Ted Cruz is Canadian. And he scares me.

Ted Cruz is in my opinion Canadian.  At one point he had dual citizenship.  He has renounced his Canadian citizenship, but this means nothing.  Americans are not allowed to have dual citizenship, period.  Go try to become a citizen of another country and try to remain United States citizen, just try to do it and see what happens  This means that Cruz is Canadian and he should not be allowed to run for United States President.  Yet he seems to have quite a great deal of financial backing to skirt the law.

It is just like the rich elite to want show off how the law does not apply to them.  They are special and they want to get a Canadian in as President just to show how powerful they really are.  

Another thing that bothers me about Ted Cruz aside from this ultra-right-wing agenda is that he is very disturbing to look at.  He is very uncharismatic in my opinion.  While running for President is not a beauty contest, a Presidential candidate should have a certain commanding yet comforting presence.  Cruz just gives me the heebie jeebies.  I cannot see how right-wing supporters can look at him and say, oh this is the guy I want running this country, but I guess he is telling them what they want to here in order to get their financial support.  The appeal is there for them, but I just don't see it.

There are lawsuits against Cruz trying to stop him from running because of his past Canadian citizenship, he should not have the right to.  I am just amazed that this would not scare financial backers away, because he may not be a viable candidate.  Trump has the right to sue him, but hasn't done it yet.  Perhaps he is afraid it will backfire and make Cruz some sore of right-wing martyr.

Ironically, if Cruz becomes President, I think a lot of Americans are going to want move to Canada, but I doubt the Canadians will want to let us in. I hope someone will stop Ted Cruz, because I think that even if Trump wins the Republican party will not let the delegates vote for him at the Republican convention.  And if my theory is correct, Trump will only run as an independent if Hilary wins the Democratic nomination.  

I hope in the end the lawsuits challenging Cruz's right to run for President will eventually do him in as a viable candidate.  

  

Those annoying ads from Thomas Peterffy.

During the presidential election campaign, we were bombarded by ads from billionaire Thomas Peterffy telling us how bad things were in the socialist country of Hungary where he was born, and how we had to get Mitt Romney into office because along with making the rich poorer, socialism would make poor poorer as well.  He allegedly spent eight million dollars of his own money on this message, which I am sure was chump-change for him.

The only problem is that Hungary did not really have a socialist system.  They were under control by a Soviet military dictatorship pretending to be communism. 

Peterffy fails to mention in his ads the success of Norway's socialist democracy, and that Norwegians enjoy a better standard of living than Americans do. 

What I really would like to see is a study of Scandinavian socialist countries and what makes it work for them, and why can't we make socialism work in the United States.  The corporate controlled media seems to steer clear of this topic.  There also doesn't appear to be any American based academics interested in this topic.  I think Norway's socialist policies could be applied to the United States, and our employment situation and quality of life would improve greatly.

Of course Thomas Peterffy is only interested in hanging on to his billions, and not interested in helping the masses.  For the wealthy there is no common good.  Common is bad, and only rich is good. 

There is also the problem that President Obama's policies are far from socialist which probably helped get him re-elected.

Don't worry Thomas Peterffy you will have plenty of money for the rest of your life.  Instead of warning Americans about how bad socialism is, why don't you go back to Hungary and straighten things out there.  I think they could use your help, once the Soviets withdrew from Hungary things only got worse economy-wise for them.  I am sure that you could show them just how great the capitalist system is and how it can work for them.  Good luck.