REPUBLICAN candidate Donald Trump has been one of the most contentious presidential candidates that the world has ever seen. Brashness and vulgarity are his character traits. Trump has denigrated immigrants, the handicapped, Muslims and Mexicans; trashed all recent trade agreements and mounted a boisterous campaign claiming that President Obama was not born in the USA. Without any respect for the Constitution, Trump has insulted the presidential selection process by jumping into the fray without doing any ground work. Trump has boasted of grabbing women by their genitals; denigrated the NATO allies; praised the dictatorial president of Russia and encouraged him to hack Democratic Party emails. He even vowed to prosecute his campaign rival, Hillary Clinton if he is elected. Worse, he even threatened to curb the freedom of the press.
The belligerent right winger even dared to suggest that gun rights advocates might take the law into their own hands if Hillary Clinton were to win the presidential election. Trump has also tried to undermine America’s electoral system by expressing his distrust for the voting method and claiming that the election is so rigged in his country that if he loses the election he would refuse to accept the verdict of the people. Times without number Trump has lied blatantly on many issues – something that others before him had never done. The US and indeed the world is facing a huge technological shift which is redefining the meaning of work and the workplace. Government can help only to an extent. Whoever wins the elections will need to reduce the tensions within the country and enable every American to face the growing economic crises and enable then to cushion off the worst. The more Americans are divided, the more likely it is for the American dream to collapse.