My preference for the primaries is for Trump to beat Cruz, and Sanders to beat Clinton.
Then for the national election, any non Trump to Trump Trump. Not important who the non-Trump is, could be H Ross Perot, Ralph Nader, Bloomberg for all I care. Even if you gave a sex change and made H Rose Perot, rebuilt Nader into a cyborg and called him Vader, and took away 20 points of IQ from Bloomberg they would still be better than Trump.
The most important thing for US voters, as well as the planet, is to stop this nasty business as usual nonsense. US democracy is severely corrupted by big business and entrenched interests now, and pretty much all establishment people are ensnared. Even the NY Times has found that Ordinary Americans have no more influence on government policy than Ordinary Russians. You need a breath of fresh air, and you need non establishment candidates to make a good showing and send a powerful message.
A Chief Executive who owes nothing to big banks (unlike Obama, who was mostly elected on Big Bank funds) is necessary.
On the Repub side, only Trump has a reasonable chance of forging an independent, principled policy not tied to Big Interests and the other forces corrupting US democracy. Most of you guys are probably laughing when I say Trump might be principled. It just means Trump is less in hock to special interests and undemocratic forces than the professional long time Republicans. Trump just happens to be more principled compared to the Bush Family or Ted Cruz.
If the Republican party is to be saved and actually offer a political alternative to the Dems, they need Trump. Everybody else is a tool of some less democratic faction such as Cruz’s Crusaders.
And for the Dems, they’re straightforward a party of right wing business interests who just happen to be racially and culturally inclusive. Being Multicultural is a joke, because most Big Banks can also field a slate of colored faces and ethnic costumes from their employee rolls – but these people don’t represent anyone but the 1-percenters anywhere on the globe.
The politically correct language that Democrats like to employ insult my intelligence as much as the religious rhetoric of the Repubs. What do they not understand about the Rule of Law? Why should citizenship be granted to every Tomas, m’Dik and Hari just because these people have successfully snuck across the border? I broke into your house successfully, so now I am a legit resident?
Sanders is no socialist the way the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was socialist. Bernie Sanders is center/center right by European standards. The mainstream press in the USA just calls him socialist, because the better known Hillary Clinton is economically right wing so the positions that Bernie Sanders has staked out look pretty extreme left in comparison. I personally see him as better for most of the 99%.
Racist/ religious right wing Elephants vs non racist, politically correct right wing Donkeys, Donkeys look better to most people. But actually you’re just electing an ass to lord it over you. It’s still Goldman Sachs’ ass.
The biggest realistic danger that I see to the USA now, is a Marc Rubio nomination win after a tough fight, and a Clinton win after a tough fight. Both will be politically bruised. To win the presidential, they would have to call in lots of favors, raise funds, and basically do the same things that led to US politicians being in hock to private donors and undemocratic interests.
In the Presidential election, a Clinton Win will definitely be Business As Usual, with rising income inequality and the prospect of the white Middle Class weakening even further and less social consensus in future. Expect more racialized Republican demagoguery in future.
A Rubio win might be unpleasant to anyone not already a fervent Christian in the USA. Depending on how much he had to pander to the religious to gain votes from Cruz. The ‘good’ thing for most Americans, though, is that at least Rubio is less principled than Clinton. He’ll do whatever it takes, so he probably won’t kiss ass the religious right after they put him in power. He'd just kiss the asses of whoever is offering him some new temporary advantage.
