Gentle reader, this is a worst-case scenario to the very extreme. But I have to write this. It is an elephant in the room, a very fat, gross, ugly and mean Republican American elephant and he has to be named. Donald Trump. Yes. But what this obnoxious and dangerous clown of a billionaire could possibly represent, should the American people be stupid enough to grant him access to the White House and the nuclear codes.
This has turned out to be the most bizarre presidential race in US history and we in Canada ought to sit up and take notice. As Trudeau Senior once famously said, having America for a neighbour is like a mouse having to sleep next to an elephant. Every single move and sound the elephant makes is going to impact the mouse and in spades. Now that there is a high possibility of this moron with bad hair gaining the highest political office in the land and the most powerful in the world we are going to be at risk and possibly in danger in so many ways:
Yes, Trump the Dump has promised to tear up international trade agreements, deport Muslims and Latinos, build a wall with Mexico that he insists Mexico is going to pay for, murder the innocent family members of terrorists, revoke the minimum wage, ignore climate change and beef up fossil fuel extraction, transport and trade, and threaten with nuclear annihilation any country that pisses him off. He has proven to be many times over a liar, a mean-spirited, emotionally unstable, bigoted and hateful liar.
No matter what outrageous and stupid claims that he makes, his support base remains strong and no one is going to mind that he tells it like it is, which is to say what they want to hear, no matter how stupid and false, because it is what they want to hear. Trump the Dump has promised to make America great again by putting the white, uneducated working class back to work-which is to say that by kicking everyone off of welfare and abolishing the minimum age he would legally force all his white poorly uneducated supporters into near slave labour conditions.
Trump the Dump is the Great Reptilian Brain Wizard. As poorly educated people have neither the resources nor a developed capacity to be rational nor to carefully consider a variety of options and positions, Trump is strategically positioned to exploit these people's fear, resentment and hate to the max. They are justifiably angry at being left behind by the global economy and they cannot be faulted for wanting to lash back at the very politicos who helped strip America of its manufacturing industries, putting millions out of work, many of whom work now in poorly paid positions. This has also made it all the more convenient to dump the blame on immigrants for stealing their jobs, no matter how much evidence there is to refute this nonsense.
There still remains a strong possibility that Trump the Dump could well be the next president. When he is elected one can only guess what this could mean for Canada. If Trump proves to be as much like Hitler as a lot of us tend to imagine him then we could be in deep doo-doo. Trump, with his classic fear-mongering paranoia, could easily invent any number of excuses for an invasion and armed occupation of Canada. Remember Austria in 1938? He could cite our liberal multiculturalism, our welcoming of immigrants as posing an imminent threat to America, along with the ongoing temptation of our fat motherlode of natural resources. Whatever he wants.
After that it's anyone's guess, but I'll bet you Tim Horton's to Krispy Kreme that this could signal a very dark and dangerous epoch for our country and that any thinking person, political activist, or intellectual would find their lives in grave danger. Even me, Gentle Reader, with my lovely blog and some of the less than kind things I sometimes have to write about the powerful. While sitting on the edge of my seat and trying not to bite my nails, between now and the first week of November, I am going to be particularly nervous and observant. The best part of me knows that this is but a fleeting bad dream, that in November reason will prevail, Hillary, for all her flaws will be the next president, and we will continue to fumble our way towards working for a slightly better world.
But just in case, I am trying to visualize asking customs in Costa Rica or some other Hispanic country for political asylum. The good news? My Spanish is now better than ever.
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