Reply #54: Carter's bad rap is prima facie evidence that

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the cabal now running the country, which was characterized as the "vast rightwing conspiracy" in the 90's has been with us longer than most folks realize. He was victimized by the same sort of dirty tricks and deceit as Nixon's "plumbers" used, as the "Swiftboaters" used, and as the opposition tried to use throughout FDR's tenure. It goes all the way back to the Hamilton-Jefferson arguments even before the Constitution was written. Oligarchy, with power and wealth concentrated in the hands of the elite few like in medieval Europe, or democracy, with a country run by "We The People."

Today's assaults on the Constitution are nothing new. The Oligarchs didn't like it from the beginning, and we have endured cycles of rule by "robber barons" and "progressives" ever since.

Most people don't grasp the "big picture." They oversimplify the debate into a popularity contest where tie pins and various word choices mean something. They don't mean diddley. The election is, as has always been the case, a choice between Hamilton and Jefferson.