Updates on the election for those of us...

[abaris]

People have turned away from centrism and that's why you start to see extremes on left and right.

I hope you don't consider Bernie Sanders to transport extremes on the left. Otherwise I would be hard pressed to see any extreme left in the USA and very little of that in Europe, by the way.

When it comes to extremism, the right has more or less a monopoly on that today. Things looked differently in the 70ies and early 80ies in Europe, but never in the USA.

As far as corrupt politicians are concerned. I subscribe to that thought. If someone is only able to run a campaign by accepting massive amounts of money from the corporate world, the wishes of their general electorate will take the backseat in comparison to the donors. That is a form of corruption. At the very least it says that most poliicians arent real repreentatives of the people.