On February 19th, the public intellectual, novelist, essayist, and semiotician, Umberto Eco died in Milan. While the rest of the world has mourned the loss of rock star David Bowie, Eco's death meant the loss of one of our intellectual rock stars, a man who was as comfortable discussing Barbie as he was explaining the aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas. It was Eco who insisted that a "fundamental" reading of a text—an approach espoused by Antonin Scalia, for example—was of little use when trying to understand books. "Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means." (How different Italy's intellectual giant from the man who insisted the Constitution means exactly what it meant when it was first written—by rich, white slave-owners).
Comment: The main difference between Trump and Killary is that Trump is bombastic, overt, and in-your-face - he's an easy target. Killary is covert, slick, and underhanded. Psychopaths know how to say the right things in order to manipulate people. It's hard to tell who's really more dangerous, even if one seems more dangerous on the surface. Overall, Killary's track record and her ties to the Western elite indicate she is their pick for Puppet in Chief. Trump may have even been set up as a red-herring, to appear so crazy and scary that many will be corralled into thinking Killary is the sane one, when in reality, she's the one with the most blood on her hands.
What it comes down to is this: no matter who wins, that person was meant to win - they were not elected but selected by the corporatocracy (the banking cartels and military industrial complex). American fascism is a new breed of fascism, much more difficult to identify, and no matter who "wins" the (s)election, we will get more fascism, more war, more chaos. Pick your poison.