America. What have you fucking gone and done?

What a god damn clusterfuck of horror this election has turned out to be. I know it isn’t even my country, but FUCK. The world has just ended.

I know some of the people I have met along the way here will disagree with me. I know some of those I have known for much longer will think me a twat. But hey ho. So be it. I know you are decent enough folk to realise that despite our massive difference of opinion on this, we can still get along. That said, my opinion is this:

I, in no way shape or form can get my head around the fact that people with hearts and brains could openly support and rejoice at the election of such a vile human as Donald J Trump.

I am sorry, it just doesn’t compute.

Who could possibly think it acceptable to vote for a person who is:

Sexist?

Racist?

Homophobic?

Bankrupt (both morally and financially)?

Tax fraudulent?

Politically inconsistent and incoherent?

A liar?

A bully?

I could go on for days… but you have heard it all before. Yet you don’t care.

The answer to all of those questions, sadly, is many Americans. Enough evidently to get him the presidency.

Say what you want about Hillary Clinton, I don’t care, I didn’t like her either.

Corrupt, yes. Who in the White House isn’t to some degree?

Cold and deceptive. Yes for sure, but really is that the worst thing you can pull up against a politician?

In the pockets of Wall Street. Indeed, but the country has been since it’s birth, as have most.

Misrepresents her philanthropic agenda for personal gain. Definitely, she does some good, she takes more than she should. (Trump is no better in this regard for sure)

Don’t even mention Benghazi.

All of this and all of the others are by the by. There is one question that needs be asked to which the answer, even without Trumps bigotry, puts her poles apart from Trump.

Is she reasonable?

Trump has the temper of a 5 year old only with a nuclear arsenal. He has stated he has no qualms about using it in Europe. He even called the SNL skit about him mean and unfair and threw his toys out the pram. He thinks that climate change is a hoax and he thinks that coal is clean energy.

Again the list of the ways this man is the exact opposite of reason is unending, even without the talk of the things like the business and sexual harassment suits/allegations, ongoing but you’ve all heard it before, I will be just regurgitating stuff and the lazy Trump fan will just say things along the lines of it’s made up, or its just bashing him ‘cos I’m a lefty. But sadly, they are all clear as day fact. Not speculatory as much of Trumps pointed tongue was toward the other side. I am actually no lefty either. I am a person, with a conscience that simply believes a good society looks after, respects and cares for one another. I’m bashing him because he warrants bashing.

On top of this, much of Trump’s support has come from the good Christian folk of the US. I have nothing against the believers. I do not want to be preached at but that is fair enough, believe what you like. But this has come down, in many peoples eyes as an anti abortion vote. Which astounds me that any good Christian could put aside all that other stuff, or worse still support it is beyond me.

The sad thing is, the republicans have the senate, congress and now the president. This is dire for all the progress for rights of people that don’t fit the Uber-God-Squad profile. Trump’s VP believes the earth is only a few thousand years old. For fucks sake. These people are not fit to govern a village, let alone a country.

Hillary at least would look at things with a cool head, things might not get much better, some would get better some might get a little worse, but nothing maddening and potentially catastrophic. At least there would be some diplomacy in negotiations. Trump has precedent in his negotiations being simply “I’m too rich for you to hurt me…take it or leave it”, I’m paraphrasing, it’s no direct quote, but it’s all there in the open for you to see what kind of person would go to bat for the US.

Some say it was the fact that Hillary is a woman. That to me is a lazy argument, she is a woman, which may be a part of it, but she was a flawed, deeply so to many, candidate. The misogyny may have played a part but I don’t see it as the main factor.

Trump was also a deeply flawed candidate. Many people state a need for change. I get that. I really do, but USA and democrats in particular, Bernie was the only humane chance for that.

This leads to my final point(not final, I have days of things to write, so much so that my brain is imploding and this piece has become the inarticulate drivel it has ended up, but I don’t want to put up the same lazyman arguments the rest of the world has cut and pasted on Facebook, not to say many aren’t valid).

The big question for me is where the fuck did your humanity go America? I had it levelled by a friend of mine (admittedly I had just made many of the points I had left off this piece in an ill-timed rant due to my anger and probably undeservedly so at its target although, they did think it jolly good Trump had won. But then again, I know that I would not a good president make) that they thought that I was more open minded, that a change was called for and that this was the way the folk saw fit. The change being called for I get. Too right. Change for the better though. Stepping backwards is not even close to a change for the better. This prick and his ideals at best belong in the 50’s and probably feel more at home in the dark ages. It is exactly my open mindedness that rules out any inkling of support for this cock-end. He is oppressive to those who make a different lifestyle choice to that of he and his followers. A proven misogynist and racist. A would be war criminal (bomb the shit out of them/take out their families/take their oil…just in case you felt like debating that). A pledged suppressor of religious freedom. An open denier of science. He has openly ripped off the working and middle classes to afford himself the lifestyle he has. He even gloats about not paying his due taxes. No person of open mind could support such closed minded values or comprehend anyone that does. That is my big problem. America you have lost your integrity and your humanity (as have many recently with Brexit, Le Pen et al.). The world is turning on it’s head and compassion and good old human decency are being lost to fascist and self-centric thinking and sadly your President Elect is the damning yet terrifying proof.

 

ADDENDUM: Between writing this and publishing, there have been numerous protests, violence and riots from those not happy with the outcome. Those same folks that (rightly) decried Trumps insistence he would not accept a loss. The shoe is on the other foot and those hypocrites are acting exactly no better. Elections are stacked, Often in the favour of conservatives, that’s true. But change the system, find real people to represent you not caricatures and for the love of all that is good vote for them, but when a vote is cast, that adhere’s to the rule of the land, you better accept it, for that is democracy. This all really only shows that the common person, man, woman, white, black, brown, blue and red have as a populous become so far removed from democratic, socially responsible folk that the only conclusion I can draw is that no one idea is better than another, that we are all fucked, because the world goes “All In” for “their” team. It is mindfuckingly ridiculous.