Reflections on life at “De Witte Wand”…
That was Donald Trump’s proud boast. Well, it certainly was amazing, but perhaps not in the way implied by Trump. This report on the convention by Eliot Weinberger makes for truly terrifying reading.
As the world lurches ever closer to the possibility of there being a President Trump, I ponder on how much the world has gone to hell in a handbasket in this year of our lord, 2016. I wonder whether we shall live to see the dawn of 2018.
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As I have voted for every Democratic Presidential candidate since Clinton, it should not surprise those who know me that I shall not vote for Trump. The same people who were unhinged at the prospect and then reality of a Black President seem to have really gone off the deep end at the prospect of a President without a Y chromosome.
Fortunately for us all, Trump’s poll numbers have been tanking ever since he attacked the parents of a soldier who died in a war started by George Bush. Tbus managing in a single extended gaffe to piss off every working class white who admires the military plus remind the Bernie Sanders crowd that Trump was nominated by the same party as the Bushes (both of whom stayed as far away from this Convention as possible). As one commentator noted, “explaining how much Trump’s tax plans would cost to low-information voters is a lot harder than saying He Dissed A Hero’s Parents.”
[…] realised. We seem to have sunk to a new low, and there ain’t no light at the end of the tunnel. As I said last August, I ponder on how much the world has gone to hell in a handbasket in this year of our lord, 2016. I […]
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