WE ARE approaching 5 November – when American Democracy comes to ‘glorious fruition,’ with the election once more of an old guy as president. And if Donald Trump isn’t elected as president, he is sure to kick up a storm, another bonfire to add to his and America’s vanities. There may be trouble ahead. More civil unrest. Is America coming apart at the seams? Meanwhile the world can only look on aghast as the American presidential electoral process rumbles to its troubling and questionable conclusion.