It has been without doubt one of the most divisive periods in modern memory in American history and during the past week it culminated into something of a farce.

You had the leader of the most powerful country in the world making ludicrous statements about election fraud in the places he was losing whilst ignoring the those states he had won.

We then had people supporting him because they could not face the fact that one may lose the election. There were several major news and online media who felt comfortable enough to relay his ideas because it was what their own readers and viewers wanted to hear.

Anywhere else this would have been seen as nothing more than propaganda.

It reminds me of the times we have some despot leader in some far-off country who simply doesn’t want to give up power and finds any reason whatsoever to cling on to the throne.

When this happens in other ‘third-world’ nations we are quick to take the moral high ground and talk of how great ‘how our own democracy is’.

It is these lowly corrupt nations that have issues with democracy, not us. These nations have a lot to learn a on how to govern and we are much more superior than them when it comes to holding our leaders to account.

If Donald Trump had made these comments as some South Asian leader, Russian, an African head of state or some Central American leader we would ridiculed and chastised him across the news networks.

As it is, despite the odd social media meme we treat him like some spoilt kid and laugh it off because we are embarrassed in some way that this guy actually made it all the way to top.

And for those you who are looking forward to seeing the back of Donald Trump, let me remind you of something - this could well be just the beginning.

If someone can say the kind of things he has said over a four-year period and still manage to poll more than 47 million votes then we are certainly not seeing the last of this type of politics.

I would say looking ahead it seems being racist and demeaning others can get you votes – this is sadly the way ahead.

Of course at this point I will be reminded that this is what people want and the whole freedom of speech thing. To which I would say because it is what some people might want to hear it does not mean you have to say it.