Last night's debate a slug-fest, the two US parties have no real support

I missed the debates last night, since I wasn't feeling very well. But I realize now that I should have watched them. That's not because I thought anything major would change. It's not because I thought the candidates would clarify their stands on the issues. It is more like a Jerry Springer moment. It was less a civil debate and more a knock-down insult-fest.

The battle between these two represents the total deterioration of the US so called "democratic system." People chose Donald  Trump because he is an outsider to the Republican Party establishment. That party's establishment has hated their candidate all this time and yet he clearly won his party's nomination. The fact that voters chose Trump over the established candidates should tell the Republican Party that their message is bankrupt. Their ultra-conservative pro-business model was overtaken by the TV-savvy reality-programming Trump, who also happens to be a $ billionaire. And rich people are SUPPOSED to be the real heroes of the Republican Party culture.

And Clinton is the medium of the Democratic Party. Unlike her opponent in the primary, Bernie Sanders, who millennial voters rallied around, Clinton represents the most established politician of both this election and the last three. She represent the status quo more than any other president since Gerald Ford.

So what went wrong? How did this election produce the two most unpopular candidates in the entire 20th century? The system is finally feeding off of itself. The two parties are so out of touch with the public and their needs that they are incapable of producing real candidates who can really lead the public with any enthusiasm.

At some point, in the near future, the system has to examine why it is so broken down. Either that or the two ruling parties will have to face their demise. The best to come out of all of this is that the US will have to change or die. People are starting to question the direction of the two parities and they are not happy with the status quo at all. This could be the beginning of some serious change. We can only hope.

- សតិវ​អតុ 

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