The Entrenched Culture of Corruption

HOTEL CALIFORNIA You can check out any time out like, But out can never leave! Most people watched the Presidential Election Campaign in the US unfold with mounting horror. It lasted almost eighteen months. The world saw a vindictive, ill-educated, over-privileged, racist misogynist inflict himself on everyone that got in his way and took comfort in the belief that he would be kicked to the curb within the first few months. But he wasn’t. Where others fell by the wayside for their ineptitude and anti-social attitudes and behaviours, Trump surged ahead. The media couldn’t figure it out, or had been bought off by Trump to focus on his rivals while any story critical of him and his campaign remained mostly background or quickly vanished. The world was stunned that a man who had demonstrated ineptitude and corruption in business dealings, had insulted women, had allegedly defrauded associates, underpaid employees, and sexually assaulted women, was able to run for office at all...

BYE-BYE MISS AMERICAN PIE A long long time ago I can still remember how That music used to make me smile  T he US election results shocked the world. Most of us were well aware of US hypocrisy, the failure to uphold its ideologies. We could see what too many in the US refused to acknowledge. We had watched as the systemic failures and other issues became problems, untended, concealed, enabled, escalating. We were stunned that the Home Mortgage scheme could ever have been allowed to occur. We were well aware of the flaws of unregulated Capitalism, of self-regulation and internal investigations. We could see the conflict of interest. We watched as millionaires and billionaires were elected into office with the funding from others of their ilk. We could see how far too many of those so-called political representatives were insulated from reality by their wealth and circumstances. It was obvious that they were morally and ethically bankrupt. They could not possibly hope to u...