Cyberoutlaw view on Political Issues

The American Presidential Election 2024

If you are interested in the US election, and predicting results, this is a great read, worth the effort:

https://benansell.substack.com/p/hostage-to-fortune

My thoughts? Trump will win [BTW, I absolutely don’t want him to!]. Though this is a very intriguing article ... I think he's missed a vital element - religious fundamentalism. The bazillions of 'God[s] bless America' church cults everywhere with their fatalistic / Pilgrim Father's 'originalist' outlook on life, who like Trump’s simplistic evangelist-sounding statements.

Concerning today's [5th November 2024] US election, here's some 'random' vox pops from American voters in the last week or so:

- "God has sent us a new Moses [Trump] and he's going to take us to the promised land" [after Trump saying, yet again - You'll wake up and I'll make your streets clean, you'll all have jobs and enough wages, the immigrants will be gone, the land will be pure, and America will be great again]

- "It's Jezebel versus Nebuchadnezzar [Trump] and we will support [have to, to save our souls] and vote for the one who will best advance His [choose your god here] work on Earth". [I've heard far too many in that vein]

- [Former Trump supporter, Puerto-Rican] "I'm not voting for anyone [after the 'garbage' joke] so I'm leaving in the hands of God to decide". [WtF if everyone thought that!]

- "No one's come knocking on my door asking who I'm going to vote for so I'm not going to vote for anyone." [America, land of the responsible individual, sigh ]

In any case, Putin of Russia and Xi of China (plus opportunist Modi of India) will be delighted to see the West in turmoil and democracy fading fast. The biggest Threat to Democracy has always been an ill-informed and misinformed electorate. Russia, China and others have used social media to make that a stark reality. One writ large in America today. As Trump himself said:

 "We won the evangelicals. We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated.” (Feb 2016).

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[As at 05 Nov 2024]