Is the System Rigged? You Betcha.

A Commentary by Patrick J. Buchanan

"Remember, it's a rigged system. It's a rigged election," said Donald Trump in New Hampshire on Saturday.

The stunned recoil in this city suggests this bunker buster went right down the chimney. As the French put it, "Il n'y a que la verite qui blesse." It is only the truth that hurts.

In what sense is the system rigged?

Consider Big Media -- the elite columnists and commentators, the dominant national press, and the national and cable networks, save FOX. Not in this writer's lifetime has there been such blanket hatred and hostility of a presidential candidate of a major party.

"So what?" They reply. "We have a free press!"

But in this election, Big Media have burst out of the closet as an adjunct of the regime and the attack arm of the Clinton campaign, aiming to bring Trump down.

Half a century ago, Theodore White wrote of the power and bias of the "adversary press" that sought to bring down Richard Nixon.

"The power of the press in America," wrote Teddy, "is a primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping power is unrestrained by any law. It determines what people will talk about and think about -- an authority that in other nations is reserved for tyrants, priests, parties and mandarins."

On ABC's "This Week," Newt Gingrich volunteered on Sunday that, "without the unending one-sided assault of the news media, Trump would be beating Hillary by 15 points."

On this one, Newt is right.

With all due respect, as adversaries, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are not terribly formidable. Big Media is the power that sustains the forces of globalism against those of Americanism.

Is the system rigged? Ask yourself.

For half a century, the U.S. Supreme Court has systematically de-Christianized and paganized American society and declared abortion and homosexual marriage constitutional rights.

Where did these unelected jurists get the right to impose their views and values upon us, and remake America in their own secularist image? Was that really the Court's role in the Constitution?

How did we wind up with an all-powerful judicial tyranny in a nation the Founding Fathers created as a democratic republic?

There are more than 11 million illegal immigrants here, with millions more coming. Yet the government consistently refuses to enforce the immigration laws of the United States.

Why should those Americans whose ancestors created, fought, bled and died to preserve America not believe they and their children are being dispossessed of a country that was their patrimony -- and without their consent?

When did the country vote to convert the America we grew up in into the Third World country our descendants will inherit in 2042?

In the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a Congressional majority voted to end discrimination against black folks.

When did we vote to institute pervasive discrimination against white folks, especially white males, with affirmative action, quotas and racial set-asides? Even in blue states like California, affirmative action is routinely rejected in statewide ballots.

Yet it remains regime policy, embedded in the bureaucracy.

In 2015, in the Democratic primaries, the big enthusiastic crowds were all for 75-year-old Socialist senator Bernie Sanders.

We now know, thanks to leaked emails, that not only the superdelegates and the Obama White House but a collaborationist press and the DNC were colluding to deny Sanders any chance at the nomination.

The fix was in. Ask Sanders if he thinks the system is rigged.

If there is an issue upon which Americans agree, it is that they want secure borders and an end to trade policies that have shipped abroad the jobs, and arrested the wages, of working Americans.

Yet in a private speech that netted her $225,000 from Brazilian bankers, Hillary Clinton confided that she dreams of a "common market, with open trade and open borders" from Nome, Alaska, to Patagonia.

That would mean the end of the USA as a unique, sovereign and independent nation. But the American press, whose survival depends upon the big ad dollars of transnational corporations, is more interested in old tapes of the Donald on The Howard Stern Show.

As present, it appears that in 2017, we may get a government headed by Hillary Clinton, and an opposition headed by Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell.

Is that what the people were hoping for, working for, voting for in the primaries of 2016? Or is this what they were voting against?

Big money and the media power of the establishment elites and the transnationals may well prevail.

And if they do, Middle America -- those who cling to their bibles, bigotries and guns in Barack Obama's depiction, those "deplorables" who are "racist, sexist, xenophobic, homophobic," who are "not America" and are "irredeemable" in Hillary Clinton's depiction -- will have to accept the new regime.

But that does not mean they must love it, like it or respect it.

Because, in the last analysis, yes, Virginia, the system is rigged.

Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of the new book "The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority." To find out more about Patrick Buchanan and read features by other Creators writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators website at www.creators.com.

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  • Very good commentary here; in addition, read the number of dead that have voted and been found?  That number will increase beyond what it is now; how about Trump ballots being cut videotaped and guess whom was doing this?  How about the reverse and found in cardboard boxes, back of trucks, etc., waiting to be moved to the polling places..if that is not enough, POS it was being touted, signed over 300,000 cards making it legal for these ???? to vote...

    • In NY, voters only need to show their state-issued ID card and they can vote.  The process of obtaining one of these ID cards does not involved any questions or verifiable information about citizenship.  There are probably other states that do the same thing.

  • "Middle America -- those who cling to their bibles, bigotries and guns in Barack Obama's depiction, those "deplorables" who are "racist, sexist, xenophobic, homophobic," who are "not America" and are "irredeemable" in Hillary Clinton's depiction -- will have to accept the new regime."   

    Pat, if Hillary wins Americans don't have to accept the new regime. We can do what T.J. said in the Declaration of Independence. You know what I'm talking about. Americans will not put up with this. A revolution will happen fast. Knowing what Hillary is through proof of these leaked emails it's game on. Civil disobedience will start it off. Then when they come for our guns that's all she wrote.

  • Good article.

  • The only way to fix this problem that we have is to eliminate the problem.

    • Steven G.Elliott

      Gee, that would be so nice to rid the world of Democrats...:O)  I am kidding..

      I just heard the rat in chief, speaking with the leader of Italy..Seems they too need a bail out...
      A faux Reporter asked about the FBI and the Bribe, what I call Obstruction of Justice..This was yesterday in the wikileaks..(hillary's emails)  The President replied, "that has already been decided, it was found to be false."

      So they are planning to push that one under the rug.. We cannot allow this any longer. What do we do to

      confront this illegal, corrupt, Dept of Justice and administration?

      Below they are saying ONE PARTY ONE SYSTEM.. Please Harry, address this to them. We cannot corrupt our system of Government.. Explain to these people, please.

      • Carolyn........I have made my voice known for many years.  America is so fickle they move from voice to voice at the drop of a hat............and the corrupt, rigged news media knows it...........

        Until America use our common-sense and begins to "think for ourselves", and the time is short, it will be business as usual.

      • Our founders never spoke of any need for political parties, because that is conducive to corruption.

  • Until we eliminate political parties from this country the system will always be rigged. One man one vote until that happens we really do not have a choice.

    • Agree!  Vote for ideas not Party Loyalty. Then you can tell what a Candidate really stands for.

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