2016: The Election Bigger
than any Candidate
By JB Williams
PatriotsUnion.org
In a nation intended to be self-governed by and for
the people themselves under the Constitution and
Bill of Rights, the tradition of becoming campaign
star struck by any person seeking an office of
public service is strange in and of itself. It seems
Americans have developed a self-destructive habit of
treating wannabe politicians like movie stars and
elected public servants like royalty. Then they sit
and wonder why their “heroes” see the people as mere
peasants…
Much of the time, an election seems no more
important than which restaurant to pick on date
night, as life seems to just keep rolling along no
matter the outcome of an election. But once in a
while, an election is so critical that it threatens
the very life, liberty and happiness of every
American. That election is bigger than any
candidate.
Such is the case in 2016…
I was born one of six children and have two of my
own now, one in college, the other soon to be. Their
K-12 experience was quite different than my own,
almost every child they met, from a broken home, a
family in some form and level of crisis, and we live
in one of the finest areas of the country.
Unlike when I was growing up, some of their
schoolmates died of a drug overdose or committed
suicide before they could graduate high school. A
few were pregnant before they could even enter high
school. Many were “confused” about their sexuality,
were bullied into a deep depression, or destroyed by
the social media rumor mill, as they watched others
their own age gunned down by classmates in cities
across the country.
No, their America was not my America. We were
experiencing two very different America’s.
In the America I grew up in, it took a good family
to raise a decent human being. The America my kids
were growing up in didn’t want good parents to raise
children anymore… they wanted society at large, “the
village” to raise the children and there was nothing
decent about it. The commune was raising a
generation of indecent young people and pitting them
against their parents, their country and even
themselves.
My kids called our home “Williams Island,” where
things worked very differently from the rest of the
world, according to my children, who were quite
certain at the time that mom and I simply “did not
understand how the real world works now.” Because
the world was so different, my kids often thought of
“Williams Island” as a maximum security prison. Much
of what was acceptable in “the real world” was
simply not acceptable on “Williams Island.”
My kids were right about one thing – the world is
very different now. It’s not the America that I grew
up in.
By 2016, a known card-carrying Marxist Bernie
Sanders seemed the best hope for the future to the
young voter. In their minds, having been raised by
the commune and indoctrinated in K-12 and on the
college campus to believe that freedom and liberty
were evil imperialist ideas and the greater good of
the commune was good, they gathered behind Sanders
as if he was the pied piper of American Marxism.
In the end, they watched their hopes for a devoted
Marxist go up in flames as Sanders sold them out by
endorsing known criminal Marxist Hillary Clinton at
the summer DNC Convention. Angered by the sell-out
of their Marxist hero Bernie, they exited the
convention in protest, leaving only a smattering of
DNC delegates in the convention hall by the time
Clinton took the stage for her “historic” speech as
the “first female presidential nominee” in U.S.
history.
History was being made alright enough… but the
gender of the candidate had nothing to do with it.
The open outright theft of a nomination was
historical in nature and every Bernie Sanders
supporter knew it. The young had just gotten their
first taste of rotten DNC politics and they didn’t
like it.
Meanwhile, over in the Republican Party, voters
watched as a record seventeen GOP primary candidates
were eliminated one-by-one, state-by-state until
only one GOP candidate would remain standing, the
dark horse outsider Donald Trump, who was drawing
passionate reaction from both those who love him and
those who hate him.
Throughout his private sector career as a builder of
things, Trump was well-known as an unapologetic
self-promoter – a loud and sometimes brash public
figure who had seemed to master the art of free
publicity by simply tossing verbal grenades into the
news room and waiting for someone to react. Trump
spent less money defeating sixteen GOP opponents
than Clinton spent defeating Bernie Sanders, just
because he knows how to play the media for free
exposure.
