If you think Americans are anxious about today’s election, imagine how people around the world feel. Prisoners in secret CIA prisons, torture victims at Guantánamo Bay, people in Pakistan and elsewhere who are getting blown up by drones, people who are terrified of being killed by rogue police officers. America literally decides what happened to the lives of millions of people all over the place. Yet both choices are terrible for them.
America Decides 2016
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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“This time vote like your whole world depends on it” – Richard Nixon’s campaign … ’72?
We do seem to keep scraping by, although it is currently three minutest to midnight on the ol’ doomsday clock.
“depended” (fact check first, post second 😉
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If voting mattered they
would have made it illegalwould have you brave long lines on a workday to face a well-worn list of ballot shenanigans to make a choice between people who nobody likes or nobody knows.Walk proudly – you’re
EgyptianAmerican?Hillary Clinton has caused the incarceration and explosive death of more brown and black people than T-rump could ever hope to compete with or catch up to. But the “people-of-color?” They’re supposed to be the most ardent supporters of Kankles. Go figure.
DanD
Figure what? This is the way we roll, historically, dude. Got rid of most of the Indians, enslaved blacks for so long that we still can’t recover from the aftereffects, plus more, and now we can’t understand why we can’t compete with so much of the rest of the world? Du-Oh!
How are you going to recover from the “after effects” when the Left treats blacks like children who, instead of having to stand on their own merit, get freebies and handicaps in employment and education?
«How are you going to recover from the “after effects” when the Left treats blacks like children who, instead of having to stand on their own merit, get freebies and handicaps in employment and education?» Poor «Jack Heart» – still complaining that others others get «freebies and handicaps in employment and education» which s/he desires for her/himself. And I who thought that s/he had made so much money betting on the US presidential election that her/his future was assured ! Guess it’s tough standing on one’s «own merit», when one doesn’t have any….
Henri
Here in Sweden the leading morning newspaper, Dagens Nyheter shows a photo of Mr Trump and one of Mr Putin side by side, with the caption «De delar världsbild». It’s all those nasty Russkies’ fault, you see, that dear Ms Clinton, the corruption queen and neocon warmonger, didn’t get the brass ring….
I suspect we’re in for a wild ride these next four years, but maybe, just maybe, a US war on Russia will not be coming down the pipeline….
Henri
Thank God Henri – a Nuclear War would end most of the world.
«… a Nuclear War would end most of the world.» It certainly would, rikster. Alas, we haven’t a clue what Mr Trump will do after 20 January 2017, The only thing we can do is wait and see who he picks as his advisors, not least in foreign and military affairs. I’m not optimistic, but perhaps there’s a chance….
Henri
The Best Game in the System? When in the world will you people going to learn that at least half or more of the USA are angry, hateful, racist people?
With a history of genocide against the native population, years and years of slavery, years of discrimination against all waves of immigrants, whether Irish, Jewish, Chinese, etc. Plus our imprisonment and mistreatment of Japanese Americans during the War, and more, and more, and more…
All we have left is the largest military-industrial complex in the world, and what’s left of our economic influence throughout the world. Sure – We stood high while the rest of the world recovered from WWII, but that’s the past, and with the Internet and Globalization upon us, we’d better re-think a few things, like healthcare and taking care of our slowly rotting infrastructure.
Empires are built and empires fall. When are we going to get real?
My impression, rikster, is that most people in the United States are, in fact, decent people, just like their counterparts in other parts of the world. Alas, as is usually the case,no matter where in the world one lives, they are poorly led by an elite which is exclusively interested in maintaining their privileges. In the US and particular, they are concerned with maintaining and if possible strengthening the position of global hegemon that they inherited after the devastation of World War II, which of course, is impossible. It is that impossibility which makes them so desperate – and so dangerous….
Henri
I do not believe that “most” of the people in the USA are decent people. I also do not believe that most of the people in the world are decent people. I believe that most of the world is filled with people who are decent as long as they deal with other people conforming with the generally accepted standards of respectable or moral behavior they believe in. If they are faced with something other than this, they don’t usually respond well, or as you’d say, decently. Just look at history – don’t spend time arguing with me, instead, I suggest arguing with history.
«… don’t spend time arguing with me, instead, I suggest arguing with history.» I have absolutely no intention of arguing with you on this issue, rikster, whatever would be the point ? We shall simply have to agree to disagree….
Henri
I agree Henri, I simply hope, like you, that the changes we are seeing will lead us away from any more escalation in war, and that the US and the world can spend more time and resources into making things better for their respective people. 🙂
Rikster,
This is the kind of intolerance that typifies the illiberal Left. You label an entire group you don’t know because you claim they do the same. Hateful indeed.