Ted Rall for February 26, 2016

I am sorry to say Trump looks like the least horrible option.

Up until now, the Repubs have been gleeful to be hijacked by loonies, but now the chickens have come home to roost!

Trump, the lying Pope of Mammon, is very popular among the low information right wing voters. The right wingers love to exploit racism, sexism, classism, did you know Trump was very rich? See what republican tax breaks for the rich over 30 years have bought you? No jobs, just greedy pig billionaires.

A day late and a billion dollars short.

The GOP establishment first thought Trump was a fun idea. Then he was a joke. Then they couldn’t stop him.Now Trump is ready to sweep Super Tuesday and deliver himself the Republican nomination. The GOP is too late to stop this now. Cruz and Rubio won’t even be around by April.

Once again, people are confusing the idea of socialism with centralized governmental control. Socialism historically has meant ‘the ownership and control of the means of production by the workers’ — nothing to do with government control of industry. In any event, neither Sanders nor Clinton nor any other prominent politician is an actual socialist of either the workers-own-and-control or the government-control variety. Sanders’s use of the word seems to be a joke, and turns out to mean Welfare state / New Deal, an anti-socialist arrangement pioneered by Otto von Bismarck. 60% or 70% of the American people favor this arrangement. Hardly anyone thinks mass murder will be the result.

Rubio has been quoted in the media as saying that if the Constitution and the laws are opposed to ‘God’ (that is, his peculiar beliefs about God) they have to be set aside. He’s as much a religious fanatic as Cruz. I don’t know how he became the Establishment candidate. The Republicans and the Right seem to have gone down the drain mentally.

I wish people would do a little reading.

All very true ‘cept the trumpster fire winning part. There will be so many republicans voting for Hillary it’ll be “hillarious.”