What's your thoughts on Trump?

[Zenith]

Sometimes the forest has to burn before something new can grown.

On a more pessimistic note, I'm thinking about the new trees that will grow: They may be completely rotten.

It suffices for Trump to become a full-fledged dictator, and USA may become screwed for more than 100 years.
Just look at any country who'se had a dictator or a series of dictators for the long haul: when "democracy" is finally established, they all turn to civil war and run a kind of democracy that shocks any sane man.

And that's because dictatorships twist the culture and the minds of the people. If Trump will become a true dictator and rule USA with an iron fist until he dies of age, you can be sure that all new generations who would live under Trump's administration will be indoctrinated into the new ways of thinking. Keep it for a few dozen years, and then when you establish back "real democracy", more than 50% of the people of those who lived in a dictatorship will have been tuned to vote for whoever politician speaks like Trump, laughs like Trump, smiles like Trump, talks to people like Trump does, and treats people the way Trump does. And they will indoctrinate their own children the same way.

Dictatorships and political regimes have the power to twist and ruin the minds of people for generations to come.

Let's all hope it will all end well.

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My father's family came from the Timisoara region. When it was Austro Hungarian. In WWII my father was drafted into the Romanian army. He deserted and found a save haven with his uncle in Budapest.

Funny that. I don't even know where I belong. I have so many places to choose from. This place of yours faced the butt end of the 20th century. I can relate in a certain way.

From what I have heard, I have, among others, Hungarian, Serbian, and possibly Gypsy roots. One grandmother was born in Budapest.

Anyway, the saddest thing that affects me is that... I feel powerless. There's virtually nothing I can do to make things better.

And then I look to Hungary, with their Viktor Orban. There's not much news coming from there, but it seems like they're not very different from us (expect, perhaps, doing better). Then I'm thinking about neighboring countries, which I hear, are doing worse as corruption goes, Bulgaria, Serbia, Albania, perhaps Greece. And if the propaganda with "Nazi" and the madness here didn't reach outside Romania, then I only wonder what could be going in those countries. And Ukraine, they must've experienced even worse problems if their government shot at them, and even more, their own russian ethnics (still, Ukrainian citizens) took up arms and killed their own countrymen.

I once believed that USA and EU and NATO could make this world a better place. But now I think, perhaps it was only an illusion. Perhaps the best thing one can do is to find a "haven", an island of freedom and happiness and live there in his own small bubble, no longer tuned to whatever is going on in this insane world. Perhaps this is the sanest thing to do.