Americans' anger at political process reaching boiling point, Analyst says

With nearly ten days remaining to the US presidential election, the two candidates are struggling with high-profile scandals. One is under fire for his sexual misconducts and the other is under scrutiny for using a private server to send work-related e-mails at the time she was Secretary of State. This comes as the recent polls show that Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are the two most unpopular presidential candidates in the United States in decades. The latest edition of Press TV's program 'The Debate' had two analysts share their viewpoints about the two controversial figures.

Frederick Peterson, a congressional defense policy advisor, refused to accept Trump as a real challenger on the road to the White House, arguing that the real-estate mogul has not gone through the due process to the nomination.

Mr. Trump comes from a place well outside the normal political process, Peterson underscored, adding that his rise to the position of representing one of the two major US political parties is not only unusual but also unprecedented in the American history.

“We are standing back with our jaws wide open here wondering how this happened. Where did Mr. Trump come from and what is it that he is touching in the American consciousness that is giving him huge enthusiasm and rallies among people many of whom have never engaged in the process before and who had turned cynical on the American process?” he exclaimed.

Peterson cautioned that the American people are reaching an unprecedented level of "uncomfortability" regarding the political system and the power elites who always try to manipulate the elections to secure their own benefits.

“This is reaching a boiling point. This election is utterly unprecedented, I believe, in the American history from many perspectives. And this is actually a fascinating thing to watch. And yet the consequences of this fascination would be something not only we the people, but America as a nation and the world, will live with for a long long time.”

Meanwhile, the other panelist, Rob Kall, the founding editor of Opednews.com, said that both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are horrible choices for the American people although Trump tries to portray himself as a rebellion who wants to stand against “the corrupted political system.”

“Trump is offering himself as not being part of the system. Hillary is an integral part of the system… We are in a very bad situation. People are scared. Trump seems to offer an answer. Between Trump and Hillary, we have horrible and awful choices and there is no good answer. But the reason that people are excited about Trump is because he is promising to break the system and the system needs to be broken,” Kall argued.

He also criticized the US media for being disloyal to their own people and turning a blind eye to the candidates such as Bernie Sanders who are not part of the system, but instead have great appeals for the masses.

“The mainstream media are tools of the corporations. They are tools of oligarchy. I don’t like to get to that kind of language but they are betraying the American people. They corrupted the election massively. The people who supported Bernie could see it every day,” Kall said.

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