The American election over and the pendulum has swung ... The American form of government is stated as: Government for the people by the people .. but lately has become: Government for the elite by the elite.
This was painfully evident in the last couple of weeks of the democratic campaign where they paraded pop stars, movie stars, and sports stars across the stage performing for and pledging their support for Hillary. Trump joked, there's no guitars, just me :-) Hillary's primary group of supporters were white college graduates. It turns out that blacks and Hispanics did not turn out in the numbers required to seize the day.
I am impressed that American women decided it was preferable to have a better future for their children than having a flawed woman as president. They saw the future and seeing their children stuck in part-time low paying jobs working as baristas and waiters and waitresses did not appeal to them.
So now America has an ADDH male as president who despite being a mostly self funded billionaire, claims to have the common person's back in the American political system. There is no doubt that Trump is not politically correct and speaks what he thinks, but at least that is better than the calculated spin that the democratic party has served up as policy over the past 8 years.
Over the past month, the democratic party has been shooting the messenger rather than addressing the message. It does not matter if it be the FBI or wiki leaks. The FBI participated in partisan cronyism and Wikileaks is part of a Russian conspiracy. Not once did they address the content of the message. Deny, deny, deny is the democratic mantra.
Trump is not stupid. He knows the bad guy in reality TV shows is often the most popular and the media loved the bad guy image and were all to happy to bash and exploit Trump to add to their ratings. They played into his hands and saved him buckets of money in advertising. They sure changed their tune quickly during the actual voting.
I think Trump will be different and less of a loose cannon now that he is president elect. This election was about change and change the American people will get. I think the average American will have more of a voice in government and Trump would be smart to add Bernie Sanders to his inner cabinet and help bridge the divide between the two parties.
We live in interesting times ...
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It's been a day of amazement. President Trump, wow ! Agreed that he will probably moderate himself better now that he has the job.
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