After almost eight years under the Hope and Change regime of Barack Obama many on the right are saying, “Who could be worse?”
It isn’t surprising to know that a significant number of the uncommitted and committed middle-of-the- roaders say they are going to vote for Trump.
What may be surprising is that a wide range of notables who are not conservative or republican answer that question of who could be worse than Obama with a resounding, “Hillary Clinton, of course.”
A number of libertarians and far left liberals are just as vocal that nothing could be worse than a Clinton presidency. The New York Times, reports that Clinton enters the general election with “enough political baggage to open a Samsonite outlet”.
Even so, the reporter said that Clinton’s baggage only served to make her more dangerous. Libertarian journalist Harry Stuckey describes Clinton’s foreign policy outlook as “far more dangerous than Barack Obama and even George Bush”.
Which is More Dangerous – An Ideologue or a Pragmatist?
Barak Obama is an ideologue first and a progressive second. Hillary Clinton is a progressive/centrist second but a pragmatist first.
An ideologue is, if anything, predictable. Obama is driven by his worldview. He told us what he would do before he was elected the first time, “To fundamentally change America.”
Should anyone, then, be surprised by the rapid changes the face of America has seen over the last seven years? He is a militant ideologue – he was in 2008, he is now, and always will be. Ideologues are fundamentally predictable – as predictable as their stated ideology.
By contrast, it is hard to predict what a pragmatist will do. Pragmatist live with their finger on the pulse of popular opinion and determine what to do based on that fickle reading.
The American electorate is notoriously untrustworthy in determining what it will want next – what is wildly popular can change with the turn on a few unexpected events.
As a pragmatist, Hillary Clinton will do whatever it takes to get into the White House and stay there as long as she can.
A Parable of Three Hurricanes
Clinton’s well documented personal volatility and tendency to take the pragmatic path, is mindful of three hurricanes that will never be forgotten by those living between the Florida panhandle and New Orleans. What all three had in common was their volatility and the unpredictability.
In 1969, meteorologists were settled on the fact that Category 5 Hurricane Camille had her sights set on the Florida panhandle with Pensacola at the dead center of its path.
To the experts surprise, the storm found an easier path. Camille brushed New Orleans and flattened the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Had the hurricane remained on its original path, the next deadly storm to take that path might well met a better prepared New Orleans .
In the case of Hurricane Katrina, the storm itself was nowhere as intense as Camille. Considering previous near hits, the flooding was predictable. But only those who knew Louisiana politics were prepared for the flood of political and civil ineptness that contributed to the death of nearly 2000 people.
One year later, Hurricane Ivan was even weaker and less worrisome to many hurricane experts. After all, the southwest wall of the hurricane practically disintegrated before it hit somewhere between Gulf Shores, AL and Pensacola, FL.
No one counted on the northeast wall, which is always the deadliest, spawning 120 tornadoes and making a straight path up Escambia Bay in Pensacola with a 17 foot storm surge. It breached houses sitting on the highest ground in the state and took out a span of Interstate 10, shutting it down for weeks.
What holds these three Hurricanes in common is their pragmatism. Each storm took the easiest path that presented itself at the last moment.
Clinton is more unpredictable than Obama because she is more pragmatic. If you can predict the American people and world events you can predict her.
The problem is, most of the experts aren’t very good prognosticators. Unpredictable pragmatism is dangerous, especially when you know the history of the Clintons unleashing their wrath on those who stand in their way.
Before Americans vote they should stop and ask that question again, “Who could be worse?”
~American Liberty Report
