Even though I reached American voting age forty-six 46 years ago, when one had to be twenty-one 21, I've never voted in U.S. Elections. Maybe if 1970 had been a "presidential year" I would have applied for an Absentee Ballot, but it wasn't, and all I could think of was getting married and then on the boat to Israel. American politics and elections were not on the menu.
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A bedrock programme in the UK
comedy structure, Yes Minister embodied
the early 1980s attitude to authority and
politics as a gently hypocritical world
filled with doubletalk. |
And over the decades living here in Israel, no American presidential candidate had me excited and enthusiastic enough to fill out the forms and apply for an Absentee Ballot. My general cynicism and decades of following the news and politics here and there have just strengthened my feelings that all candidates lie or at best once in office have much less control over things than one would think.
Again I'd like to recommend the fantastic British comedy "Yes, Minister."
So, davka, why now am I tempted to break my custom?
As in the past, there is no candidate I desperately want to help by giving my vote, but for the very first time there really is a candidate whom I do not want to see with the power of the American Presidency. This is especially after eight years of Barack Hussein Obama who has turned a rare, war only, custom/principle into the norm;
Executive Privilege which overrides American democracy. I'd hate to think of what Hillary Clinton would do with so much power.
So maybe I will vote and I'd vote for Trump. He may not be the best candidate, but he's light years better than Hillary!!
