From all the reports I’ve read Donald Trump won the Presidency because people wanted a change from the insider politics of Washington. The more offensive he was, the more bigoted and misogynist his public statements, the more he turned his back on mainstream policies. the more he reinforced his standing as an outsider and so increased his support. Throughout this process people found an outlet for their deeply felt but undefined dissatisfaction.
And so we’re left with a man in the most powerful office in the world who has no experience in politics, commands the most powerful armed force in the world yet has no military experience, thinks climate change is a hoax, wants to launch protectionist trade wars, has little interest in the economic and military security of the world, and whose solution to the global refugee crisis is to literally put up walls and withdraw. All this was ignored because he was an outsider. He didn’t, for example, receive one question on climate change during the debates. Yet when the euphoria of his victory dies down it is real policies addressing real problems that will count.
Who knows? Perhaps he will rise to the occasion and surprise us all. Given his campaign was a policy vacuum his vacillations suggest that in many areas his ideas are unformed. If he appoints good advisors and a strong cabinet he has the chutzpah to reverse position and implement good policy. On the other hand, we may just be left with an erratic billionaire narcissist. I pray that it is the former rather than the latter.
From a people watching psychology point of view it is very fascinating……..if only it was a movie and not real life …….now the whole world is waiting and watching.
THE FBI ROBBED CLINTON OF THE PRESIDENCY
Andris Heks 11.11.2016
There was just about a consensus among election experts that Clinton’s lead in the presidential race was beyond Trump’s reach, until Comey, the Republican FBI Chief dropped the bombshell of the reopening of the Clinton investigation for possible national security violations.
But from the moment of the breath taking torpedoing of the Clinton boat just 11 days before the election day by the Republican FBI Chief, the Clinton boat was fatally damaged and was taking in water ever more rapidly with the momentum of the sinking accelerating to a maximum, right on the very election day. The reason why most of the analysts missed the fatal electoral consequences of this sabotage was precisely because the exponential damage reached its decisive climax only in the very last moment-on the election day. The political intervention by the Republican FBI Chief could not have been timed more perfectly to guarantee the bringing down of Clinton. This happened in two ways.
One was, in turning away potential Clinton supporters from voting. Secondly, shifting the balance of the swinging voters, dramatically away from Clinton.
Until the FBI coup, Clinton managed to maintain, however tenuously, the image of greater integrity than Trump amongst the vast majority of the voters. But the ominous reopening of the investigation even against the advice of the Justice Department to the FBI Chief, right when the voting process has already begun, destroyed Clinton to the swinging voters as a person who staked her claim to the Presidency by walking the moral High Road as distinct from Trump’s gutter tactics.
Although there is clear evidence that the FBI has been implicated in the overthrow of many foreign governments, this is the first instance when a Republican FBI director publicly staged a coup d’atat against a near certain Democratic win of the Presidency of the USA and he has actually succeeded with the overthrow!