Presidential thoughts.

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.