Super Tuesday, Super Bad

Super Tuesday, Super Bad

By: Erreh Svaia

“From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.”

Salman Rushdie

I guess not so much people came out happy from “Super Tuesday”, as Donald Trump reaffirmed his candidacy leading the Republican Party race, Bernie Sanders campaign sank and establishment candidate Hillary Clinton looked as the obvious choice for the Democratic Party.

According to the latest polls and the so called Super Tuesday, it seems that the battle for the USA presidency will be disputed by Hillary Clinton on the Democratic Party side, and Donald Trump on the Republican Party side, with Clinton finally putting distance between her and so called socialist Bernie Sanders, although Sanders did a great campaign, changing the political landscape of youth in the USA, and putting the seeds of a more left winged future in the upcoming years, coming out of nowhere and almost defeating Clinton at certain points in the end, Clinton managed to make clear who the winner was, Clinton will represent a part of the population not quite convinced enough, with less than half if the voters choosing for Sanders and exhibiting that if some people called Obama a socialist without justification, they were with Sanders brand of socialism a 100%, what was a problem for Obama became a strength for Sanders, while what was a strength for Clinton, her moderation and political family tradition, almost turned into a weakness.

Trump finally making evident that he is the preferred candidate for the conservative voters is truly a horrific sign, the fact that conservatives, evangelicals, white supremacists and even Latinos backed Trump hate campaign is scary, scary even for Republican Party scary standards, Trump the populist with the hate and intolerant speech managed to kidnap a political party, the GOP knew things were going too far out, but their lack of vision allowed Trump to used them as a trampoline in order to get a nation's attention, conservatives desperate to gain control at the Senate, evangelicals who felt offended by Democrats stance at topics like abortion, white supremacism who want a race war, and confused Latinos made Trump's clownish campaign into a scary reality, a worrying sign of the true state the USA is at the time, when your supporters turn out to be Louis Farrakhan, leader of the anti-Semitic Nation of Islam, David Duke, leader of the Klu Klux Klan and other ultra nationalist and ultra conservative fractions of society, you know you are playing with forces bigger, scarier and wilder than you ever thought.

Ironically Clinton, will go for the campaign as the moderate candidate and Trump as the radical one, Clinton will go as the repudiated establishment figure that didn't managed to create big expectation, while Trump will go as an outsider who managed to capture people's wildest dreams, I don't believe that either Clinton will do such a bad job as expected, but her lukewarm performance in recent years will surely alienate even more the angry voters, nor Trump will became the deranged war monger people expect, in the end, Hillary's strategy is to appear cold headed and moderate against Trump attacks, and Trump strategy is to show off the macho bravura so in vogue in a post Putin world, Trump the business man is playing his role perfectly, but a big talker falls faster and the illusions of Trump's fans could disappear quickly, perhaps Hillary's lack of big promises might prove her the more down to earth between the two candidates, between Trump lunacy and Hillary’s moderation, Clinton might be the les deceptive, not exactly the best.