My focus during the presidential elections — as it has been for the last three elections — is on helping you understand what you can do to protect your assets before, during and after the election, and do so in a manner that helps create options for the winner other than being a waiter at the political banquet taking orders from the shadow government’s private party.
This presidential election is a special one for me. It is the first one since 1982 in which I do not associate one of the Presidential or Vice Presidential candidates with criminal harm done to me and my family. The newly found luxury of living without my family, friends and neighbors trying to persuade me to pay attention to and support someone associated with seriously harmed my family is one which I intend to savor this year and for the rest of my life. It is a welcome adjustment.
Occasionally, when I see an article on the campaign that is unusually insightful, I will post it. It is often from Sam Smith at The Progressive Review, who has the best presidential campaign analysis in the country. I will also post occasional comments about how the candidate’s money works or who is financing them.
During these periods, I feel like a person living in a small town. My fellow citizens have gathered at the local drive in to watch a new movie premiere. Meantime, a group of sophisticated thugs is systematically going though the town and robbing their assets. My efforts make a difference to a few. They ignore the movie, watch their home and protect their assets. Many still can not stop watching the movie. Sharing a discussion of what is happening brings the magic back into their lives that the breakdown of law and order is draining.
Occasionally a squabble will break out behind the movie screen that gives a hint of a much wider covert action going on behind the distribution and showing of the movie. Very few if any people notice. I like to ask questions about how these occasional events hint as to how the movie connects to the systematic looting going on back in town. If these posts seem tangential, they are not. They explore those anomalies that lead us away from the movie and back into the real game of protecting our families and assets.
All of your actions and investments are important, including who you vote for. If you can, give your local elections more of your election time attention than the national elections. Political control works one county at a time — it is bottom up as well as top-down. Having excellent people in position and supported locally can make a world of difference to you over the next four years. And all of our representatives will have more options if you and I decentralize our investment of attention, time and money. You vote once a year for political representation. However, every day of the year you make choices as to prayers, attention, purchases, donations, investments, deposits and other transactions that have a much more profound impact on your political representation than your vote every one, two and four years.
So all of your actions count. The goal of our coverage is to the best of our ability and resources to help make sure they all count for you and those you love.