THE USA

The fight between patriotism and political correctness is the fight between good and evil.

That the US presidential campaign is mired in tittle-tattle should not deflect attention away from the important issues. The similarities between the USA and the declining Britain at the start of the 20^th century grow. Then, the towering figure of Joseph Chamberlain led the Tariff Reform Campaign with the forces of the establishment mobilised against him. The ruling Unionist government was split. Joseph Chamberlain toured the country to make speeches to packed venues.

Today, in the USA, the Republican Party is split, with the grandees, in particular Paul Ryan, knifing Donald Trump rather than supporting him. He tours the USA in a series of rallies that are packed out. The audiences are huge. He advocates a more protectionist approach to trade as well as opposition to mass immigration and political correctness. The US race hangs in the balance with Hillary Clinton ahead.

Clinton, like a grubby lawyer, is intent on smearing her way into the White House. The aim is answer the case made against her by discrediting her opponent. Currently, it is claimed, $millions are being offered by a Clinton donor for tapes of The Apprentice show, allegedly embarrassing to Donald Trump. This is how immoral and how malevolent Clinton is. Her stance is consistent with her previous treatment of those many women her husband has allegedly assaulted or with whom he has had affairs. For example, 'trailer trash' is how Hillary Clinton described one of them.

In the second election debate, Donald Trump was correct to point out the extent of Clinton's hatred and that she should be ashamed of herself. She plays the victim and peddles smears, yet it is she who is guilty of that which she accuses others. It is she who had Muslim parents at her conference attacking Donald Trump; it is she who is peddling the line that border controls are racist; she who divides society into supposedly oppressed groups who she then encourages to unite against the majority; it is she who has accused the Trump campaign of being 'built … on prejudice and paranoia', and of taking 'hate groups mainstream'; it is she who has made comment of the Trump rallies being 'largely white audiences' and alleging 'systemic racism'; it is she who has rehashed Frankfurt School communism with her allegation of there being an 'Alt-Right' with alleged 'Racist ideas. Race-baiting ideas. Anti-Muslim and anti-immigration ideas;' it is she who has alleged a supposed 'Trump Effect' with a message of 'Make America hate again' (see the English Rights Campaign item dated 15 September 2016). More brazenly, it was Clinton who said:

'You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? [Laughter/applause]. The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic — you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people, now have 11 million. He tweets and retweets offensive, hateful, mean-spirited rhetoric. Now some of those folks, they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America.'

It should be noted that she condemned these Trump supporters as not only 'deplorables' but also 'irredeemable'. Clinton has never properly apologised for these remarks, nor explained the contempt she has for ordinary people and their values. It is Clinton's political correctness that betrays itself in these remarks. In the recent debate she merely said that she was 'sorry about the way I talked about that'. It was her terminology she said she regretted – not her political correctness. The former BBC North American Editor, Justin Webb, recently wrote in the Daily Mail:

'You have to understand why Trump's people will genuinely back him to the last. For them, there is no other candidate, because all the other alternatives on the Republican side have more or less sold out – to big business, to special interests, to Wall Street. Trump is no less than a general leading an insurgent army. For the average Trump supporter, this is not politics: this is war. If they lose, they die … His people are not just gloomy, they are downright desperate. They are mostly white, and living in a nation where the white people will be a minority by 2050. Plenty of white Americans are happy with that prospect but, for those at the bottom of the pile, it feels frightening.'

It should be added that the establishment have also embraced political correctness, for which the ordinary people have never voted and do not want.  Given Clinton's sneer at the 'irredeemable' 'deplorables', one can well understand why. Backs are to the wall.

The fight between patriotism and political correctness is the fight between good and evil.