Question: If you were American who would you
vote for?
Zizek: Trump.
I am horrified at him.
I’m just thinking that Hillary is the true
danger.
Why?
She built an impossible all-inclusive coalition.
Look, the one point when I fully agreed with
Trump was, you remember, when Bernie Sanders
endorsed Hillary?
He said, Trump – wasn’t it simply true?
– he said it’s like somebody from Occupy
Wall Street endorsing Lehman Brothers.
In every society there is a whole network
of unwritten rules, how politics works, and
how you build consensus.
Trump disturbed this.
And if Trump wins, both big parties, Republicans
and Democrats would have to return to basics,
rethink themselves, and maybe some things
can happen there.
That’s my desperate, very desperate hope,
that if Trump wins…
Listen, America is still not a dictatorial
state, he will not introduce fascism.
But it will be a kind of big awakening.
New political processes will be set in motion,
will be triggered.
But I am well aware that things are very dangerous
here, not only all this white supremacy groups…
But listen, Trump openly said – and as an
opportunist he will probably do it – you
know how important in United States the Supreme
Court is, he’s already said he will nominate
right-wingers.
So there are dangers.
I’m just afraid that Hillary stands for
this absolute inertia, the most dangerous
one!
Because she is a cold warrior, and so on,
connected with banks, pretending to be socially
progressive.
