I´m indebted, a measured response to an admittedly provocative question, thank you roadrunner. I confess I´ll never understand American politics, but having made the relatively short hop from Yorkshire to Andalucia and found a very different culture, I can see that a few thousand miles west will make even more of a difference. My view of the American presidency is that the tallest candidate usually wins, and since he´s just a frontman it really matters little who fills the role. I´m sure you´ll have a more nuanced view, but I´m more interested in the administration since it has vowed to take over the world.
That´s not a recipe for popularity.
You make an interesting point about what to believe, if I may I would develop it further.
Believing is bad. (I really believe that.)
One of the benefits of a successful education is that one can entertain ideas without investing belief in them.
We can then turn them over with a critical eye.
Should we follow the usual trend we will identify with our ideas, and if they are challenged, or even questioned, we will see this as a personal attack, and muster our troops.
If we are told from the cradle that our country is the greatest and can do no wrong, we will accept this as fundamental, and reject any data to the contrary. This has been beautifully demonstrated on this thread.
So I would say read everything on a global basis, -- but believe nothing.
I agree completely with Fractal Farms point that Trump is a sociopath, the British Home Secretary, Priti Patel is of similar vein -- when a rogue state wants to stir the pot, a sociopath is just what you need. Surely it´s time to see beyond the ¨Divide and Rule ¨nonsense of party politics and find a grown-up system of government ?
