Of course, anyone who thought that the Americans would NOT bring back to power, a guy who had proved himself to be such a clown, now knows better. In a dangerous world filled with bullies of Putin’s type, to give power back to a guy who openly states that he wants to have the sort of “generals Hitler had”?
The American electorate heard him all right. But despite the many lives that were among the heavy losses the US incurred fighting Hitler in World War II, they nevertheless brushed Trump’s sub-conscious wishes aside and re-elected him! Amazing.
Well, the Americans will only have themselves to blame if Trump Mark Two becomes the disaster that is waiting to happen. If that disaster does materialise, however, Trump will not be the only person to blame.
I think Joe Biden did the US political system a great deal of harm, by not recognising that he was “past it”, not only in terms of age but in such serious aspects of modern, media-ruled politics as being able to stay alert at all times and to remember things of a complex nature.
But if Biden made a mistake by hanging on for far too long, Kamala Harris was unbelievably obtuse. You just don’t go into politics and dally with such high functions as those of Vice-President and remain as diffident as she proved to be. The position of Vice President of the USA is a most treacherous double-headed knife which must be thrown with the greatest skill so that it can hurt without showing who threw it!
President L B Johnson, for instance, hated the Kennedy clan for he knew they despised him as a moribund stiff-necked racist from the South of the USA who couldn’t give a toss for the glamorous liberalism with which the Kennedys wanted to woo the world for the US. But LBJ learnt how to make the Kennedy clan fear him as a man who was “better inside the tent, pissing out, than outside, pissing in!”
So much knife-throwing was carried out in the two camps that LBJ was even suspected of knowing “something” about the assassination of JFK in 1963. Kamala Harris didn’t have the political guile that would have enabled her to be denouncing Biden behind the scenes, whilst ‘kowtowing’ to him in public. Not only that; she seems to exhibit a placid personality that is so unadventurous that she couldn’t even naturally display to her fellow non-whites, the hidden anger that should have been bubbling inside her as she saw the vivid pictures on TV of the slaughter of Arabs that was being carried out 24/7 by Israel in Gaza and Lebanon, partly with arms supplied by a US Government, in which she was supposed to be the Number Two person. What was she in that Government for? To show off her gender and skin colour?
What did she think as the US Secretary of State made dozens of journeys going to Israel, to plead for a more humanitarian approach to the Gaza war, without so much as scratching the surface of Netanyahu’s sensibilities (assuming he had any)?
Did she really think that organisations like the Nation of Islam would sit down unconcerned and watch their members go and vote for a Democratic Party ticket that, to them, was collaborating with the slaughter of Arabs? If any country went to do a “turkey shoot” in Israel, would the Jewish community in the US vote for any party that supported such a slaughter either directly or in secret?
Kamala apparently has had a lot to learn about race and politics in the US. I think she had better go home and take off her political boots! Trump knew what the American electorate wanted and gave it to them. Yes the US doesn’t want any more “immigrant garbage” (as Trump diagnosed what seems to be white America’s major socio-political head-ache.
Poor Kamala, on the other hand, couldn’t identify her greatest potential social weapon.
Poor old thing.
By CAMERON DUODU