Americans were voting as started to write this.
Coincidentally this was the day in the UK where we traditionally burn an effigy of Guy Fawkes who tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament. The bonfire is usually accompanied by fireworks.
In America, folk who try to overturn an election and march on the Capitol, get invited to stand at the next election. In the UK, Guy Fawkes was hung.
I thought there might be fireworks in the UK and the USA over the next few days.
I prefer ours.
Well Trump got in. I guess that spared America the inevitable fireworks if he had lost.
But it leaves me asking why? Trump is a criminal, he is vindictive, he is losing his mental faculties. he has obviously got worse over the last four years so how bad will he get in his four years as the most powerful man in the world?
Yet the Americans voted for him. There is no reason why America should have more than the usual percentage of crazy people, and the crazies will be vastly outvoted by “normal” “middle of the road” Americans. So why did these folk vote for him?
In the last election in the UK I voted Lib Dem. Now I don’t like the Lib Dems and I don’t trust them either, but it was a tactical vote as in my constituency this was the surest way of beating the Tories. I did not vote for the Lib Dems, I voted against the Tories.
In Scotland, where I lived for over thirty years, some independence supporting voters actually voted Tory! I am sure they did not like the Tories, but this was the surest way of unseating the incumbent SNP MSP. The SNP are currently a corrupt party who rely on a vote from gullible independence seeking Scots to stay in power.
So the non crazy Americans did not vote for Trump, they voted against the Democrats. They thought that Trump was the lesser of two evils.
Gosh, how bad must the Democrats be?
