{"id":9843,"date":"2016-07-30T10:57:57","date_gmt":"2016-07-30T10:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=9843"},"modified":"2016-08-06T12:36:40","modified_gmt":"2016-08-06T12:36:40","slug":"this-election-is-not-just-democrat-vs-republican-it-is-normal-vs-abnormal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/this-election-is-not-just-democrat-vs-republican-it-is-normal-vs-abnormal.html","title":{"rendered":"This election is not just Democrat vs. Republican. It is normal vs. abnormal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">USA Election: This election is not just Democrat vs. Republican. It is normal vs. abnormal<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The conventions held at Cleveland and Philadelphia showed that this is something different and defies a moment where our normal understanding of political system, of a split between the two major political beliefs. When we speak of of American politics, It\u2019s <strong>Democrats versus Republicans<\/strong>, liberals versus conservatives, left versus right.<br \/>\nThis year\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/category\/politics\/elections\"><strong>USA Presidential Election<\/strong><\/a>, is different. Its more fundamental: Its between a normal political party that has nominated a normal presidential candidate, and the abnormal political party with a abnormal presidential candidate.<br \/>\nThe DNC was a normal political party\u2019s convention which nominated Hillary Clinton, a longtime party member with deep experience in government. Clinton was endorsed by Bernie Sanders- the runner-up in the primary and Barack Obama, the sitting president. Various Democratic luminaries gave speeches endorsing Clinton by name and criticized the other party\u2019s nominee. Not those divisions didn\u2019t exist, they did as in any <strong>Political party<\/strong>.<br \/>\nRepublicans held an abnormal convention and nominated an abnormal candidate, <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>, a new member with literally no experience in government. Ted Cruz, the runner-up in the primary, refused to endorse Trump in his primetime speech, and instead told Americans to &#8220;<strong>vote your conscience<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;Couldn&#8217;t have said it better!&#8221; \u2014David Duke, former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, on Donald Trump&#8217;s RNC speech <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nt355hYBQb\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/nt355hYBQb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HillaryClinton\/status\/757307608097325061\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 24, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nThe prospective first lady\u2019s speech had a\u00a0plagiarized\u00a0passage from the <strong>Democratic Party\u2019s first lady<\/strong>. Trump surprisingly missed the first night of his own convention by doing a phone interview with Fox News and an\u00a0hour-long discussion with the Golf Channel.<br \/>\nHe distracted his running mate\u2019s acceptance speech, when told of his intention of, him not wanting to automatically honor America\u2019s commitments under NATO treaty.<br \/>\nTrump\u2019s speech was enthusiastically endorsed by David Duke, the former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. &#8220;<strong>Couldn\u2019t have said it better<\/strong>,&#8221; he\u00a0tweeted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">His Self destructive behavior didn\u2019t end with the convention. The next day, Trump goes to press stating, Ted Cruz\u2019s father was likely involved in the JFK Assassination plot and swore he wouldn\u2019t accept Cruz\u2019s endorsement even if it were offered, and argued that the National Enquirer deserved a Pulitzer Prize.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9848 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/hillary-trump.jpg\" alt=\"USA election \" width=\"234\" height=\"156\" \/>Trump has been critizied by his own party for\u00a0racist comments, attacks on the judiciary, undermining the NATO alliance, for\u00a0inviting foreign governments to meddle in <strong>American elections<\/strong> just hours after his running mate, Mike Pence, had\u00a0warned\u00a0of &#8220;<strong>serious consequences<\/strong>&#8221; if Russia truly was behind the DNC hack.<br \/>\nThis election puts Republicans in a hard position. It was never a between a normal candidate and an abnormal one, it\u2019s also between a liberal candidate and a, well, conservative one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Michael Bloomberg, the former Republican mayor of New York City, put it simply in a speech endorsing Clinton. &#8220;<strong>Together, let&#8217;s elect a sane, competent person, This is not a man with the temperament, the steadiness, or the discipline to be president<\/strong>\u201d.<br \/>\nShould he win, we have no idea of the democratic boundaries he would respect, the conspiracy theories he would believe, which political enemies he would punish, which of the treaties would be honored. None of this is okay. None of it is normal. <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> is an abnormal political candidate<br \/>\nFrom nation governed by norms, not by just laws. Our political parties are expected to hold, certain standards in terms of the candidates they nominate, the behaviors they accept, the ideas they mainstream. Trump violates those standards. By indulging him, the Republican Party is normalizing him and his behavior, and made itself abnormal.<br \/>\n<strong>It would take a long time for the Republicans to undo the damages done by their choice of a presidential nominee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background:  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px #bd081c; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/this-election-is-not-just-democrat-vs-republican-it-is-normal-vs-abnormal.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Election: This election is not just Democrat vs. Republican. 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