I got to know many Americans doing my job and reporting to a Wall Street trading unit of my company. Spent lots of timein NY. I developed a lot of respect for my US colleagues who really impressed me with their brains, their business acumen, their hard work and their enterprising spirit. Some equity traders and purveyors of financial products have taken a lot of grief since the 2008 financial meltdown and rightfully so, but the majority were and remain very risk averse as far as their p/ls are concerned.
Over the past year or so I must admit to losing a lot of respect for Americans and America. When roughly 38% of the electorate support a blatant and dangerous carnival barker for the worlds most powerful position you know there is something deeply and perhaps irremidiably wrong with them.
I do feel sorry for and commiserate with those who see their electoral process and priceless democratic institutions trashed by an irresponsible and mindless vulgarian. That includes respectable conservative Republicans ie not the Trump surrogates, who are perhaps witnessing the disintegration of the GOP. The party of Lincoln is now the party of a clown. Big come down.
Over the past year or so I must admit to losing a lot of respect for Americans and America. When roughly 38% of the electorate support a blatant and dangerous carnival barker for the worlds most powerful position you know there is something deeply and perhaps irremidiably wrong with them.
I do feel sorry for and commiserate with those who see their electoral process and priceless democratic institutions trashed by an irresponsible and mindless vulgarian. That includes respectable conservative Republicans ie not the Trump surrogates, who are perhaps witnessing the disintegration of the GOP. The party of Lincoln is now the party of a clown. Big come down.





