How free are a people, really when the only two choices they can pick between are Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton? Both horrible people, both so disconnected from the marginalized, from principle, from authenticity. Both unworldly and uninteresting. Remember when American presidents tried to engage with the rest of the world? Herbert Hoover spoke fluent Mandarin. John Quincy Adams was fluent in three foreign languages. Thomas Jefferson studied Latin, Greek, French, and Spanish, and had a library filled with Arabic and Welsh dictionaries. The modern age of American presidents seem to be of the anti-intellectualism school of leadership in comparison, where the idea of the US being "the greatest nation on earth" means the rest of the world should learn America's ways, the culture, the language, the hollow values.
How free are a people when they tolerate what is possibly the most asinine election campaign in human history? Those voting for Donald Trump may be doing so for appalling reasons, but those voting for Hillary Clinton because "it's time for a woman president" are just as dense, if that's their reasoning. With a track record just as bad, and a talent for being two-faced, why not wait for the right woman instead of a woman?
This whole campaign has been completely pointless posturing so that yet another megalomaniac can have a turn at playing God in the white house.
Democrats had the option of electing Bernie Sanders and they chose to rally behind Clinton because she's a woman. They made their bed, now they must lie in it.
Love the title. Didn't realize we had as many multi-lingual US presidents. Almost hard to imagine that being the case now.
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