Global elites confident that a Clinton victory is inevitable
By: Rachel Marsden
PARIS -- Here in France, members of the deeply entrenched establishment elite
are confident that the result of next week's American presidential election is a
foregone conclusion. They're convinced that the American people will reject
"vulgarity."
Former French Minister of Foreign Affairs Hubert Vedrine, a permanent
establishment fixture, declared to BFM TV: "There is little chance that (Trump)
will be elected -- it's evident. With his behavior, his aggressiveness, his
insane vulgarity -- let's say the word -- (Hillary Clinton) should be 30 points
ahead and not 10."
Hear that, America? It's "evident." Nothing left to do now except to go through
the charade of voting, and then the establishment candidate will assume her
rightful place among her peers.
Global elites such as Vedrine, who even authored a report on globalization for
then-French President Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007, fail to understand what true
vulgarity is to the average taxpaying citizen in a legitimately democratic
nation.
The French electorate is only ever presented with a choice between longtime
public-trough dwellers from sanctioned clans. They figure that America will vote
in similar fashion. Normally, they're correct, but American voters have a
once-in-a-lifetime chance to put the elites in their place and remind them that
they are servants of the people and not the other way around.
The arrogance of the elites blinds them to voter frustration with a system that
can afford to ignore average citizens as long as the members of the ruling class
take care of each other. I've seen union leaders in Paris dining at the finest
restaurants with the so-called political opposition. It's all a big charade. The
real battle isn't right vs. left; it's the political class vs. the rest of us.
Hillary Clinton is one of them; Donald Trump is one of us.
Emails recently published by WikiLeaks suggest that there were no significant
barriers separating Clinton's presidential ambitions, her family's foundation
and her role as secretary of state.
Secretaries of state deal with high-level foreign interests. When you have a
foundation collecting millions of dollars in donations from the same interests
with whom you're engaging as the head of the U.S. State Department, it's bound
to raise eyebrows.
Some are waiting for a smoking gun to materialize before Election Day. Isn't it
enough that we've already found so many bullet casings?
DCLeaks.com has published internal Open Society Foundations documents connecting
George Soros, the King Kong of globalism, to the international funding campaigns
intended to manipulate the agendas in electoral democracies. Julian Assange's
WikiLeaks has published emails from the account of Clinton campaign manager John
Podesta, who's also the founder of the Soros-funded Center for American
Progress, showing that Soros has enormous influence on Clinton and her team. The
Center for American Progress has already served as a recruiting ground for
officials in the Obama administration, including some of the U.S. Treasury
officials in charge of deciding which entities were designated as "too big to
fail" in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.
It's unsettling, to say the least, that during her tenure as secretary of state,
Clinton maintained a private email server in her home that was being used to
channel classified government information. You don't need a deep knowledge of
political protocol to instinctively understand that classified information
doesn't belong on your home computer next to your FarmVille icon.
Last week, FBI Director James Comey dropped a new bombshell.
"In connection with an unrelated case, the FBI has learned of the existence of
emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation," Comey wrote in a
letter to the heads of congressional oversight committees.
That "unrelated case" is reportedly a criminal investigation of former
Democratic congressman Anthony Weiner, who faces scrutiny for allegedly sexting
with a minor. Weiner, the estranged husband of key Clinton aide Huma Abedin, had
thousands of emails belonging to Abedin on his computer. The FBI is
investigating whether any of those emails contained classified information.
Clinton is dealing with an awful lot of dirty laundry for someone possibly about
to take on the multitude of new challenges that an election victory would bring.
The French elite pride themselves on multitasking -- simultaneously managing
their scandals and executing their professional duties. Authenticity and
honesty, on the other hand, is considered "vulgar" by elites such as Hubert
Vedrine.
If American voters have but one motivation to vote, let it be to shock those who
think that their self-serving system is permanent. The only way to do that is by
electing the outsider whom the elites despise: Donald Trump.
COPYRIGHT 2016 RACHEL MARSDEN