The Future President, Donald Trump

In the days ahead, some may dismiss Trump as more of an opportunist than a considered racist, a politician desperate to help his poll numbers in the final weeks before the Iowa caucuses. But the harder question is more awkward to ask: What does it say about all of us, as Americans, that he has made it so far? Trump is adept at dividing the world into “us” and “them,” because he knows that audiences find it comforting. But to pretend that we have not allowed his spirit to fester is to grant ourselves a measure of relief that we do not deserve.

...if we dont pick Trump.

You're still under some illusion that voting matters.

Oligarchy. Elections are window dressing.

Nonsense

"The central point that emerges from our research is that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on US government policy, while mass-based interest groups and average citizens have little or no independent influence,” says the peer-reviewed study.

The 42-page study analyzes U.S. politics through the framework of four major theoretical traditions -- Majoritarian Electoral Democracy, Economic Elite Domination, Majoritarian Pluralism and Biased Pluralism -- concluding that U.S. political policies rarely align with the majority of citizens.

"We're gonna have to figure it out, we can't live like this. It's going to get worse and worse, we're going to have more World Trade Centers. It's going to get worse and worse, folks. We can be politically correct and we can be stupid but it's going to be worse and worse," Trump added.

Let us once again be the nation that can correctly carry out a risk assessment,

Australians are irrelevant.

Quote:

Australians are irrelevant.

Not while the ANZUS treaty stands. Educate yourself, cookie.

this is none of your business.

The Huffington Post’s decision to relegate Trump to its entertainment section was before he rose to front-runner status, holding on to it since the summer and defying the conventional wisdom that prospective Republican voters would give him only a fleeting glimpse.

Huffington wrote, “Yes, there was certainly no shortage of ugly comments from the beginning, as he kicked off his campaign with outrageous comments about Mexicans. But at first, this over-the-top xenophobia, though disgusting, played as the sour shtick of a washed-up insult comic. Now that Trump, aided by the media, has doubled down on the cruelty and know-nothingness that defined his campaign’s early days, the ‘can you believe he said that?’ novelty has curdled and congealed into something repellent and threatening — laying bare a disturbing aspect of American politics. We believe that the way we cover the campaign should reflect this shift

She continued, “If Trump’s words and actions are racist, we’ll call them racist. If they’re sexist, we’ll call them sexist. We won’t shrink from the truth or be distracted by the showmanship.”