Choosing between the trash - What I meant when I said that I prefered Clinton over Trump and what now
Autor: Luiz_Alex007 | Publicado: 2017-02-26T01:17:00-11:00

After a post about both the final candidates for the USA presidential elections of 2016, I thought that my view on the matter was quite well explained. But, the hyper-polarized political environment around it made a lot of people misinterpret my points about it. So, after a lot of similar discussions, I decided to once again gather some thoughts about it. This time, mostly defending my already made point of why I would have rather seen the USA's elect Hillary Clinton as their president than Donald Trump. 

Although, by my countries voting system and my view on democracy, I do feel like she should have been awarded the office due to receiving more votes than her adversary... That is another subject that I already talk about as well and I don't feel like touching right now. I don't even think there is much merit bringing it up when I believe to have better points to bring up.

Firstly, Hillary seems to be a corrupt politician, deep in the pockets of her campaign donors and not afraid of back room meetings. She had several proven ties with bankers and Wall Street figures. She has shown all the marks of a "mainstream politician", even proudly taking credit for toppling foreign governments. I already knew that, it's pretty much public information. It's no surprise, the wealthy have been using their financial power to elected friendly figures and cement their power through politics since the foundation of the US and since the start of times. Hell, I doubt a single President of the United States of North America since Nixon hasn't been intentionally, practically semi publicly, doing deals with bankers and pretending not to. It's already accepted as the nature of the system. The class of politicians born from this systems is also well known by anyone who lives in the countries directly influenced by the USA.

As well as that, Clinton has been linked to financial fraud on the Clinton Organization's actions in Haiti and beyond. I never found actual proof of Hillary's actual involvement in it. But I am prone to believe on the basis that she has been proved to be lying many times before and that wouldn't surprise me. Using false philanthropy to launder money is a tactic so widespread, I don't doubt she and/or her associates do it.

I also know Clinton participated in the toppling down of Lybia's government. Albeit a dictatorship, it was their government and they decided to topple it down for their own interests. But, quite frankly, that is quite tame when I think about US's governments and presidents. I mean, USA's history really has a lot of bombing, pillaging and organizing coups. Ever since the start of the XX (20th) century, the USA has been organizing coups and even outright invasions of Latin American countries. Through using the Monroe Doctrine and the excuse of "liberation", they actually supported coups against democracies. I know it's a very used argument of mine by now, but I always mention the Operation Condor. Mainly because it directly affected my family's and my own life. After all, by the words of the 45th POTUS, Donald Trump: "You think our country[USA] is so innocent?". Even he seems aware of how many times US governments took down governments to avoid possible rivals.

Therefore, I really don't see Clinton as different from the usual politicians. And, although I don't like the current sociol-political caste formed by politicians in most western nations, I think they aren't the worst thing possible. I don't like the corrupt models instituted by them, but I understand their minds and I see them as usually less risky to me and my family. In other words, I don't like politicians. But an usual politician is less risky than an unpredictable real state billionaire with populist and retrograde rhetoric.

Even though both have a proven past of outright enrichment through conning and abusing other people. Both are predictably seeking power for themselves. But one seemed qualified to administrate a nation and maintain world peace. The other is clearly seeking more power and shaping things to his liking and opinions. By that I mean that I believe Hillary Clinton knows how to operate such a big machine and would do it better than Donald Trump.

So, I am not talking about pussies and Trump's behavior regarding women. During elections, I am not interested solely in the morality of the candidates. I am interested in who I believe is capable of using their desired roles to what I believe to be closer to my ideal of a world and society. 

Trump doesn't seem like the candidate I would trust to do anything but work for himself. His whole life has been an egoistic life. And I am talking about enriching himself through the exploration of cheap labor and false advertisement to the point of practically lying to others. Which, to be fair, Clinton has been proven to do too. I also can't judge, I am a very proud egocentric and hedonistic person myself.

But I feel like, between Clinton's life long career and politics and Trumps life of luxury and real state business, you could at least fantom that the US had something to gain out of her actions. That her actions were of a nation's leader, morally ambiguous but with a reason. After all, she had to at least work well enough to not break down the country. Also, in a Machiavellian train of thought, I consider the leaders should not always be judged on the same balance as normal citizens. Their decisions carry more weight and aren't so simple. It doesn't completely justify any action, just makes her actions more understandable to me than his.

From what I know, Trump also committed questionable actions. All of that when he wasn't even president either. And he seemly did it all for his own benefit. Trump University, failed casinos, tax evasion, hostile take over property, false advertisement. All of that seems unnecessary and unjustifiable, it seems like pure greedy and disregard for others. His life was never set to be a good leader or worrying about the losses. 

That is why I believe he doesn't even really care if he does an horrible job as president. Just competing and being elected was already a good investment for him. And he has already shown that he didn't really prepare for winning and what to do now that he is elected. From now on, he is probably going to push harder to gain more. It doesn't matter if he doesn't succeeds, he won't suffer any consequence by himself. He is old and rich, not much to lose and incredible power on his hands. This is not the type of man I like seeing with access to so much power, specially military power. This is why I rather see a predictably corrupt politician, who at least shows some basic lines of control, than someone who lives only for himself. 

Honestly, it's a purely and recognized egoistic and subjective view of mine. I don't like the USA and am also proud of it. I honestly hope to see their natural, hopefully peaceful, decline happen in my lifetime. I already stated that many times. But I feel like a man like Donald Trump and his administration have shown to be a risk to everything I envision of a better world in many different levels. He is clearly not worried about causing wars and wrecking the whole world. Be it on climate change or international relations, he has shown to not be worried about long term consequences, he is just out for himself. That became a risk to everyone in this world when he received power over one of, if not the, most powerful country in the current world.

Ideally, as a center left liberal, I would have really liked to see the Democrat Party pre candidate Bernie Sanders to be elected. But, once that hope was smothered by both parties, I sincerely just hoped that no one "too bad" took the slot. Unfortunately, through populism and reaching out to the disenfranchised, a man who showed no regard even for his own people took charge. Now I just hope that his administration is well recorded, as an example of the pros and cons of having someone like him having so much power. And I hope that these records are used to develop a better sociopolitical society.