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This morning I woke up to the news that the convicted felon and rapist Donald Trump has managed to persuade over 50% of American voters to elect him the 45th President of the United States of America.
Or, to put it another way – we’re all fucked.
Because this is not just about America. Not at all. This is about the most powerful country on the planet falling into the hands of an imbecile, a narcissist opportunist who doesn’t believe in democracy, or climate change, or any of the values that are the glue holding the world together. Only himself and his cronies.
We’re all in for a dark few years. Oh, Trump will only be around for four years. It’s the blink of an eye in many ways, but the damage that he can do in that time is incalculable. The only winners in this are the billionaires and dictators like Putin. The people who’re increasingly setting the agenda and paying the piper – only in the end the money will be taken from all of ordinary mortals, as it always is.
There’s fools in this country (like Farage) who’ll be cock-a-hoop at the news. The right-wingers and supposed nationalists who are dumb enough to believe Trump is someone the UKs ‘friend’ when the opposite is true. There’s going to be some very hard lessons being learned over the next four years.
I fear for Ukraine right now. Putin will be breaking open the champagne in the Kremlin. Trump was his investment, the best President his money could buy. The EU needs to get it’s act together now and realise that NATOs biggest member is about to become a sleeping partner. Europe can no longer rely on the US for its defense against Putin’s warmongering and expansion. I hate to say this, but Europe needs to re-arm because there’s a very real danger that if Putin wins in Ukraine, he won’t stop there – as he’s made clear. NATO (and that means us, the UK) could well be in a shooting war with Russia before Trump is gone.
But this isn’t just about America, or Europe. It’s about the whole planet.
Climate change is out of control. Politicians made a commitment to limit global warming to an increase of 1.5degrees. We’re nowhere near hitting that. The current projections are that by the end of the century temperatures will have increased by 3.1 degrees. Most people have no idea how disastrous that will be – for everyone living on this rock floating in space. No-one is going to be immune. With a climate-change denier in office for four more years the chances of getting on track are the worst kind of net zero, so go see places like the Maldives (or, ironically, places like Clacton) now, because they won’t be there when your grandchildren become grandparents.
The world has just become a very much darker and depressing place…
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What do you think the result of people like you demonising the left is? People are annoyed and looking for solutions but the left are demonised by the media and centrists. So who would you rather have, Corbyn or Farage?
What a ridiculous false choice that shows why no-one takes the hard-left seriously. The hard-left aren’t ‘demonised’ they’re irrelevant. You have absolutely no idea of how to appeal to people who aren’t people who’re already part of your cult. You never have – which is why you spend all your time insulting people rather than trying to get them on board. As for Corbyn, for the love of God, let him go and move on (but you never will). There is no ‘choice’ between Corbyn and Farage. The fact you people can’t even grasp that simple political reality says it all really.
So, the people of the USA have elected a “Strong Man”, just like those in the Arab Spring. To be fair, it’s fine if you agree with the Strong Man, but bad if you don’t, and they all believe they are on the side of the bully. A bit like Brexit, which meant whatever the person talking about it meant. Here though, if you aren’t 100% for Trump, you are against him, and there is no compromise.
Throughout history ‘strong men’ (and women) have led to political social and economic disaster because being strong isn’t what politics is all about. The world’s forgotten that lesson so, so many times. It’s even led to millions of deaths. I fear we’re back in that loop – again.
Yep. I’m drinking rum in Cuba and say bollocks to the US. I have no intention in setting foot there, which wouldn’t be easy because I have been to a terrorist state and therefore can’t get an ETSA or whatever the quick visa is called. No hurricanes where i am.