'Moore ignores anti-capitalist outrage of Trump, Clinton'

Michael Moore is right that Donald Trump could win the 2016 US presidential election by appealing to the racists in America, but he has ignored anti-capitalist outrage directed at both Trump and Hillary Clinton, says Myles Hoenig, an American political analyst and activist.

"I'm sorry to have to be the buzzkill here so early on, but I think Trump is going to win,” American documentary filmmaker and author Michael Moore said on Thursday.

The 62-year-old said Trump would exploit angry white voters in his favor, and Americans are likely to support him like British citizens voted in June to leave the European Union — known as Brexit.

“Trump might not be ‘as stupid as he looks’, says Michael Moore, but Moore isn’t as smart as he thinks. All the conditions he set for why Trump could win are true but there are so many caveats that making a prediction this early is being presumptuous,” said Hoenig, a Green Party candidate for Congress.

“Back in 2000 Moore endorsed Ralph Nader of the Green Party against Gore and Bush. Bush won by stealing the election and liberals like Moore have been blaming Nader, rather than the Bush team or of Gore’s lousy campaigning, for the loss,” he told Press TV on Friday.

“In 2004 he publicly apologized for all Nader supporters for the loss. That kind of arrogance shows more of a grandstander and glory hound he is rather than an astute political analyst,” he added.

“All the data is in and Nader’s 937 votes in Florida did not lose the election for Gore. Those are small numbers and actually represent the ‘smallness’ of one’s ability to analyze the results dispassionately. Yet today, with Clinton’s numbers dropping, Trump’s numbers rising, and the appearance and greater media coverage of Gary Johnson of the Libertarian Party and Jill Stein of the Green Party is making a lot of Moore-type liberal pundits nervous,” he stated.

Michael Moore is wrong about Brexit

“Moore’s main argument is that Trump is feeding off of the Brexit attitudes of white racists in America. And he is right that Trump will draw heavily from those who are for a ‘white’ America: the KKK, white supremacists, overt racists, poor whites who see others as a reason for their condition,” said Hoenig.

“But Moore is very wrong about Brexit and it’s reflected in his thinking about Trump’s constituency. Yes, Great Britain voted for it with a very strong racist tint to it. People who voted were outright racist towards immigrants in particular. The truly ugly side of Brexit was the bigotry and racism. However, that was the media’s version, what they wanted people to see. It makes for a good story,” he explained.

“What they didn’t want advertised was that Brexit was also a rejection of the corporate control of Parliament and giving in to the German banks, allowing them and others to set the rules. Brexit was a nationalist revolt against the philosophy of corporate control of the economy,” he continued.

“Besides, if Alan Greenspan, former head of the US Federal Reserve saying that the vote in Great Britain was ‘…the worst period I recall since I've been in public service,’ then you know the greater issue was to maintain international banking control of all economies,” the analyst pointed out.

Trans-Pacific Partnership and Brexit

“Here in the US we have the fight over the TPP [the Trans-Pacific Partnership], which is similar to the recent vote in England. There are many reasons to oppose it but for many the loss of national sovereignty to corporations is paramount. Under the TPP, corporations could sue governments over environmental or labor regulations and the judges would be the corporate lawyers. The fix is in,” Hoenig said.

“This ties all in with whether Trump will win or not. Moore says his victory will be based on racism and the lowest reaches of American thinking. What the Clinton camp needs to worry about is that the anger against corporate control of everything in the US, big money in politics, is driving her opposition,” he observed.

“Bernie Sanders ran on this issue and the largest demographic groups supported him: the younger generation and independents. Trump knows this too, and although he’s playing to the racists in his party and racist independents, keeping money out of politics is his side issue, which we see was a winning issue during the campaign between Clinton and Trump,” the activist said.

Trump, Clinton support corporate control of economy

“The irony is the three known candidates running, Clinton, Trump and Johnson, all support the corporate control of our economy,” Hoenig said.

“Only the Libertarian is honest enough to admit it. The only candidate who actually is running on keeping an anti-corporate platform is Jill Stein of the Green Party. She takes no PAC money or corporate money and calls for serious taxes on the wealthy, opposes the TPP, unlike all the others, supports the demilitarization of our foreign policy and our police force, and, if given any substantial traction by the media, the one true element in this race that could hurt Clinton and Trump,” he stated.

“Trump could win but nobody can really say. The dynamics are there for a real run against Clinton. But the Democrats have their convention next week and will likely get very favorable coverage from the media, and thus a bounce in the polls for Clinton. The Green Party’s convention will happen the first week of August but will get limited coverage,” he said.

“Trump is a master manipulator of the media. Clinton has the machine. Stein has the values and the integrity the others lack, but less coverage. Moore says Trump’s going to win because he appeals to the racists in America. Not good enough and he should have learned by now to not make predictions,” he concluded. 

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