Every day and in every way, I so wish that Bernie Sanders was the Democrats’ candidate for the White House. Of course, I’d vote for Hillary Clinton for president if I was stuck with a simple choice between her and Donald Trump, but I’d do so because she was the least worst of the two candidates.
In terms of policy, it’s Clinton by a country mile. There’s not even a debate to be had about it. Trump is the nastiest candidate to ever run for president, even in America, but no one is seriously suggesting that Clinton isn’t anything other than a political robot, part of a larger establishment machine, devoid of any real passion for anything other than power.
Sure Bernie Sanders had his flaws but he was no Jeremy Corbyn. He spoke the language of left behind America, spoke of hope and opportunity for all, stood against the establishment, is a fine orator. If anything, he was stopped by the system that decrees that politicians who don’t look the part have no chance. Clinton is the product of the establishment, Trump is the product of the basket case the GOP has become.
I have no idea if there is anything in the e-mail allegations that have mysteriously re-emerged just weeks before polling begins. I am not, by nature, a conspiracy theorist although I can believe that conspiracies are more likely to exist in the United States than pretty anywhere else on earth. My late father, no conspiracy theorist himself, always made it clear to me where the balance of power lay in what was for him south of the border. In no particular order, Exxon, the CIA and the Mob. This is not to say that the president was some peripheral figure who merely nodded through the policies of others, someone like our dear Queen for example, and had no power at all, but he – and it’s always been a “he” to date – was not at the top of the food chain.
Quite how the land of the free could come up with two candidates as bad as Clinton and Trump defies common sense and logic. In a country of some 300 million people, there had to be someone more substantial? Perhaps we have been rather spooled by eight years of my favourite president ever, Barack Obama, someone I wonder if we could pay a transfer fee and get him to be our prime minister, maybe for life?
One thing is for sure, though. The FBI disclosure, if that’s what it is, re-opens the door for Donald Trump to become leader of the free world. These are dark days for the USA, but potentially even darker days for the rest of the world.
