I
realise that in the wake of the recent Presidential election in the
USA, there has been an awful lot of writing, commenting, discussion
and so on. I am a little hesitant to add to that pile, as in a few
months it will probably all be forgotten. However, I just want to
make my feelings clear, for anyone who may be interested.
Firstly,
I am very, very happy that Clinton lost the election. She is a
corrupt and criminal individual who must never be allowed near power.
The
media around this election has been a disgrace, an absolute disgrace.
They built up a very specific narrative, based on no evidence, that
Trump was a fascist clown and that Clinton was almost a goddess. No
questions were ever put to Clinton about the heap of evidence that
reveals her rottenness, and yet any small thing that could cast Trump
in a bad light, no matter how old, or how minor, was blown up out of
all proportion.
I
don’t, particularly, have any great hope in Trump. On the whole I
regard politicians as a necessary irritation, best avoided. And I
seriously think that Trump will find the realities of formal
political power daunting.
However,
I am still pleased that he won, and not Clinton.
Like
Brexit (which I would have voted for, but could not as I have not
lived in the UK for more than 15 years) this was an expression of the
wishes and hopes and frustrations of perfectly decent, ordinary,
people who have just had enough of being ignored, talked down, and
treated with contempt
The
ordinary everyday people who run the shops, work in the factories,
clean up the trash, make sure that the electricity and water systems
work and so on, have had enough. The have had enough of identity politics and
the relentless focus on ethnicity, gender and religious belief that
splits and divides people into smaller and smaller groups that then
argue about who is most privileged and who is most oppressed. They
are tired of the new forms of racism and sexism produced by their
so-called betters. You’d better not be white, and god knows don’t
be male!!!!!!!!
They
are tired of the way in which every damn thing becomes an argument
about race, or gender, or ethnicity or whatever, that continually
splits people into groups.
They
have had enough of cultural relativism and mass immigration. Yes,
they feel that their way of life is threatened and, by god, looking
around the mess that is Europe now who can blame them?
These
ordinary people who get up, go to work, save up, buy a house, raise a
family under conditions of increasing economic pressure and social uncertainty, of course they are frustrated and angry.
They
cannot trust their politicians any more, they cannot trust the media
any more, they cannot even trust the education system any more and
when one looks at the bizarre antics of so called cultured people and
what is actually taught these days again, who can blame them?
And thank god it is Trump. The cultural warriors of the left have created a situation open to exploitation by some really frightening political movements.
This
is in danger of turning into a formless rant so I will wind up. Other
people, good people, have said all this and said it better than I
have.
The
ordinary people have spoken, they have spoken for freedom from the
continuous micro management of their lives by intellectual idiots.
And for that, I am very, very grateful.
