Thursday, March 3, 2016

DONALD TRUMP, MITT ROMNEY AND THE REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN: COULD IT GET ANY UGLIER?

Mitt Romney calls Donald Trump a phony an a fraud. Trump answers back labeling Mitt Romney a 'choke artist'. This is not a small time fight between neighbors, guys. It is in live television and the whole world is watching as America prepares to vote for its next president. Yet the level of debates between Republican candidates seems so low that it sounds alarm bells even to the non-Americans.

If you compare it to, say, an NBA Draft Night, you know right away that there's not going to be future hall of famers in this batch. Only, this is not the NBA Draft Night, and the stakes are much, much higher.

It is hard to imagine the possibility and the danger of having a US President------the most powerful man in the world and the commander- in- chief of the most powerful armed forces -----------deliberately  abandoning the basic conduct of proper human interaction. With Donald Trump, human interaction is reduced to a simple and primitive slave-master relationship. That is, during the campaign. I don't know what to call it if and when he really becomes President of the United States.


Has America really gotten so angry with its current state (which is not so bad, really) that a man like Donald Trump has earned a legitimate chance to become the next president? And the worse thing is, with Mitt Romney breaking his silence, he seems to sound like Trump too.

The Republican Party is dragged in the mud, and hopefully, not  US politics and world affairs too.