It is no longer about Clinton versus Trump. It is stop-Clinton versus stop-Trump.
It is more than a little sad that an election for the most influential position in the world is reduced to avoiding the one of two candidates you hate more.
It still amazes me that a country of some 325 million people can throw up no candidates not only no better than, but also as bad as, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. On the one hand we have a loud, lewd, crude, successful businessman, and on the other a sick, selfish, greedy, establishment politician.
After the latest negatives about both candidates it seems to me that this election will be decided by the mobilisation of voters against rather than voters for.
You get what you vote for and a fundamental weakness in any democracy is that the ability to capture votes (or more accurately, in this case, to repel voters) says little about any other abilities.
With either of these two candidates the US position in global affairs has a bleak 4 years ahead. Trump will withdraw while Clinton will appease. In both cases Russia wins. In domestic matters, Trump will alienate minorities and Clinton will appease. In both cases racial tensions will increase. In economic matters, Trump will use “trickle-down” and Clinton will increase public debt. In both cases, wealth production will decrease.
This is not a choice I would like to be stuck with.
Tags: Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton
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