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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
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And that says it all.
When a European sees dirt poor farmers in the Midwest scream adulation for a far right business owned politician who is so reliant on businesses to fund them. We are amazed, confused, bewildered. In Europe the political divide is very firmly based on income, poorer blue collar workers vote Left, better off white collar workers vote Right. Simply because they know where their best interests lie.
Blaming the politicians for being no good, is missing the point. Millions vote for them.
We have an organisation that's set on turning Europe into a Federal State and there has been no EU wide referendum.
The US system is so cast in stone, no one without $millions can get into office.
These aren't democracies Lincoln would have been proud of. As for the UK, we have been trying to get away from an elitist ruling class for centuries, now sleepwalking into an new one.
Finally, for now, what happens in the US has huge effects on this industry and the world. I have every right to comment. I never comment on the way Togo runs its affairs.