Donald Trump is quite the line in the dirt between people during this election season. I have never heard such insane things coming from both sides in my entire life. Sure, I can circle back to when I was in high school, but this is a different ball game. What we're seeing now is almost like satire to the point where you could introduce Poe's Law -- not knowing if it's real or fake.
Having Bush run against Gore felt like a slam dunk for Gore until Florida botched it all. Then Nader's third-party bid helped dive the country into Hell for 8 years. If you don't think that Bush was a pretty bad president, all you have to do is look it up from a point of view of an outsider. What would an alien thing about the policies if the alien knew about humanity, but didn't care either way?
Even high school me knew that going into Iraq was stupid. However, there was 9/11. That tragedy put everyone in America into a tailspin:
Something bad happened, but then going to war with one country with false reasoning connected to the tragedy, and then go to war with the same reason, but it becomes pointless since the strategy was idiotic. The Taliban was a nightmare, but using 9/11 to attack them was a bad idea. Saddam is a crazy dictator, but using falsified information on WMD's to attack is criminal. Why not just use actual information gathered to bring them down. Saddam was a monster, and the Taliban was equally barbaric. The world would probably nod in agreement. The alien would look and think that it's too narrow of a position. What about the massacres and rape in many African places? What about North Korea having huge death camps and starving citizens? The alien would realize within a few minutes of knowing about the region that one has resources where the other does not.
Now, in 2016, we're stuck after having a pretty great President Obama in office for nearly 8 years. Was he perfect? No, but he also had his hands tied the entire time since being a black, liberal president got him a lot of NO when he would put forth a bill. It's gotten so bad that the guy he chose for the new Supreme Court Justice hasn't even been given a hearing even though most GOP members think he's a great choice. That's like turning down a pizza you love solely because the person who ordered it is someone you hate because of political reasons. You love the pizza, but why not eat it because of the guy who ordered it? It won't change the taste of the pizza for years to come, so what the hell?
What started as a joke has turned into a reality. Donald Trump is basically every descriptor for someone who is against basic human and civil rights. Every speech is filled with hate, evil, lack of facts, lack of a vocabulary past the 3rd grade, and basic lack of human decency. Every day comes with breaking news of something horrible he said. There is so much vitriol he has spewed in the past that it becomes daunting to document it all within an article. It would just be bullet points of each day where he said something baffling, and then the media covering it, and then Trump tweeting about bias even though the media just played the clip of things Trump said or tweeted on a loop all day.
What about Hillary? Well, to say she is the lesser of two evils is sadly a truth everyone has to get used to. If she were against any other candidate in this race, her e-mail and Wikileaks scandals would be a nail in her campaign's coffin. After everything came out, it wasn't really as bad as it seemed. As more comes out, it really doesn't seem that bad in comparison to just about everything Trump has said or did since he could learn how to talk. I would prefer Bernie Sanders over both, but since he is out, I guess Hillary is the less dangerous choice. I'd go for the "Won't Obliterate The World" option every time if that is what's given.
What would an alien do if it were given these two options? Well, the alien would probably ask why the hell the entire planet was separated so much and at war when it's just a piece of dust in the scheme of the universe. The alien would also ask why one candidate wanted to cause havoc while the other wants to try and keep everything together. If I'm the alien, I would bounce out of the solar system to a more civilized star.