Americans are voting for Trump in large part because: Some think he is going block Mexicans from coming to "take their jobs". Some think he will ban muslims thus make the country safer. etc etc. These are concerns among a large segment of the populace. And he has hoodwinked many. Unfortunately the democrats did not offer a strong candidate.

One thing about Americans is that they learn from their mistakes. So if Trump does'nt deliver, he will be out in 4 years and the republican party will take a beating at the next poll. Kenya never seems to learn anything. We keep voting the same corrupt ruling class.

A second aspect of America is that the system has checks and balances. The presidency, congress and the supreme court are on equal footing. So Trump will be kept in check. In Kenya we have nothing but impunity. Our leaders can do anything they want.

@Alba, America has been a democracy since 1776 when they got their independence, that is 240 years ago. Why compare us to them knowing far too well that we are only 53 years since independence.

Being Wealthy (High Standards of Living), Democracy, Modernity, Freedom are not always on the same side!

I have always wondered why "years of independence" is used as a yardstick for anything other than self determination... who nominated it as a yard stick for development? we wanted to be INDEPENDENT... to figure it out on our own. independence has nothing to do with development but rather self determination (or the illusion there of).

Wah, how a thread can mutate.
Unaangalia last post halafu unaangalia the title unafikiria umefungua wrong thread

Even the people who claims to be very sharp could not get a new candidate for the presidents except the wife of a former president!?
Nashangwazanga sana.

Even electing a son/daughter of a past president within a century baffles me.

why?

By the way I did exactly that. I wondered what is happening.

There are two problems with your statement:
1. We don't have to wait 240 years if there are good examples we can learn from now. I had a secondary school teacher who told us: "Experience teaches fools".
This means if we wait to learn from 240 years of experience instead of learning from present examples then we are fools.

2. Kenya is 50 years old now. I am certain that by the time America was 50 years old, they were a more mature democracy than we are now.

So your statement is lame on two counts.

But having a parliament with 54% women does not make Rwanda any better.

I will leave Rwanda aside and focus on Kenya. Our own CJ has described us as a nation run by bandits. If you criticize the government you risk being killed. Mass murderers never face the law. Public officials who loot millions get away with it. People who don't pay taxes get away with it. The cities are overcrowded, poorly planned. Constant power outages. Massive unemployment, flooding, insane traffic, 60% youth unemployment, insecurity, terrorism, porous borders, rampant tribalism, rampant examination leakage, poor schools, bad roads, high rate of road accidents crumbling or non-existent infrastructure, massive budget deficits, high interest rates, massive corruption at every level, ...........

And after all this people want to point a finger at the USA eti they are electing Trump?

Maybe Americans feel that they have the luxury of electing Trump because he will not ruin what they already have. I mean lets face it, Bush ruined Iraq but America is not really affected. So Americans don't really care about what Bush did because the country is strong enough to absorb the shocks.

But as I stated above, Americans are voting Trump because they think he will address some of the most pressing issues they have .e.g. immigration and islamization.

So we need to stop comparing ourselves with America. Its like a sick person who never sees a doctor pointing to a healthy person saying: "well if he never sees a doctor then neither am I".............