I realized that those not living in the USA are in two camps.
(1) Those that do not give a tinker's cuss about it or anything else for the matter (if this applies to you, stop reading at once,leave this posting and open another beer.
or
(2) Those that care about the future and the legacy we leave our children and grandchildren(if this applies to you, please read on.
I have taken the liberty of "borrowing" from the late great much lamented Alistair Cook's format "Letter from America".
Dear fellow English people,
There are two candidates for the office of "President" of the United States of America. The winner will in fact, chart the course and profoundly affect the direction of the Western World and the relationships we have with the Middle East and China.
(A) Donald Trump.
His political campaign seems to have taken a page out of Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf". His denigration of immigrants (ironic because this nation is founded on immigrants) echoes Hitler's attacks on Jews and Slavs. Donald states that immigrants bring crime, drugs and disease. He conveniently forgets that we always have had those, but have chosen to turn a blind eye to this problem. he will build a wall between America and the Mexicans, and have the Mexicans pay for this wall. Oh well Donald, good luck with that one. Donald will also give tax breaks to the rich so they create more jobs. Well we all know how well that works don't we? He will make the government profitable, based on his business model.
Donald... since when is the government a business? If you are making a profit, you are certainly screwing the workers because they are paying the brunt of the taxes, not the rich for you already have cut their taxes. Oh well.
Donald's policies seem to be not only xenophobic, but add mysogonist and homophobic to the toxic mix.
Donald has no plan to curb global warming, and in fact will encourage dirty fuel production in his plan to create jobs.
On the international front, suffice to say that Vladimir Putin is Donald's foremost admirer, and thinks that the Chinese are his best friends! He will somehow eradicate Isis and take their oil! What a wonderful foreign policy. I would advise that the people in England dust off their WWII tin helmets and start digging their Anderson shelters. Don't bother with your allotments because they will be radioactive. He intends to abandon NATO and leave Europe including England to fend for themselves! Phew ! Putin must be slavering over the prospect.
(B) Hilary Clinton
She is not a Barak Obama clone in female clothing.
That being said, Hilary has a lot of dirt sticking to her. She has accepted monetary contributions from (a) The drug and medical industry (b) The banking industry (c)Wall street and the investing robber barons. So one can safely say she has to repay in one form or another. I would state we the ordinary mass of the great unwashed would once again bear the brunt of the financial burdens. She has promised some reform in the educational fields as well as the health care system, yet specifics are very hazy. Her strenght lies in foreign policy, and that is a policy that is not based upon the finger on the nuclear war button at a moment's notice. It is unclear as to her relationship with Europe and England, but I think it is rather lukewarm. She thinks that Putin is the next Attila the Hun, hell bent on becoming the Czar of Europe and he has to be stopped.
There was another candidate Bernie Sanders, a champion of the common people, but he no longer is in the running. Hilary nudged him out.
So gentlemen, those that have kept with me, that in a nutshell is where the USA and the western world stands. I am sure that I have missed many minor and some major aspects out, and if offensive, I apologize for this was not meant to be offensive.
Regards to all
Phred
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