The Return of the Dark Ages?
Spain has a prime minister with no charm, no wit, and no clarity of speech. He is the butt of jokes arising from his sputtering of mismatched sentences that make no sense. His conservative political party has driven this country to the brink of austericide , destroying social nets with every budgetary cutback mandated by the vultures in Brussels, so that our national deficit fits in neatly with the neoliberal virtues exalted by the 1%. Yet he and his party were the most voted in the last elections this past June. Call us stupid. Which is why most Spaniards are baffled and worried by Donald Trump. They are baffled that an orange-haired, foul-mouthed buffoon, who has never known what it is to be middle-class, let alone poor, has been chosen as the Republican candidate for the Presidency of one of the most powerful nations on earth. Looking at we have here, they are worried that Trump just might be elected. Every time he has opened his mouth and spit out racist rhetoric, or xenophobic p...