The 2016 U.S. Presidential Race Made Simple

“Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.”
~ Henry David Thoreau

By Catherine Austin Fitts

If you are a U.S. citizen, one New Year Resolution you should make for 2016 is to strictly budget the amount of time and money you spend on 2016 federal, state and local elections.

Let’s say you budget (20) hours for the year. Add a resolution to spend 80% or more of your time and campaign donations making sure you are registered and learning about and supporting great local candidates. Since real economic control is engineered one community at a time, your local, state and Congressional representatives are critical to your governance and the governance of the country.

Let’s say that leaves (4) hours for the Presidential elections. Here are recommended guidelines to help you make a sound choice with that amount of time:

Guideline #1: Focus a Week Before:
Decide as to whether you will vote and for whom in the week before the primary in your state and a week before the general election.

Guideline #2: Entry Level Positions:
The Presidency of the United States is not an entry level position. Ignore any candidates without serious political and government experience.

Guideline #3: A Multipolar World Favors Youth:
Anyone over 50-55 years of age has been trained to function in a uni-polar world. They do not have the physical stamina or practical experience to thrive in the multi-polar world now emerging. Choose someone who has the capacity to lead on the road ahead by eliminating anyone over 50-55 years of age.

Guideline #4:
Now that you have simplified the choice by adhering to Guidelines #1-3, assess the character and history of the eligible candidates that remain. Look at the quality of the people they attract and hire. In addition to staffing the top positions in the Executive Branch, the next President is likely to lead the choice of 4+ nominees to the Supreme Court. Do they believe in and are they attracted to a successful future? Go to http://opensecrets.org and review their personal finances and campaign funding. While their policy statements and promises may be interesting, the reality is that the winner will adhere to what the machine and financial realities require of them once in office.

Risk Management: This is for all global citizens. Add one more action to your New Year planning. For your scenario planning for 2016, choose the two candidates whom you believe would be the very worst for the United States, for your country and for you and your family. Build a scenario for a victory for each of these candidates with the worst possible consequences. Now, prepare a plan for what you will do if that were to happen. Once you have a plan for the worst case, you can stop fretting about it. Fretting increases the chance that you will waste time on election coverage and its related media entrainment and subliminal programming. The actual results in November will tell you what you have to do to revise your plans between November and a January 2017 inauguration.

In 2016, use your precious time to build health and wealth for you and the people you love. Any attention you give to the 2016 U.S Presidential campaigns (beyond that which ensures that you exercise your responsibilities as a citizen) is at best a distraction. At worst, it is an expensive drain and theft of your time.