Politics - The US presidential election.

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With not too many days left until the election of the next president of the USA it is looking good for Biden to oust that moronic, narcissistic twat, Donald Trump - although, given the electoral college system, that cannot be counted on until all the state results are in. I have to say, however, that I’m not too bothered about which party wins. Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans are in the slightest way socialists - just both right wingers of slightly different complexions.
My concern is that Trump, the man, may again win. I find it difficult to understand how he won in 2016 (although he didn’t win the popular vote) - but I find it even more incredulous that there remains a sufficient number of Trump voters that might still see him triumph again. How any country can support such an evil, lying, moron is beyond me. That the country maybe doing so is the USA is even more worrying, given how much of a power house it still is.
I have to say that the US remains, in my view, one of the most insane and dangerous countries on the planet. From voting the likes of Trump into power, turning a blind eye to the police murder of black and coloured people, turning a blind eye to vast numbers of it’s population to living on the streets with next to no health care and happily allowing the easy sale of all sorts of firearms to it’s citizens when many able to do so are clearly insane, or at least unstable, only serves to convince me that the US is a country to both fear and avoid. If I had sufficient wealth to travel the World then the one country I would avoid would be the USA - and, given all the countries around the planet with evil and oppressive governments, that is saying something.
 

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