U.S. Elections: Red Light in Cuba

The New Herald published a very significant article regarding the sort of elections that will take place in the United States.  

The article was published this Sunday July 26 and was signed by Ramón A. Mestre, in Miami.

The author called it: "Of electoral polls and cats hairdressers."

He remembers a phrase he who has nothing to do, better combs cats", and he mentions how the overall electoral tasks are for the presidency.

He stresses that long before the 2016 elections; editors begin to disclose findings of polls that "frequently their own media negotiate."

They try to justify that shallowness, - explains Mestre - alleging that they are an example of an important “electoral coverage”.

Apparently, he adds, surveys always measure with accuracy the opinion of voters.

He also bares the essence of such masquerades: there is not trial for postures, ideas, administrations, achievements, failures neither contradiction.

The article highlights that when a candidate without good perspectives is placed at the head, then it receives an exaggerated attention in the media.

And Mestre vouches for this with the case of the republican hothead multimillionaire Donald Trump.

"An arrogant jester, Hispanic-phobic, insolent, with a special talent for real estate business and self-promotion."

According to The Washington Post and the ABC network, this racist dinosaur occupies the first place among the 16 candidates to the presidency of the Republican Party.

The jester, as the article calls him again, is backed by the 24% of voters of his party.

Even experts don’t rule out today the possibility that he becomes an "independent" presidential candidate.    

U.S. analysts point that, despite everything, Trump stands out in the unusual multitude of republican candidates.

It’s really striking the fact that he uses a harsh, vulgar, primary speech, mainly when referring to the Mexican immigrants.

Those postures, including the one touching Mexicans, "undoubtedly attracts the xenophobic of his party."

However, how “high” can get the total number of republican voters who don’t support Trump?

The answer comes to a certain degree in a poll of the important newspaper The Wall Street Journal, when locating those who disapprove of him in a 66%.

Ramón A. Mestre affirms that with that level of rejection “elections are not won”.

But also, a close insult sent against Senator John McCain reminded his sustained escape from the military service.

The press of Washington wrote that, while McCain participated in the aggression war against Vietnam, Trump was “consecrated to enjoying a happy life in the Manhattan of the late 60’s."

For more than half century the propagandistic machinery of United States has put under attack the Cuban electoral system.

They are deadly right about some things.

Never a figure like Donald Trump would have had space in it, not even in a municipality.

He would never be allowed to manifest ideas of hatred against Mexicans neither against other immigrants.

In any moment somebody with those features could have been eligible to be presidential candidate, much less with a lead.

Nobody would have thought of giving privileged places in the media to someone so extremely unpopular.

It is accepted, for such behavior, values and thinking is not electoral freedom in Cuba, but it is in the United States.