The Gain Control Series - Fat Cat? You're That!

by Dr. Ellen Brandt


The Gain Control series offers our two cents worth of advice to Candidate Trump, telling him how we - GOP Base Loyalists - might like him to respond, in debates and otherwise, to specific kinds of attacks by Hillary Clinton.


Next Up: Which is the Party of the (Very, Very) Rich?


At the Second Debate, Trump allowed Clinton to get away with calling Republicans the "Party of the Rich," not just once, but several times. That is simply inaccurate at this point in our nation's history. And it is important to this election and to the GOP's success that the truth about its being inaccurate should be proclaimed loudly and clearly and consistently to the American electorate, particularly by our Presidential candidate.


We understand how hard this is for Donald Trump, a man whose entire psychic identity, as it were, is tied up - tied up in knots! - with being wealthy and relishing being wealthy and being known, especially by the Media, for being wealthy.


Well, Donald, you can either hold on to that stance, or you can try to salvage this campaign.


Relinquishing your safety-blanket identity as a "Man Who is Rich" and boldly embracing a new identity as a "Man Of the People," who shares the anguish and the near-desperation of the 99 Percent of Americans who are not only not Rich, but at this point, are mostly pretty darn Poor, is the brave and the moral and the - Yes, reinvigorating! - stance that can turn this campaign around right here, right now, this very day.


Trump Channeling Our Advice (Rich Party, Poor Party): Every time my Opponent enters the Dreamworld of Political Correctness and calls the Republican Party the "Party of the Rich," both I and my supporters viscerally cringe.


Sorry, Hillary. Sorry, Democrats. That Myth is now the Myth-of-all-Myths, something based on conditions that may have been mildly accurate 60 years ago, when Dwight Eisenhower was President, there was thought to be something called a "Military-Industrial Complex," and Republicans were supposedly going to dances at posh country clubs, smoking cigars, and drinking martinis.


Even then, the Myth of the Fat Cat Republican was almost completely false. But today, it is not only false. It is the exact opposite of our current political and economic reality.


Because, Secretary Clinton, every single academic and economic study - every one - from universities, from think tanks, from government agencies, and from independent researchers shows that in 2016, the Party of the Rich is overwhelmingly the Democratic Party - or more specifically, the NeoLiberal, obscenely wealthy Fat Cats on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley, about 90 percent of whom pledge their allegiance - and offer their big bucks - to the Democratic Party and its Globalist Agenda - an Agenda that sees ordinary Americans as "Deplorables," practically another species from the so-called Thug-Elite, of which Hillary Clinton is a charter member.


In short, the Democratic Party is now the Party of the One Percent. The GOP is the Party of Everybody Else - and we are proud to say so.



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