The most interesting election in my lifetime is now behind us, and we're watching a transition get under way. There has been lots of interesting speculation on talk radio, the newspapers, internet forums, and the foreign press. Some folks are looking at at what went wrong, while others are trying to figure out what went right. Why did Trump win? I've touched on it in my previous entry, but I want to expound on this further. Here are the reasons why, in no particular order.
(1) Hillary Clinton wasn't exactly likeable. Ever since she became prominent in 1992, half the country has hated her. Books I've read on 1980s Arkansas politics strongly suggest she wasn't exactly well liked there either. When the rest of the nation knew about her, there was a lot of chatter about her being Co-President. I remember a conversation with a taxi driver in Rome that took place in 1995, who made a snide remark about "Presidente Hillary". So, even the Europeans could see right through her.
(2) Serial betrayal of their base by the Republican Establishment. For years we heard their message that if we would just give them a chance, we would get a lot of great results. They promised us conservative judges. We got David Souter on the Supreme Court, and a Harriet Miers nomination. They promised us a secure border. They tried to join forces with the Democrats and force "amnesty" down our throats instead. They said they would defend the Constitution, and instead we got the Senate Majority leader Trent Lott saying that talk radio ran the country and that something needed to be done about that. It got well past the point to where they could be trusted, much less given credibility. All members of the Republican Establishment wanted President Obama to "succeed", and many of them voted for Hillary.
(3) Widespread hate for Organized Media and a repudiation of their way of thinking. Rush Limbaugh calls them the "drive-bys"; I call them "Organized Media" and have for years as that it connotates a sinister purpose like the term "Organized Crime" does. Organized Media talks down to us. They act like they are visionary, that they know what's best for us, that we're just a bunch of stupid uneducated dumptrucks who need our freedoms taken away since we don't know how to properly use them.
They are in meltdown over this election. They are also in denial. You have Van Jones telling CNN that this was a "whitelash", which is a cheap shot and an attempt to suggest that there was a racial component involved in supporting Trump. He has to know that this is a cheap shot, but he runs with it; CNN lets him run with it, and they arrogantly think that we're too stupid to figure all of this out.
I despise Organized Media, they are the ones misusing their freedoms. In spite of that statement, I honestly want them to continue going down this road in the hopes that more of the masses will wake up to what they're doing.
(4) Trump connected to the people. No, he didn't connect to that part of the country that voted for Hillary, but he connected to that part of the country that counted. I wasn't on board his train at the start. I voted for someone else in the primary. I wasn't sure he was for real. He is still technically an unknown quantity to me, but I found that preferable to a known evil, and that's why I voted for him.
Now I want him to make America great again.
(5) The country has been heading on the wrong direction, and you'd have to be stoned on marijuana to not be aware of this. Really, are millions of more Americans on food stamps going in the right direction? Home ownership at a 51 year low an improvement? Well, that would be seen as an improvement by those who think that the State should own all property and distribute it as they see fit, but in my mind that view can only be seriously entertained by those who think they are entitled to assets that they were too lazy to earn.
(6) Multinational trade agreements are much more of an issue than Organized Media and the fatass politicians realize. Now personally, I think a free trade agreement between the United States and Canada makes a lot of sense. Standard of living of the two nations is practically on par. NAFTA? There is no doubt that Mexico is still a developing country, and if she would make proper use of her resources and rid herself of institutionalized corruption, she would be a great asset to a trade pact.
Mexico's not there yet.
(7) This was a repudiation of the Obama agenda. Trump won the primary because his supporters knew that Jeb wouldn't fix it, and Rubio wasn't going to stop. Jeb was proud of the similarity of stances that he had to Hillary, and Rubio was fixated on shoving "amnesty" down our throats. We didn't want more of the same! We wanted it to end!
(8) Big Hollywood actors threatening to leave the country. We heard this in 2000, and they didn't leave. We heard it again in 2004, and we gave them another reason to leave. We were hearing it again this time around.
Well what the hell were we supposed to do? Give in to these Hollywood millionaires and beg them to stay? Do they really think that the rest of us are just as stupid as their fans who fawn all over them?
This time, will you just shut the firetruck up and make good on your promise? Leave, and don't come back!
If I think about it long enough, I could come up with some more reasons, but I think I will instead observe our sorry-ass Organized Media wring their hands and moan about how the rest of us (that is, the real world) just doesn't get it.
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