But some of those antics frustrated some and
confounded his opponents, while it mesmerized
others. Many who had spoken out against political
correctness in the past, were now calling for Trump
to “tone it down” and become more “politically
correct” (aka presidential) in his messaging. They
wanted Trump to stop ruffling the feathers of DC
insiders and their minions in the press.
Now that we have covered the “candidate” part of the
2016 election, let me get to the real issue of the
2016 election… an issue bigger than any candidate.
It does not matter if you love Trump or hate Trump.
What matters is whether or not you love America… not
the America my kids had to grow up in after decades
of leftist influence in America, but the America
that I grew up in, before leftists destroyed my
country.
In the America that I grew up in, not only did we
all own guns at a young age, many of us carried them
with us to school because we were going hunting
either before or after school. No one ever
brandished a weapon at a schoolmate or shot anyone.
There was no social media, where kids could
“cyber-bully” each other until someone shot their
bullies or themselves. The victim didn’t receive the
same punishment as the bully in a world where
“equality” meant that both attacker and victim were
guilty of the crime.
Authority figures had authority because they lived
by and enforced the rule of law, not because they
were above the law. The laws pertained to and were
equally applied to everyone, regardless of race,
creed or color. The pledge of allegiance and morning
prayer was not only welcome in every classroom, but
encouraged in every facet of American life.
Politicians weren’t movie stars or royalty, they
were public servants, elected by the people to
represent the will of the majority without any right
to trample on any minority through political
process. Lying and cheating was an unacceptable
behavior, as opposed to today, when even tyranny,
treachery and treason appear to be totally
acceptable behaviors, seldom even reported by the
press or held to account by the voters.
2016 must be a turning point election, or it will be
the point of no return election.
The 2016 election is not an election about Hillary
Clinton, the first criminal Marxist female
candidate, or Donald Trump, the bombastic business
mogul outsider. It is an election about much more
than any candidate, party or partisan interest item.
2016 is the final tipping point for America.
The point at which America votes itself off the
cliff, into a Marxist global abyss run by criminals
and tyrants, or votes to inch its way back from the
cliff, buying itself a little time, not for Trump to
“Make America Great Again,” a worthy cause which no
one person is capable of achieving alone, but for
Americans to make America great again.
It really has very little if anything to do with
Donald Trump. Love him, hate him, it makes no
difference.
Trump is a human being… He is one man. He is less
than perfect, just like every other human being. He
may fully intend to “Make America Great Again,” and
I hope he is sincere in that endeavor. He is a very
capable human being, as proven by his personal track
record of achievements. But he is still just one
imperfect man, alone, incapable of the lofty goal he
has set as the foundation of his campaign.
Only Americans can Make America Great Again
More than at any time in my life, the 2016 election
is a make-or-break election. It’s not about Trump or
Clinton. It’s about what kind of America we want as
American citizens – The kind I grew up in, or the
kind my kids were forced to grow up in, where
“Williams Island” was the only safe and secure
refuge from the so-called “real world” we all find
ourselves forced to tolerate these days.
Do we want a decent America, or the indecent America
that the global political left has forced upon us
all for decades now? Do we want a free, sovereign
and secure America, or do we want to be part of a
borderless global Marxist commune where everyone is
equally destitute?
The 2016 election is just that simple, and just that
important.
This column is why Timothy Harrington and I decided
to write and release our first book, TRUMPED: The
New American Revolution… not a book about mere
politics, or a cheerleading book for any political
candidate.
The American people simply must know the whole truth
about who and what we are fighting in this country
today, or they are certain to lose the 2016 election
and their country forever. Like the election, the
book TRUMPED has nothing to do with any candidate.
It is about a movement spreading across America in a
last ditch effort to walk America back from the
brink of extinction.
I don’t believe that American voters can or will
make the right choices in November without knowing
what that choice is really all about. If voters
allow themselves to be hoodwinked again by their
press and the party machinery, they will get this
election wrong, just as they did in 2008 and 2012.
©JB Williams
jb.uspu@gmail.com