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race-to-the-white-house-another-step-into-the-unknown

Race to the White House: Another step into the unknown

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When driving home from the office last night, listening to the same David Bowie compilation CD that I seem unable to have ejected since January, I realised I was muttering along to the chorus of This Is Not America. I’m more of a Life on Mars or Sound and Vision kind of guy, but it struck a chord with me in those moments.

I found myself thinking about the race to the White House, the apparent mud-slinging battle that’s been waged for what feels like much of 2016, and the seeming dearth of more credible, dynamic candidates to run – and I thought to myself, this is not America, is it? What will the America of tomorrow look like?

I can’t help thinking we’re in an almost unprecedented period of uncertainty the world over, where extremism and anti-establishment uprisings are filling the void of progressive politics built on sound policies and reasoned thinking.

Maybe it has always been this way. Perhaps it is cyclical. If so, I’m thankfully young enough to have missed out on periods like these in the past; my first such experience was the largely unforeseen ‘Brexit’ here in the UK this summer. Concurrently there’s been the continued rise of Donald Trump through the political echelons, blazing a unique and capricious election trail that has succeeding in confounding many; Europe has repeatedly pondered the break-up of its once sacred Union as a result of the Brexit; and the balance of peace and power emanating from North Korea grows ever precarious.

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