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Originally Posted by Whiskey

This is probably a bit rambling.

We don't see a whole lot of Clinton, Trump gets a lot more coverage that I see, media and social media combined, his propaganda, his sheer idiocy, & the personality cult around him.

Looks like they're trying to start a civil war, from what we see on the outside there's next to nothing on policy, it's go for the jugular on your opponent.

Trump could win it, more from people who want to kick the establishment rather than him being the best candidate. Look at Duterte in the Philipines, the british leaving the EU, people who want to kick the system do some odd things, especially if you feed them oversimplified 'me good / them bad' ****.

It's starting to go the same way here, our leader of the opposition has a personality cult (but he's a bit more bernie sanders), doesn't listen to anyone bar his yes men, disregards policy when it suits him, has lost the confidence of all bar his personality cult.
One of the oppositioin MPs (~congresswoman) from the next county north of me was shot dead not too long ago over being seen not to be anti immigration enough. That's in a country where guns are very difficult to get, the guy made one himself for the assassination.

That was a great synopsis of what is going on here. Trump got as far as he did because he is not part of the establishment.. Bernie did not get any further than he did because the establishment of the democrats already had there candidate in mind and wanted to put on a show and not make there intentions obvious to the Bernie supporters and the rest of the world.