The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Is the U.S. election system really rigged? You betcha

- Pat Buchanan He writes for Creators Syndicate.

“Remember, it’s a rigged system. It’s a rigged election,” said Donald Trump in New Hampshire on Saturday.

The stunned recoil in this city suggests this bunker buster went right down the chimney. As the French put it, “Il n’y a que la verite qui blesse.” It is only the truth that hurts.

In what sense is the system rigged?

Consider Big Media — the elite columnists and commentato­rs, the dominant national press, and the national and cable networks, save FOX. Not in this writer’s lifetime has there been such blanket hatred and hostility of a presidenti­al candidate of a major party.

“So what?” They reply. “We have a free press!”

But in this election, Big Media have burst out of the closet as an adjunct of the regime and the attack arm of the Clinton campaign, aiming to bring Trump down.

Half a century ago, Theodore White wrote of the power and bias of the “adversary press” that sought to bring down Richard Nixon.

“The power of the press in America,” wrote Teddy, “is a primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping power is unrestrain­ed by any law. It determines what people will talk about and think about — an authority that in other nations is reserved for tyrants, priests, parties and mandarins.”

Big Media is the power that sustains the forces of globalism against those of Americanis­m.

Is the system rigged? Ask yourself.

For half a century, the U.S. Supreme Court has systematic­ally de-Christiani­zed and paganized American society and declared abortion and homosexual marriage constituti­onal rights.

Where did these unelected jurists get the right to impose their views and values upon us, and remake America in their own secularist image? Was that really the Court’s role in the Constituti­on?

How did we wind up with an all-powerful judicial tyranny in a nation the Founding Fathers created as a democratic republic?

When did the country vote to convert the America we grew up in into the Third World country our descendant­s will inherit in 2042?

When did we vote to institute pervasive discrimina­tion against white folks, especially white males, with affirmativ­e action, quotas and racial setasides? Even in blue states like California, affirmativ­e action is routinely rejected in statewide ballots.

In 2015, in the Democratic primaries, the big enthusiast­ic crowds were all for 75-year-old Socialist senator Bernie Sanders.

We now know, thanks to leaked emails, that not only the superdeleg­ates and the Obama White House but a collaborat­ionist press and the DNC were colluding to deny Sanders any chance at the nomination. The fix was in.

As present, it appears that in 2017, we may get a government headed by Hillary Clinton, and an opposition headed by Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell.

Is that what the people were hoping for, working for, voting for in the primaries of 2016? Or is this what they were voting against?

Big money and the media power of the establishm­ent elites and the transnatio­nals may well prevail.

And if they do, Middle America will have to accept the new regime.

But that does not mean they must love it, like it or respect it.

Because, in the last analysis, yes, Virginia, the system is rigged.

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