Clinton's election could push US towards popular revolution: Analyst

The US presidential election is down to the wire. On the final day of the campaigning, the Republican and Democratic candidates tried hard to win over  those American voters still undecided about who might best suit their ideals. One of the most striking elements of both campaigns has been the candidates' consistent unpopularity. We have talked to two analysts and asked them to share with us their views about the candidates and their campaigns.

“Hillary Clinton is in a desperate situation because so many of the American people know her from the 1990s and all the bloodshed she caused and the attacks of Waco, Texas, and the FBI and so many of the scandals that Bill Clinton was involved with,” said Scott Bennett, a political commentator and a former US Army officer, on Press TV’s 'The Debate' on Monday night.

“And of course we see that the leopard doesn't change its spots. Hillary Clinton has been selling technology and weapons to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Morocco, [and] all of the [Persian] Gulf nations and taking bribes from them and using the Clinton Foundation, the money laundering mechanism,” he added.

Bennett further noted that Clinton’s idea of using "the lame duck" President Barack Obama in her campaign is doomed to failure because, in his opinion, people no more trust his promises.

Bennett argued that Clinton is desperate to bring as many Democrats onto her side as possible, but it could be an enormous blowback because no one likes or trusts President Obama due to his past eight years of socialism and stagnation which has ruined the country.

“That's the reason people are inclining towards Donald Trump, because he's got the economic entrepreneurial background to create jobs and generate money and wealth. That's why African Americans, in particular, are flocking to Donald Trump because he's promising them simple wealth and jobs and being able to live without government welfare,” Bennett underscored.

"Donald Trump is going to pull us back from war, pull us back from the precipice of the abyss. Hillary Clinton is going to accelerate the war. She's going to expand military action against Russia, Iran, Syria, and China and she's going to do that to distract people away from her domestic policy chaos."

"So, this country is ready for either a renaissance or a revolution depending on which candidate wins the elections," he noted, adding that if it is Hillary, there is going to be a revolution in the US, and if it is Trump, it will be a renaissance of American virtues and values.

However, the other panelist on the show, journalist and political commentator, Paul Street, had a different argument. He said that in his view Barack Obama is a fairly popular lame duck president and that is why Hillary insists to have Obama on her campaign trail.

“She desperately needs a huge minority turnout. The notion that blacks or any other minority group are flocking to Donald Trump is just a bald-faced absurdity. It is not even remotely true. I mean well over ninety percent of the black votes going to Obama. The main fear that Hillary has about that is that the turnout won't be as high for her as it was for Obama’s. Hence, that is the significance of having Obama on the trail,” Street argued.

He predicted that even though big corporations and most of the military establishment are firmly behind Clinton and all the national demographics and polls are pointing at her, a very large middle- and working-class turnout, combined with a relatively low minority turnout, could cause trouble for her.

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