Monday 31 October 2016

Can I change my mind please

With only a few days to go before the the US Election the revelation from the FBI that there are more damaging emails sent from Hillary Clintons smart phone when she was Secretary of State, has startled the world.
What ever the actual content, the voting public are skittish towards both contestants and it wouldn't take much to frighten the horses.
Virtually every candidate who has lined up in the past for the Presidents job has some sort of skeleton in their cupboard. From Abraham Lincoln to Kennedy, from Reagan to Bush and of course Hillary's husband was almost thrown out of the job.
Powerful people are used to getting their own way, even using questionable methods to ensure it. Power corrupts and so we should begin to assume that the politician who has risen to the top of the pile has enough skeletons to fill a graveyard.
Would the Trump presidency be so bad. Would Hillary's presidency be anything other than the same old same old. Would she go for the status quo, would she be an appeaser towards so much of what we have become to know as the American Establishment.
The Global experiment, which was a contributor to the Banking crisis and itself revealed the paucity and un-sustainability of the American financial empire, was I'm sure a regular breakfast conversation between Hillary and Bill when Bill was President.

Trump in his "inward vision" for America is a massive swing in the psychology of a country that wished to put its imprint on the 🌎.  The country has had to keep recycling the dollar and in the process print billion to pump prime the Global economy and keep the deficit economy on track.
Trump has no baggage other than that he is successful in making money. To make the kind of money he has in Real Estate, means that he knows how to use the teams of experts needed to build and revamp his buildings. He knows how to coordinate and drive people and you can't beat his vision, even within a narrow prospectus of glitzy hotels.
Historically when Ronald Reagan was chosen he was chosen on his personality. As an actor in B grade films his lineage was hardly the stuff of Presidents and yet he is remembered for the simplicity of purpose and the clarity of of his agenda to defeat the USSR in the Cold War. He certainly was not proposed for the job because of his knowledge of the minuta of internecine politics. He was not an insider like Hillary, he was not a wheeler dealer within the system which is her claim to fame. I was not a supporter of his conservative rhetoric (along side Margaret Thatcher) but like Churchill he was the man for the moment.
Hillary seems to me to have a very grey image of what we need to lead the free (sic) world.
It seems with the passage of time, under the spotlight of the media debate, she seems to be "dodgy", but then perhaps they all are.


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