Anerriphtho kubo

"Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud .  .  .  hatch out"

It now appears that the two finalist for the office of President of the United States this year will be Donald Trump of the GOP and Hillary Clinton of the "Democrats" ( like her hubby, she reminds me, politically, of the majority of Republican politicians in Wisconsin when i was a sprout, but i digress...). 

I assume that if you are a regular reader of this blog, you know how i will vote. Assuming that I do vote, and not take the position of good old Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus. 

Anywho...

I want to write a couple things about this election year.

First, there has been a fair amount of apolitical stuff out there about how parents & civics teachers have been having problems talking with children about the things Donald Trump says. This link may be helpful for a start.

Second, people who do not want Mr. Trump to win, must not become over-confident. What a person says they will do to a spouse, friend, co-worker, or pollster, etc., may be quite different in the privacy of the voting booth. All of us, to a variable extent, have within us that primeval core that for which the Trump message is perhaps the strongest.

Third, I am very interested in how the planetary media-verse will handle this election race. Everybody overseas watches our presidential elections. For many of them, it is not unlike watching the old fashioned competition for who will be their emperor. This one has an interesting feature though. 

This will be the first election fight for the highest executive office in the government of a "great power", where it can be said without resort to hyperbole, that one of the contenders is apparently racist, ethnocentric, etc., since 1933. Very interesting intellectually speaking.