The ultra right GOP has now become more like populist right, similar to the Front National in France, UKIP in Great Britain ad Forza Italia.
There's no socialist party, no social democrats (except Bernie Sanders), and no left-wing radicals. Maybe they exist, but they are very marginalized (like Gary Johnson and Jill Stein).
This year the election is very discouraging. Two elderly people yelling at each other. I hope the younger American generations will come up with something better in the future.
It's scary that Donald Trump may actually become the President of USA. He appears to be totally incompetent for the job. He hasn't even admitted to respect the election result, unless he wins. I hope it was a joke. But this reminds me of certain leaders from the history books, the kind of leaders we wouldn't like to come back.
Just imagine a world ruled by Trump and Putin. Sounds surreal, like a crazy joke, but holy shit, it may become true.
Hillary Clinton is maybe not the best candidate either (Bernie was my favorite). There's too much shady business going on, in the Clinton Foundation and with her Wall Street buddies. It reminds me of the quote by Otto von Bismarck: "No one should see how politics and sausages are made".
Hilary Clinton is at least competent for the job, very competent. Maybe she doesn't know much about mail servers, but she knows how to deal with the political systems around the world. That's more important for a president.
(Cartoon from the internet, made by Rob Rogers, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette )
it annoys me how much the US election dominates our mediascape - i think it is just easy journalism for our media outlets to fill air/print space as all the hard work has already been done up there and then it is just beamed here - that said i can't help but feel like something is badly wrong if trump and clinton are the two best candidates on offer - where's the hope and inspiration??
ReplyDeleteI think part of the problem was that there were no really good candidates. Pity that Bernie Sanders didn't make it.
DeleteCIA - yes, I agree and that's why I supported Hillary, of the two candidates she was at least competent and an experienced politician. Her concession speech showed just how dignified she is. The thought of Trump as a world leader horrifies me (I should be used to it though, Zuma and Trump are peas in a pod as leaders!) If Hillary had Bernie as her vice president I wonder how different the race would have been? But all the speculating in the owrld can't change the depressing, scary (no, terrifying) fact that Trump won. I can't help wondering if 9/11 was the response to Bush being elected over Gore - what will happen now? We can only hope that the GOP political checks and balances are enough to rein Trump's meglomania in.
ReplyDeleteAmong the two candidates, Hillary Clinton would been the obvious choice for me too. Trump as a president is quite scary. Maybe Hillary did a mistake in her choice of vice president. Maybe Bernie Sanders would have made the difference.
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