Circa 2007 someone said to me the USA & its elections are about legitimizing selected individuals for government, through votes by the People; it is about democracy, but much more about “dollar-cracy”. I now have to agree, and Trump as rich as he is, is not immune.
As a rule, and most definitely, Politicians (Trump too) are deceptive, obviously.
The USA, and others in that general domain, have been led on a false path for a very long time - intense marketing - same messages are hammered in repeatedly.
The western media, especially in the U.S. is hellbent on a controlled and specific path to continuously shape public thought - it is worse than any communist or socialist regime was during the Cold War. Yet socially we have ‘freedoms’ that those communist/socialist regimes didn’t have.
The entire people-mindset has been so very convoluted over the past 15 years in particular, by the Politicians and their media - yet the media isn’t ‘state-owned’ per se — it is all about shares and profit (capitalism).
I won’t be voting for anyone.
I find it distressing so many here are willing to toss those basic Constitutional tenets out the window to support a particular candidate of questionable philosophy because he has catchy slogans (not that again!), but even more upsetting is the lengths to which those same people will go to demean Cruz. No distortion of events is too great, no twist of phrase is out of bounds, and the mentality is less thoughtful than a mob of British Soccer fans drunk as Lords.
There was a time when I thought it an anomaly that people were hanged by mistake, but it seems ingrained in the American Character to do so far more deeply than I had imagined.
This very website was once the place to find thoughtful and well-researched discourse.
now it reads like a twitter feed from a tabloid.