Dear Friend and Reader:
It’s political season in the U.S. of A. Unlike most countries, where they get in and out of the elections, here in the States we have an endless phase of quarter finals, semi-finals, demi-finals, playoffs, and finally, the final finals.. The presidential race goes on for two years, with many hundreds of millions of dollars changing hands.
The Happy Man himself.
I’ve been watching both of the primary races develop, with genuine fascination. There are many elements that, if not new, are legitimately interesting.
That Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders came out on top of the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday is worth comment; and last night, during the recording of Planet Waves FM, I figured out how it shows up in the astrology.
Though I cannot stomach Donald Trump (it must be his particular shade of orange), I understand the anger and frustration that’s driving his candidacy. People are pissed off. Rage is a crackling, burning undercurrent of American life. That explains the guns, the road rage, the misogyny, the racism and the Tea Party.
On the Republican side, Trump is running against a field of, well, pallid, unoriginal liars. I can’t believe anyone takes any of them seriously, so on one level it makes sense that Trump is appealing to the most people. I do get the chills every time I hear or read “Let’s Make America Great Again” — for fluorescent-tinted alleged billionaires like him.
