Healthy Politics

How about we create a story out of nothing.

Hillary Clinton has pneumonia. Okay. That’s tough. Especially as she is in the middle of a campaign. But it is just pneumonia. She is being treated. She will recover. Let’s face it,, apart from the President, she is probably pretty high up the list of those who will receive the best treatment at a moment’s notice.

Although there seems to be an aversion in the political discourse to take more than a perfunctory examination of the situation before ‘end-of-days’ statements are made by over-enthusiastic news outlets, a quick internet search will reveal that, with the possible exception of Obama, every US president had medical issues of varying severity and diversity.

Difficult though it may be to grasp with some of those involved now or in the past, these are human beings, which means they will always be at the mercy of human frailties. What should be more worrying is the moral deficiencies evident in past presidents, and one potential future incumbent.

None of this is to do with illness, and all to do with gender. I am sure, even when they give the name to the disease that manifests as a bright orange idiot, Trump would never be on the receiving end of the ‘health’ mania that has erupted.

Hillary Clinton is a woman. Therefore she is not as strong as a man, even an orange one. Of course the media cannot state that as an acceptable idea, but they are more than happy to do the misogynist’s job for them by pounding out the ‘news’ in mile high letters. That way no-one has to say it. But we all understand, don’t we?

When will we get to a point where politics is taken seriously again? Not dull, not boring, but serious. This is our lives at stake here, more so than with any other presidential race. This is a choice between sanity and lunacy, not who can stomp around the country on a ridiculously extended road-fest with nothing to do with the election and everything to do with media pandering.

So, Hillary has pneumonia. She will recover. If elected she will have the best medical care in the world. But until that happens how about at least the UK media tries to concentrate on a more rational examination of the US election, rather than a temporarily impaired lung function.