Bernie Sanders is the socialist opponent of Hillary Clinton. He trails in opinion polls, but not by much. He is the obvious response to 40 years of right-wing ideology in the USA, from both parties. He has a real plan. He is not a criminal. He would mean a very different America. He will not win.
Fiorina is also real. She is a dark horse in the Republican race, but has the good virtue of not being a sick opportunist and/or sycophant to the Oligarchy (i.e. Bush and Christie...), or nuts (i.e. most of the rest of the ticket). She is an accomplished and self-made person who conducts herself with decorum, and who would obviously be a very good president, in spite of her more hard-core Republican views. She has no chance.
And so, we will likely have The Donald and Hillary.
One has no idea how government works; the other wants to be the government.
One obviously values women only based on their bra size; the other portrays herself as the defender of all women, especially the poor while, as a public servant, having amassed a fortune of in excess of $21 Million.
One is a member of the 1%, and as such is comfortable hobnobbing with the very small number of rich people who actually run America; the other desperately wants to be part of the 1% so that she do precisely the same thing.
One wants to "Make America Great Again"; the other wants to make America hers entirely, subtly channelling Indira Gandhi and Evita Peron.
One has shamelessly supported anyone he thought would do his bidding in office; the other has shamelessly accepted his money.
Both would divide an already divided country; Hillary dividing Democrats from Republicans - Red states from Blue; Trump riding waves of fear and racism to divide one identifiable group at a time from everyone else, until everyone is divided from everyone else.
If a country's greatness is measured by the quality of its leaders, are we witnessing an "end of days" scenario in America? Is there no one better than these two?
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