The Political Industrial Complex* (PIC) brought out their big ‘sleaze guns’ and took their best shot at Donald Trump. As I posted earlier,  other candidates from outside the PIC have similarly been challenged, and they were chased out of their elections (see Herman Cain for President). The ‘news media’ – the propaganda arm of the PIC that protects its denizens from real elections – dug through their hot mic archives to magically try and save Hillary Clinton.

Jazz Shaw at Hot Air stated it well:

Now we are expected to believe that only then, after nearly two years of Trump blossoming on the political stage, somebody at the sprawling behemoth of NBC Universal woke up from a nap during a staff meeting and said, “Hey. Wait a minute, now. Didn’t we have about a bazillion interviews with this Trump fellow on Access Hollywood and other celebrity related programming where he was saying all sorts of goofy and potentially damaging stuff? And didn’t he do the Stern show a million times and talk about all sorts of pornographic, filthy stuff about strippers and what have you? Do you think we still have any of that lying around? Maybe it’s worth taking a look!”

Riiigght.

The denizens of the PIC were so ecstatic! So sure Trump would fold or the GOP would push him out. The GOP side of the PIC ran for the exits in a flurry of prudish pretending. Finally someone stopped Donald Trump!!

Or did they?

One of the biggest frustrations on Main Street is how our elections don’t change the trajectory of a nation well off track. Herman Cain was the “Don’t Tread On Me” candidate in 2012, until he  bowed out in the face of past indiscretions. We were left with PIC denizen Mitt Romney. The Tea Party was going to shake up the PIC with a sea of outsider candidates – but most were taken out by the PIC.

So most voters just turned off and tuned out. If there is no Hope of real Change, why bother.

When the news broke on Trumps trashy guy talk (and this was mild compared to what I have heard over my 56 years) I felt the same old shoe drop – Trump would quit like all the others before him.

But he didn’t. And the first poll out of the gate proves that the PIC’s ‘sleaze gun’ missed its mark.

Overall, fewer than four-in-10 voters — 39 percent — think Trump should end his presidential campaign, while only slightly more voters, 45 percent, think he should not drop out.

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Still, Hillary Clinton leads Trump in the four-way race for the White House by four points, 42 percent to 38 percent, with eight percent supporting Gary Johnson, three percent supporting Jill Stein and nine percent undecided. Clinton also leads by four in a two-way race, 45 percent to 41 percent.

That is a 1 point drop since the news broke, which is statistical noise.  Given the Margin of Error in the poll, this should technically be stated as a “no impact yet” in the race.

But something else is brewing. Tonight is the big debate (which it looks like I will miss). It will be Trump playing the outsider, the under dog, the “Cinderella” role. Hillary, will be the old and tired entrenched power.

She is the person who will lead the PIC in stealing a huge slice of everyone’s American Dream (taxes) and forcing us to use the remainder in a way they demand (laws, regulations and policies). If you are fed up sending your hard earned money to the IRS, or are not thrilled with Obamacare, or you work in the coal industry, then you are not supporting Hillary.  And after decades of royally screwing up, Main Street is done with the denizens of the PIC and their sleazy games.

So, if tonight becomes a battle royal, where Trump becomes the champion of “deplorables”, then the PIC’s ‘sleaze gun’ will have misfired and taken the PIC out instead of Trump.

Trump actually will gain support the more he challenges Hillary and the moderators. Just ask Speaker Paul Ryan.

* The Political Industrial Complex encompasses all those elites whose livelihoods are predicated on central-control of resources and who determine who is allowed to succeed in society. It is a bipartisan exclusive club. It includes the Politicians and their career staffers. It includes crony donors and lobbyists who reap government windfalls and special treatment that average citizens cannot obtain. It includes the PIC industrial base of pollsters, consultants, etc. And it includes the pliant news media, whose success rest on access to those in power, and in return for access making sure no bad news will disrupt said power.

Tags: 2016 Election, Clinton, Political Industrial Complex, Sleaze, Trump