Democracy Gone Astray

Democracy, being a human construct, needs to be thought of as directionality rather than an object. As such, to understand it requires not so much a description of existing structures and/or other related phenomena but a declaration of intentionality.
This blog aims at creating labeled lists of published infringements of such intentionality, of points in time where democracy strays from its intended directionality. In addition to outright infringements, this blog also collects important contemporary information and/or discussions that impact our socio-political landscape.

All the posts here were published in the electronic media – main-stream as well as fringe, and maintain links to the original texts.

[NOTE: Due to changes I haven't caught on time in the blogging software, all of the 'Original Article' links were nullified between September 11, 2012 and December 11, 2012. My apologies.]

Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Former Mexican President Vicente Fox Lets Loose On ‘Hated Gringo’ And ‘Ugly American’ Donald Trump

Donald Trump likes giving nicknames to his enemies, but now he’s got a couple of his own.

“He is the ugly American,” former Mexican president Vicente Fox said in an interview on the Kickass Politics podcast. “He is the hated gringo because he’s attacking all of us. He’s offending all of us.”

Fox also repeated his opinion of Trump’s proposed border wall.

“I’m not going to pay for that fucking wall,” Fox told host Ben Mathis. “And please don’t take out the ‘fucking’ full word.”

Although the interview will be released on Tuesday, it was recorded before Fox apologized for using the same phrase regarding the wall in the past.

“If I offended you, I’m sorry,” Fox said last week in a Breitbart interview. “But what about the other way around?”

In the Kickass Politics conversation, Fox was anything but apologetic. He called the presumptive Republican presidential nominee “crazy” and a “false prophet,” and compared him to Latin American demagogues who “destroy economies.” He also said some of Trump’s proposals could lead to war.

“Don’t play around with us,” Fox said. “We can jump walls. We can swim rivers. And we can defend ourselves.”

Original Article
Source: huffingtonpost.com/
Author: Ed Mazza

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