An Englishman Wants To Know Why There Is A Donald Trump, Presidential Candidate
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Donald Trump is a poor business man. He is extremely wealthy and has several businesses under his control. He claims to be a successful businessman but, clearly, he is anything other than successful. Had Donald Trump merely put the money he inherited from his father into a simple savings account at the time of inheritance he would now be more wealthy than he is.
This is simply due to the fact that he is actually a lousy business man and has lost a huge amount of money on many of his business ventures. He remains wealthy primarily due to the vast fortune he inherited and, up to now, has failed to waste in it’s entirety.
He may have well also avoided a huge amount of taxation but that, to date, is suspected rather than proven but, even leaving that side out of the equation alone he would still be significantly wealthier if he had avoided business altogether, put his inherited fortune into a basic savings account, sat on his ass and done precisely nothing at all.
So, having established that Trump is actually a useless business man and, given that business is his only occupation – (by the way, if you doubt any of the above by all means Google it and you will see that a simple basic savings account with minimal interest would have resulted in his fortune being greater had he avoided doing anything at all) – how the hell is Trump currently a potential President of the USA?
Simple.
He isn’t a politician.
That is, I believe, indisputable.
Increasingly in western democracies we are tiring of our politicians. This is a very bad thing as, ultimately, our very democracies are threatened by our boredom and suspicions and, frankly, lethargy regarding our politicians and, indeed, our democratic politics in general.
The ‘pollsters’ who traditionally have predicted with at least some semblance of accuracy the outcome in political elections have, for some time, been baffled and bewildered.
Britain was absolutely definitely heading for another hung parliament at the last general election. The polls said so.
Oops. The Conservatives won outright.
Britain would vote to remain in the European Union by a small but significant margin.
Oops. Britain voted to leave.
Now, to transfer this unexpected behaviour – unexpected by the pollsters anyway – to America.
It is certainly likely that Clinton will ultimately win the Presidential race – well, the sane amongst us hope so anyway. She isn’t popular by any means but, fortunately for her, she has a misogynist megalomaniac xenophobe against her so surely she can’t lose can she?
Well, yes she can. Hopefully she won’t but, it has to be said, yes she can.
Why?
Trump is many things. Misogynist megalomaniac xenophobe are merely three but don’t for one moment believe that those three things will count him out.
Regardless of the unsavoury things Trump is or may be one thing he isn’t is a politician.
Increasingly we in western democracies are fed up to the back teeth with politicians. They lie and cheat and promise in the full knowledge that said promises will be broken and then try to pretend they didn’t quite promise and so on and on and on and on and, we’ve had enough of it.
We want something different and it is entirely the fault of our politicians that we do.
Yes, they do indeed cheat and lie but some of them don’t. The problem is we have failed see history repeating itself as it invariably does time and time again. We have failed to see that regardless of their imperfections and ability to twist the facts for their own ends our politicians defend our democracies, sometimes despite their failings and foibles and even, their corruption.
Clinton is almost certainly corrupt but she is a western democratic politician. Undesirable in so many ways she is clearly infinitely more desirable than Trump and yet, there is a real danger that, regardless of what the polls say, Trump could still ultimately be President.
Slightly bizarrely Trump exists in his current ‘I want to be President’ personna quite simply because Clinton and career politicians exist and, increasingly, we have had it with them.
Many quite respectable Americans hold genuine and reasonable concerns regarding immigration for example. The ‘mainstream’ politicians are not seen – rightly or wrongly – to be addressing these concerns and along comes Trump insisting that all Mexicans are rapists and all Muslims should be banned from entering the USA.
Absolute hogwash of course but no other politicians seem to be acknowledging the concerns of these otherwise sane and sensible Americans so they latch onto the lunatic as at least he’s saying something. It might be utter drivel but it’s the nearest thing they have to an acknowledgement of their concerns.
You might think or say I am wrong but I know I am right.
Why?
Come on people. Sniff the coffee.
Trump has said so many outlandish things, not to mention so many disgusting things, that if I am wrong then a significant number of Americans have clearly taken leave of their senses.
Trump has admitted sexually assaulting women. He has admitted this in a recently discovered and broadcast interview. He then went onto apologise and say “This isn’t really me” and, somehow, his supporters went along with it.
The man is, frankly, a danger to the entire world in that, technically at least, he could be the next President.
Our politicians, with whom we are fed up and rightly so, are to blame for the existence of Trump but, ultimately, we will be to blame. Yes, Americans will be to blame if he is elected but, western democracies as a whole will be or, rather, the electorates of said democracies.
We are quite right to be fed up with our Clinton’s and Merkel’s and Blair’s and Bushes and Camerons and we do indeed need to have some kind of quiet revolution that actually brings our democratic systems to heel – or rather bring our politicians to heel.
Far too many of them forget that it is a government of the people for the people but allowing fringe elements to be our solution is clearly dangerous as it was in Germany in the 30’s.
Slagging off and denigrating Trump will achieve precisely nothing.
Trump and similes of Trump will continue to emerge and thrive until we, the people, take back our democracies but, in so doing, allow the Clinton’s and so forth to remain. They are imperfect as are we but reducing their imperfections and ensuring that they represent us and not their own careers is the only safe and sane solution.
If we fail to achieve this – and, I admit, I have no idea how we can – then Trump is only the beginning and, ultimately, western democracy is indeed doomed.
Right. Let’s crack on then shall we? Any ideas?
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Um, no it’s not suspect he didn’t pay taxes. His taxes showed he din’t pay them so it’s known he didn’t pay. At least the snippets we were all allowed to see. We have less than a month left and a candidate for the highest office in the land has refused to release his taxes. How does that bode going forward. Can I just say, I am so sick of hearing and seeing the bullshit that Hillary is only winning because she has such a bad candidate to go against.
No, she is winning because she has better policies and has beat Hair Furor like a drum with preparation and a life long sting in public service. No one on the GoOper side of the aisle could stop him and those were the “brain trust” on that side. She is winning because she is a serious candidate and yeah she just happens to be a woman. Also too, reading and putting it out there on the internets she is corrupt, does not make it so. This woman has had to do double the fuckiin work to be considered half as good as any man and she’s called a bitch, corrupt, lesbian like that last one is a bad thing.
Look at what she wants to get done. She has not shied away from some of what we call wedge issues here, in fact it’s the opposite she is embracing her liberal side when it comes down to abortion, women’s rights and the LGBT community. It’s the most progressive platform that has come up in decades.
In summary, bitches will get shit done.
signed a bitch of a nasty woman who voted for Hillz.
If I was American I would be voting for her too you know….
The problem that exists is the disenfranchised who tar Clinton with the ‘establishment’ brush as clearly she is establishment – not necessarily a bad thing – and they’ve had enough of establishment politicians.
As a result they are swooped upon by people and parties who would have been ‘fringe’ and therefore relatively harmless years ago.
You’re cool Jess as you support Clinton for logical and sensible reasons.
It’s the people who feel disenfranchised and are now, all over the west, being won over by extreme people and parties this article is addressing.
As for corrupt….well, cynical old me finds it hard to believe anyone in politics isn’t to some extent 😉