American Politics the 2016 edition

It is one day to go before we decide the on the election to end all elections, so let’s review where we are.  

Let’s start with Donald Trump. How this hate mongering and divisive fact free liar got this far is the stuff that thousands of books can and should be written about.

I’m going to state the obvious, in case any missed it, and that is this type of political scapegoating has not been seen or heard since the Nazi rallies of the twenties and thirties. Hitler was actually elected before burning down the Reichstag, which led to assuring his place as the dictator Furher, and making good on his promises to make Germany great again and almost wipeout all the enemies of the state before his lunacy was stopped. The general public mostly had no problem with his policies as long as they worked and prospered. If you think this a case of apples and oranges, get honest with yourself and think again.

Now let’s turn to Hilary Clinton. So much a part of the establishment that she was given a sound run for her money by a Jewish ultra leftwing socialist politician (!) in the form of Bernie Sanders before the Democratic Party’s machine did its job of securing her nomination as the Democratic nominee. This is another head scratcher that thousands of books should be written about as, in the same way as Trump’s nomination, points to a deeper fundamental problem with the American democratic system along with the plight of the American citizens themselves. This is a system that is deeply flawed and almost broken and it’s time to fix it.

But let’s not let Misses Clinton off the hook that easily. She is so well entranced in the Washington machine that she too felt privileged to use her own private server for classified emails and wipe 33,000 emails from existence before the FBI investigation. That FBI director James Comey reopened the email investigation with dubious intent is, I’m sorry to say, beside the point. She acted like all privileged US politicians and made her own rules of conduct, and that allowed Comey to pounce on her again. Is she on the scale of Richard Nixon? No, but where does she stop at in the future?

Now we have both Trump and Clinton, along with their surrogates, barnstorming the Battle Ground States. Trump in an effort to push the country folks to vote for him while Clinton’s effort is to make sure that her supporters get off their bums and actually vote for her.

There is little enthusiasm when your choice is picking Misses Dishrag over Mister Do*chebag (the two least popular Presidential candidates in history), but that’s the reality of the situation. May God, or some other imaginary being, help us because we seem to be all out of luck this time around.