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I have always been interested in politics - whether in SA or worldwide. I was brought up in a house where politics was never discussed with the children - but where there always was a distrust of Government, irrespective of who was in charge.
Anyway to give you an example - when in school my best subject was history o when they asked me what book price I want on attaining the top History performance in school, I chose War and Peace of Tolstoy, Being interested in history - you obviously have to take note of politics and in modern time history is there for all to see in the media.
As to American politics there is a very real problem that I pickled up by looking at CNN and I found that over time they became the voice of the Democratic Party. I still watch the BBC and Sky News - also Bloomberg News. The SA news services are basically anti Trump as well. I generally do not follow the type of videos Beeno post on site.
Over the years I found that media has become more radicalized and less reliable. so I do much more reading on a wider basis than most people do. I sometimes read up expert findings of professionals that tend to explain the outcomes of elections and came to the conclusion that through influence of the media ordinary working class people tend to be poorer today than they were in the 1980's, while the politico's and the wealthy are getting richer. The media try to brainwash people constantly and most of what is happening is easily distorted. Fact is that some stories have been disgusting.
Over the last 40 years the Americans had had a serious detrimental impact on politics worldwide. The main interest of the Presidents - other than Reagan was to start wars all over the globe. Ceradyne claims with reason it is the result of the Arms Industry, while Beeno claims it is the result of the Globalists. I after studying the trends think there is a bit of truth in both.
As to the present media campaigns by most of the media there is a problem. After two years of bombardment of people about the Russians and the Trump election campaign the exact opposite became clear. The whole propaganda was started by the Obama Administration to avoid a Trump victory in 2016 because he said he is going to clean up the swamp in Washington and he definitely was anti the political establishment of both the Democratic and Republican Parties.
For that purpose the Obama Administration used people in Government Departments to do the dirty work. Politics has always been a dirty business and there is no real difference between what happened under the Obama Administration and what happened under Zuma. Based on the plan the Mueller Special Council operation was put in place and they spent two years investigation and they could find no evidence of Collusion between the Russians and Trump.
Zuma has been caught out by the media and in the end fell because of that, Was Obama as bad as Zuma - there are indications that he was and that the FBI thus far covered it up, There are present investigations that could uncover fraught and corruption under the Obama Administration of major proportions so he is not the saint every newspaper is trying to convince people of.
The present DP want to destroy the US Supreme Court who did a supreme job of keeping the Administration of various Presidents to the straight and the narrow insofar as the US Constitution is concerned. They are doing a sterling job - much like the SA Constitutional Court is doing.
That is not acceptable to the Democrats - they want the Courts to give the Government a free hand to do what they please and not being independent. That is the basis for the attack of Kavenaugh, That is the long and the short of the matter.
I obviously do not like what the DP wants to do. and what is happening is effectively undermining democracy and is a basis for future dictatorial purposes,
By the way crooks are generally cleverer than they are given credit for - Zuma is a crook and so is Obama and a bad one at that.