American Politics

Currently dribbling insanity.

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Trump: Come on in! The end of the world’s lovely at this time of year.

Sitting on the correct side of an argument afford you a special type of arrogance.  It blinds you, it’s almost as strong as a religious conviction.

How could a man like Trump be president? 

It doesn’t make any sense.

In September I was sitting in New York figuring out how to eat a sandwich the size of my head when I looked up and saw Hillary Clinton giving a speech. I’d managed to gnaw through half of it before giving up and coming to the realisation, Clinton is the antithesis of Donald Trump. The perfect candidate. Able to bring out the worst in one another. It was at that moment I realised Trump was incredibly likely to win.

How did you come to that conclusion?

US politics

American Politics: Trump and Clinton

An in-depth examination of the two heavyweight candidates.

Some say that America as a whole is going through something of an IQ test, but this is a completely unfair point. It’s far more nuanced then reducing the matter to a simple disparaging sentence. The anger and apathy of the American population towards the ‘ruling elite’ allows for such a vacuum in power.

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