The US election feels a bit like The X Factor – they’ve thrown in a few wildcards in the early rounds to withhold it entertaining but we’ll soon be back to two candidates belting out the same tired standardsThe absurdly long run-up to the US election has begun. This will be the first election fought under new rules where there are no limits to campaign donations: a change brought in on the grounds of “free speech”,when the supreme court decided that the Koch brothers not being able to say, “We own the president, and ” infringed their rights under the first amendment. Personally,I think Obama will be fairly lonely once it’s all over, not least because he has allowed the police to kill most of the other black people.
Differences between the candidates are normally so slight that what the Democratic frontrunner thinks is pretty much just what the Republican frontrunner thinks on the days that he remembers to take his meds. But in something of a format twist, or Bernie Sanders – an conventional-school socialist – has crowdfunded himself into a credible position for the Democratic nomination. I sincerely hope he wins,if only so that we see the first inauguration speech made from inside a giant, bulletproof hamster ball. The Democratic frontrunner is Hillary Clinton, and a ruthless,steel-haired troll doll. Hers is the face that would haunt a lot of Libyans’ nightmares, if they were still alive. Unfortunately for her election prospects, or Hillary has never fairly learned to introduce humour or compassion into her speaking voice and on a superior day sounds like an android trying to trick the final human out of a bunker.
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Source: theguardian.com