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The Rest of the World Waits with Bated Breath
As Joe Biden and Kamala Harris get closer to crossing the line the rest of us in the world wait in hope that they defeat the insane bullying neo-fascist Trump.
We worry when we see those armed men outside a courthouse, the threat obvious and encouraged by their President.
We worry when we see a campaign bus trailed and rammed by flag-waving Trumpers.
We worry when their crazy President cries foul and attempts to stop legitimate votes being counted, making the USA look like a tinpot African dictatorship.
We worry when he encourages his supporters to interfere with counters and make false claims of fraud.
We worry when we see his son making false claims about dumped ballots and is caught on camera and exposed.
What really makes us worry is that almost half of what was the leading country of the free world still votes for an obviously crazed Hitlerite caricature using the same playbook as Goebbels, Hitler and co. and doesn’t see that they are being manipulated in the same way as the German public were in the pre-war years.
Yes, Hitler’s policies turned their economy around, so they went along with it thinking it would all turn out ok. By the time they realised what had happened, their world was changed and the…