“I have this feeling that whoever is elected president, like Clinton was, no matter what you promise on the campaign trail – blah, blah, blah – when you win, you go into this smoke-filled room with the twelve industrialist capitalist scum-fucks who got you in there. And you’re in this smoky room, and this little film screen comes down, and a big guy with a cigar goes, ‘Roll the film.’ And it’s a shot of the Kennedy assassination from an angle you’ve never seen before, that looks suspiciously like it’s from the grassy knoll. And then the screen goes up and the lights come up, and they go to the new president, ‘Any questions?’” – Bill Hicks
The sociopathic billionaire robber barons who rule the world are no more resistant to hydrogen bombs than the rest of us and have a vested interest in seeing that the world continue to exist. Personally, I think that’s why they had Kennedy assassinated; his handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis alarmed them enough that they needed to replace him with someone considerably less likely to destroy the world over ideology.
It no longer matters who is elected to high office. Having been involved for most of my adult life in municipal politics, I can tell you from personal experience that even at the level of city school board trustee and dog catcher the corruption and completely cynical acceptance thereof by everyone involved is almost universal. At higher levels of governance, where decisions actually have a practical effect on the lives of the ruling clade of billionaires, the cancer is the host; there’s no healthy tissue at all. Frankly, I doubt there ever really was. Whether Trump or Clinton (or Sanders or Jeb! or anyone else for that matter) is elected, you may get differences on the surface for display purposes, but underneath it’s the same neo-liberal engine of oppression.
If you have any doubts, just look at Arizona. They made a big deal about cracking down on undocumented residents… until the business lobby howled that they were losing money, at which point everything went back quietly to the status quo. In Arizona you have actual no-fooling-around fascists like Joe Arpaio, and they still couldn’t make Tea Party lunacy stick. Don’t worry, a Trump presidency would be business as usual with an occasional bone thrown to the howling baskets of deplorables to keep them from peeing on the carpet.