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U S Presidential Election
Any predictions on the result?
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I honestly don't know which way it will go. I heard some pundit sying fewer than about 550 votes will decide it!
I honestly don't know which will be worst for the world and the USA. Each is dangerous in their own way. At least Trump is a known variable.
Possibly Trump will edge it if it is down to margins like that - small areas will matter more than block city votes. Wait and see.
"What I find both alarming and amusing though is that with a population of over 300m, the best the US could come up with were Trump and Harris."
But exactly the same can be said of the UK, BM.
There was a chap on last week's Question Time (of which, unusually, I caught a few minutes). He said he did not understand how, in a country of 65m people, we always seem to end up with economically illiterate people in government.
He's absolutely right and their illiteracy does not end with economics. For the last thirty years or more we have been governed in the main by people who don't have a bloody clue what the UK electorate wants and even less idea how to provide it. Instead they mouth platitudes which they hope will keep us quiet whilst they complete their stint in government and move on to something else.
I find that neither alarming nor amusing. It's simply depressing.