The United States presidential elections are barely two months away. Donald J Trump, the hair-raising and controversial republican presidential candidate is looming large on the political scene. It looks as if the former US secretary of state and member of the political dynasty, the Clintons, Hillary Rodham Clinton is playing catch up.
This being election season in America, you would be forgiven to even think that we are in an election season. This election unlike others in the past is one of the drabbest, uninspiring and dour rituals to have descended on America and the world.
Gaffe-prone republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has contributed a lot in making this election one of the dullest. With his usually eccentric, divisive and derisive talk, Mr. Trump has successfully managed to hog the limelight and shift the focus away from the democrats and Hillary Clinton.
Few weeks ago he sauntered across the American border to Mexico, a country he so reviles and disdains that he believes is the surrogate mother of all evil: illegal immigrants, drug peddlers, rapists according to Trump.
He was tough talking and unrepentant despite a huge demonstration by Mexicans, promising that the Mexican government was going to foot the bill for his planned border fence to keep out illegal immigrants from Mexico.
You will have to ask yourself, why did American even allow such a divisive brained individual to even come close anywhere near the keys of the white house?
A lot of Americans are frustrated and riled about many issues ranging from unemployment, insecurity, racial tensions and to many of them immigration, which among the rank and file of the republicans is such a prickly issue that president Obama's bill on comprehensive immigration reform was shot down by the republicans at the US senate way back in 2014.
The concerns about undocumented immigration mostly from Mexico amid other issues have been bubbling under the surface for a long time. Like a pressure cooker releasing steam, the pressures and concerns about illegal immigration have burst into the open and Mr. Trump has been able to successfully tap and play into those fears.
With that he has been able to get a ready audience who has bought into his bravado and he has cast himself as anti-establishment.
Meanwhile as Trump nudges ahead with his increasingly verbose and hair-raising comments, Hillary Clinton campaign for the white house appears lackluster and uninviting.
This is why I think Hillary and the democrats need to get serious about the November elections. CBS news has the two presidential candidates, Trump and Hillary in a dead heat tie of 42-42 percent each in key battleground states and ominously according to the New York post, black voters are moving away from Clinton to Trump in the latest poll.
Comical relief; Trump is at last proving a serious contender for the white house and this should worry the democrats and indeed the world.
Hillary Clinton and the democrats need to stop wishy-washing, if they can't stop Trump with his fair share of foibles, fault lines and hair brained ideas, they should forget their quest for the white house.
