Here it is, folks, the rant we all saw coming concerning the upcoming Presidential election on November 8.

Oh. My. God.  What have we done?

You mean to tell us that, of the almost 320 million people in the United States of America, only a highly ambitious former First Lady and a business tycoon with less social skills than hair sense is the best you can do?

This is truly unbelievable.  It’s almost like a parallel universe.  As if we are already in Hell and our worst nightmares are being paraded before us in a round of never-ending torture.  Already many Americans are talking about voting for the ‘lesser of the two evils,’ and some are talking of not voting at all.  This is a dreadful situation, and not one that suggests that democracy is a Good Thing.

Donald J. Trump is making is policies up as he goes along.  He has to; he’s been too busy throughout his 70 years of life building up his business empire, and lately making his name known as a T.V. celebrity with The Apprentice USA.  Too busy to formulate detailed policies about the stuff he purports to care about, such as immigration and jobs.  Build a wall and fire all the Mexicans seems to be his expressed method of coping with the next four years of a Trump administration.

Hillary R. Clinton, who I like to refer to as Slick Hilly, already has her policies firmly in place.  Thing is, they are mostly her husband Bill’s policies from when he was in office, with the additional brilliant idea of blaming the Russians for hacking into her email accounts and trying to stir up trouble with Vladimir Putin.  She likes to take the credit for popping Osama Bin Laden.

By the way, there are also a number of other candidates, including the Green candidate Jill Stein, who would get my vote if I were given the opportunity to do so.  It’s a shame that her party simply do not have the financial backers that Clinton has, or Trump for that matter, although he is paying for his own campaign (mostly).  The U.S., like us here in the U.K., will never see such a seismic shift in the political will of the population so as to allow a party like the Greens into office.

Effectively, then, it is between Trump and Clinton.  Who will you choose?  I repeat what I said at the beginning: Oh. My. God. x