On the verge of a dangerous Clinton presidency

If national polling is to be believed, then Hillary Clinton is poised to become our next president. Granted, the Business Investors' poll -- which has been extremely accurate the last three elections -- gives an edge to Donald Trump by a slim 2 percent.

But that outlier poll aside, it appears likely the movement of Trump has peaked with precious little time to reverse course.

Diehards still cling to the remote hope that yet another October surprise is in the cards for the Clinton camp. But the calendar and the momentum seem to favor Clinton.

Recognizing the trend, the president went on the stump this past weekend. He was trying to generate support not for Clinton but for Democrat senatorial candidates, since it appears the Dems are within striking distance of regaining the Senate majority.

Liberal optimists even opine that the House, too, is in play, though I have my doubts.

Given all of this, how is it that we are potentially about to elect a president who is not trusted by an overwhelming majority of Americans?

We stand on the verge of electing a president who has a long and undisputed reputation of misrepresenting the truth, a president who has a dubious history of enriching herself and her family through less than transparent means, and a president who holds views on immigration, for example, not embraced by a majority of Americans?

The blame falls squarely on the shoulders of Republicans who allowed a rabid base of supporters to hijack the primary process and offer yet another highly flawed candidate chocked full of bluster and little else.

If the best the GOP can offer is John McCain, Mitt Romney and Donald Trump, then what you get is more Barack Obama and now his shadow Hillary Clinton.

There remains an outside chance that the polls are wrong and, like the Brexit vote in Britain, the outcome will shock most observers.

Even the highly partisan New York Times this weekend wrote on the dangers of a Hillary Clinton presidency.

The Times said with a Clinton presidency, "They're the dangers of elite groupthink, of Beltway power worship, of a culture of presidential actions in the service of dubious ideals."

In other words, if the Clinton Corporation believes in something, they think they know so much better than we lower people and they will push relentlessly to reach their misguided goals.

All is not lost but that proverbial large lady is preparing to sing.

But what will remain come Nov. 9 is a large segment of the American public uncomfortable with our direction. What will remain is a large segment of Americans who oppose opening borders, who oppose an expanding federal government and who oppose leveling the playing field by taking from producers and giving to non-producers.

Yet that is exactly what lies on the horizon but for a dramatic shift in a narrow time frame against a well-oiled Democratic machine hellbent on force feeding us down the road to socialism.

Michael Jensen is the publisher of the Sikeston Standard Democrat.