I know the British wanted to leave the EU because of its perceived authoritarian bureaucracy, they should be really terrified of what they have let loose in this fortress Britain bubble mentality. Now they have their own home grown totalitarians.
Now I have had a chance to think about this last election cycle and putting to one side the personalities for the time being.
Premise
Republican Party Partisans
Decided that their establishment did not give two figs about them and went for something that has been coming for a long time now, an authoritarian demagogue.
I will be writing no more there, so I bolded some lines that seem still pertinent.
An Ugly and Dangerous Speech
By LaFeminista
Friday Jul 22, 2016 · 8:41 AM GMT
135 Comments (69 New)
87Some have called it a fact-less speech, that is not strictly true either:
Clinton in Democratic Party minds is the popular President and even if she is not the actual President it was because of a hard fought primary that she is not, i.e. it's all Bernie Sanders fault.
I am sorry partisans but to my mind:
Running around screaming at the horror of a President Trump!
Running around screaming about the popular vote and how in fact Hillary won!
Results of 2016
Hillary Clinton 59,814,018 - 47.66%
Donald Trump 59,611, 678 - 47.50%
Those that obviously don't count in their calculations
Gary Johnson 4,058,500
Jill Stein 1,213,103
Other 802,119
Total votes cast [as of today] 125,499,418
Dear Democrats
You told us this was "her time" and if we disagreed we could get lost.
You called us misogynists and racists and showed us the door.
You drove us away, wilfully; with joy even, locked away in your little bubble of beltway bullshit.
We told you she was the weakest candidate that you could have put forward.
We warned you that she was intensely disliked.
We warned you that the elite were despised.
How many don't vote.
How many vote "other".
This election has been:
Said by Le Monde Diplomatique under the title [please read the whole piece it is excellent, accurate and well written]
by Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/11/boycotting-presidential...
The start
Why would anyone want to vote in this toxic and ignominious US presidential election?
