This is an open letter to the people of the United States of America.

Dear USA:

When President DONALD J. DUCK was elected in 2020, over Hillary Clinton, I finally realised that there was, in the United States between the two forms of corruption that were on offer.

It was never going to be an easy victory, but I sense – and this is only a guess – that, had Mrs Clinton got into office and then lost the subsequent election to Trump, she would not have engaged in the kind of undemocratic skullduggery which we saw from Trump and his supporters during the infamous riots of January 6, 2021.

Four years is a long time in politics, and since 2017 the United Kingdom – that’s us – has got through FOUR prime ministers, all conservative, in THERESA MAY, BORIS JOHNSON, LIZ TRUSS and RISHI SUNAK. If you follow our constitutional monarchy, you’ll know that we’ve had all kinds of trouble, not the least of which was the death of QUEEN ELIZABETH II in 2022 after a whopping seventy years on the metaphorical ‘throne.’ When she ascended to the throne in 1952, Albert Einstein was still alive.

Now, dear friends in the USA, you approach another election this November with an effective choice in (like ours) a two-party political system. And last week was the first debate between incumbent president Biden, and the former president Trump, supposedly battling it out on our screens for some kind of reelection. Trump knew that all he had to do was stand back and watch as Biden fell over himself verbally, forgot where he was in mid sentence, and essentially showed that, because of his age, he is not fit for any kind of public office, never mind President of the United States of America.

If you care to look back through the history of my rants, you will find that I was making this very point at the time of the last election in 2020. For what it’s worth, I was also making the point that, should it happen (it did) and Trump were to lose the election, he would not take defeat well. He didn’t. He almost brought the country to its knees because he is a sore loser.

I shall reiterate: Biden will be 82 in November; Trump will be 78. That’s crazy. Suddenly, RONALD REAGAN‘s 1985 crack about not making political capital out of his opponent’s youth and inexperience isn’t funny any more. You are voting, should you choose to do so, for a man who will – even if he is still living, which at the moment does not look like a guarantee – be 86 at the time that he gracefully hands the keys to the White House over to its next inhabitant. Donald Trump, should you be mental enough to vote for him, will himself be 82. You never know what can happen in life, but you are voting for one of two candidates who statistically may not live to see out their four years. And even if they do, what kind of mental state will either candidate be in, Biden’s health being of particular concern.

Seriously, America, from a country boasting a massive population of almost 340 million people – that, incidentally, is the third highest in the world after India and China – you cannot find two better candidates for each party, Democrat and Republican, than these two ancient clowns? And, quite rightly, you could fire it right back at us in the UK and say, well, what about you lot? You have 67 million souls in your country and, seriously, Sunak and SIR KIER STARMER (Labour) are the best you can do? And forget the Liberal Democrats, because they will just get into bed with whoever asks them and drop their own policies to do it. And I would be forced to agree with you.

I have nothing against wealth. It just so happens that Rishi Sunak’s personal fortune is double that of his own monarch, and Donald Trump’s current net worth is around $6.5 BILLION, according to Bloomberg. That, according to them, makes him one of the world’s richest people. But, as a well-worn cliche tells us, he didn’t get where he is today…blah, blah, blah…

The next 4-5 years are going to be very interesting indeed at the very least, and extremely worrisome at the worst. We could be at war with Russia with our cities lain to waste and millions of our people dead, or we could be under the fist of a conservative faction that cares nothing for us, for our public services, and for our future as a safe place to live and work.

Oh, it seems that you’re in the same boat.

Cheers,

Stephen x