Let’s face it, US politics is only a showy cleaning soap opera laced with sufficient nepotism and corruption to make a banana republic blush

It’s 4 weeks to election day. Chaos reigns within the White Home. The contagious president nonetheless doesn’t wanna put on a masks. Will Donald need to be dragged out by power? Discover out within the season finale of… ‘The Banana Republic.’

There was an American present that ran on just about each TV set in the entire extensive world within the 1980s known as ‘Dynasty’ – pronounced ‘die-nasty’ by Individuals, who wish to mangle the English language.

The principle pictures that instantly spring to thoughts are all tooth and hair. Good tooth, good hair. Male or feminine. Oh, and the theme tune. And cash. 

Cash, cash, cash. I can’t bear in mind a single plot line although, not one.

American politics in a nutshell. 

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There was Dallas too, which was principally the identical present – the exact same tooth, the exact same hair. And, sure, the identical cash, cash, cash. Each exhibits got reboots a number of years in the past, however no person appeared to note them the second time round.

The ‘80s sugar has all been consumed, and everybody is aware of the elemental flaw with sugar; eat an excessive amount of and it makes you sick. The gloss has gone, the tooth are all crowns, and dental implants and all that hair… the fashion hasn’t modified a lot however it has misplaced its sheen and gone gray.

The world is watching America, however not for any type of ‘management.’ ‘Dynasty’ has became ‘The Sopranos.’ Some Individuals are speaking of a second civil conflict (apparently to be fought totally on Twitter and Fb). Democrats and Republicans are ‘going to the mattresses.’ 

The remainder of us are all mere spectators. We have now no say in any way in what occurs within the good outdated US of A. So, loosen up – sit again and benefit from the present.

The subsequent 4 weeks is simply going to be two offended outdated males, shouting at one another VERY LOUDLY! But saying nothing a lot of something in any respect.

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Polls present that 40 p.c of registered voters will vote Trump, come what might. The numbers simply don’t drop a lot under 40 for the Donald, they usually haven’t for a superb whereas. Bungling the response after which catching Covid-19 – streaking bare within the moonlight throughout the Rose Backyard garden, no matter – nothing can knock him beneath 40 for lengthy. Nothing.

However hold on, take a deep breath, put your fingers in your ears and block out all of the noise. Trump v Biden is definitely principally simply Coke v Pepsi (even the colours match). Identical because it all the time is in American politics. In case you take a look at the insurance policies, they don’t seem to be separated by huge chasms. It’s hardly Karl Marx v Adolf Hitler. It’s little or no to do with coverage, it’s all about persona.

Donald Trump has confirmed that anybody can, certainly – with the proper persona – change into president. In case you are in possession of an virtually irrational amount of self-belief, are mildly telegenic, oh and have a number of billion mendacity round or wealthy benefactors keen to splurge in your marketing campaign, then the keys to the White Home may very well be yours.

Trump v Biden. I imply actually, Uncle Sam, is that this the BEST you are able to do?

America has virtually thrice as many Nobel Prize winners as another nation and virtually twice as many billionaires as its nearest rival. And but, from a inhabitants of virtually 330 million, the selection for president in precisely 4 weeks time boils right down to… two livid, inarticulate geriatrics shouting at one another throughout a socially distanced stage.

What’s extra, the election, as Trump retains screaming, might not even be secure.

Most of my banking is completed on-line or through an app nowadays, and I’d counsel individuals are far more protecting and paranoid of their hard-earned money than they’ll ever be about their vote. The rattling factor scans your face or does a fingerprint check solely the police used to have the ability to do. How onerous can or not it’s to make a voting app?

However, apparently, the US voting system is so extensive open to corruption that some bloke can simply pop together with a mail bag and stuff a load of slips marked ‘Biden’ right into a poll field (however, presumably, none marked ‘Trump’) and swing the election. Keep in mind ‘hanging chads,’ anybody?

After which there’s the end result. As a result of an absurd and antiquated system, a president can get elected although the opposite man or gal really bought extra votes (as occurred, in fact, in Trump v Hillary Clinton and George W. Bush v Al Gore).

It’s nuts. It’s bonkers. It’s an insane cleaning soap opera.

I lived in Asia for a few years and was a correspondent in Manila. The Philippines, my apologies to Filipinos, was a nut home. And the politics down there was so typically only a foolish, but very harmful, cleaning soap opera. And, funnily sufficient, the Philippines might as soon as have change into an American state.

Nicely, the US, proper now, feels precisely the identical and, identical to any self-respecting banana republic, it is usually a household affair. 

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You disagree? President George H.W. Bush after which his son George ‘Dubya.’ President Invoice Clinton’s missus virtually ran all the way in which to the White Home. Many individuals have been making an attempt to push Michelle Obama to make a bid too, and perhaps she’s going to, subsequent time. However the true race to observe in ‘The Banana Republic’ can be in three or 4 elections time when the youngest Trump boy, Barron, takes on the youngest Obama woman, Sasha.

Anyway, that’s for the long run.

Let’s all simply sit again for 4 weeks and watch the climax to this season of ‘The Banana Republic.’ Pop spherical mine for the finale in case you like, what are you consuming? Coke or Pepsi?

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