America

Wow. Just wow.

I find it incredible that so many people would vote for Trump. I fully realise that Clinton wasn’t an ideal candidate, and of course is hardly angelic, but really? Trump is more suited, more acceptable, more rational than she is?

I find it even more incredible that apparently sane and normal women decided voting for him was the way to go. Did they not see what everyone else saw? Did they not believe the actual facts spoken about him? The proof given about the way he treats women?

I can’t pretend to understand US politics generally, and I know that the choice wasn’t quite as clear cut as it appeared on the surface. I’m not in the US, and what travels across the pond is bound to be distorted in some way, but evidence is truth: And it is evident he is a bad, bad man.

At least he managed to turn even most of his own party against himself, so hopefully they’ll remember that when he starts trying to enact these ridiculous changes he’s proposed. At least when people here voted for Brexit, many did so based on promises made which (if they’d been true) would have been good for the country. I can’t see that for the US decision.

Oh, and this appeared in my inbox yesterday: