding, and everyone would, at long last, be treated the same, without regard to the divisive criteria of race, sex, gender, religion or party affiliation. The country Donald Trump would leave behind would well be on the road towards, if not witnessing, the final defeat of radical Islamic totalitarianism.

Such is the road beyond, should Donald Trump win the election.

In the next fourteen weeks until election day, Americans will be bombarded with pollsters trying to prove that Donald Trump doesn’t stand a chance of winning, with “experts” from every field of study that say Trump’s policies can’t be implemented or will not work, and with well-funded and constant messages from the Clinton campaign saying that Donald Trump is psychologically unfit for office. We will be told who wins each of the debates, regardless of our own analysis to the contrary, and we will be told that the moderators are impartial when we know otherwise. All of this- every bit of it- will be done, and co-messaged by, a mainstream media fully in the tank for, and in collusion with, the Hillary 2016 campaign….and yet…and yet…

The roads ahead and the roads beyond remain vastly divergent from one another, and the real question and the one question before the people (who will ultimately decide which road will be taken), is whether or not the road we have been on is, indeed, the one on which we would seek to continue…

Buckle up.

-Drew Nickell, 2 August 2016

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