I would encourage everyone to enjoy Trumps victory
Especially from the view of the people who suffered most from the economical globalisation as embodied by all the Clintons of modern capitalism, as there are the rost belt victoms in their abandoned neighbourhoods, the farmers who can't get rid of their products anymore, the medium-sized enterprises and local shop holders, etc.
The hate against Washington, being the Democrats as well as the Republicans, is deep, and Trump offers a new hope to get a better life, if not for them selves then still for their children. The American Dream, yes.
Yet, the notorious conspiracy lovers on this forum, as constantly poked by unguided projectile and romantic fantasist Nestor and kept militant by the all knowing but totally biased Garyb,
perform a fundamentally different struggle here: that of hatred against
any government (above sheriff level), accomplished by unproven game-like fantasies of mega masterplans of the ultimate Elite.
Trump's victory may satisfy your feelings of revanche, but it still is a different struggle, and some of you might know that.
Trump is the new president of the United States, not the local sheriff.
To expect a real improvement of the economical position of the losers of the globalisation from the president of the US is a gotspe if you're a conspiracy believer, a contradictio in terminis so to say.
Which brings us to the question if Trump will be able to improve the economical situation of the deprived class, if willing at all...
Personally, from a psychological point of view, I think Trump is a handy narcist with a gifted ability to know how to impress his audience to make it buy his product, being himself.
Now that he's chosen as the great Saviour, let's see what he might get done.
There's a strong version and a light version of his possible economical policies.
The strong version:
- Trump blocks Chinees and Mexican products with barriers to entry, tariffs of 40% are implemented.
- Trump will reject existing trade treats like Nafta and refuse new ones like TTIP and TPP
Results: a worldwide wave of international protectionism, a shrinking world economy, and social revolts against poverty.
This will cause a new wave of lost of jobs, and a worldwide economical depression.
Result : exit Trump.
The light version:
- Trump, pressed by diplomat advisors and lobbyists, decides to be pragmatically, and decides to keep the military bases in Japan and South Korea to keep China in it's political position and to keep stability in the Asiatic region as a whole.
- At the same time he lets China know to respect the headlines of former agreements and on TPP, and sells at home some new concessions as big victory.
All this in order to 'keep America great' instead of 'make America great again'...
Only TTIP won't survive, but that wouldn't make Europe mourne, given the todays' political situation in Europe.
- The big Wall with Mexico shows as not realistic, Trump concentrates on demonstrative activities of expelling illegal immigrants which gets disappointing by juridical 'swamps', and his voting power base gets increasingly frustrated.
Result, maybe during his second term: exit Trump.
In the meantime the old Trump electorate of the country side moved to the city or died already, and the millenniums - who voted left for almost 100% in 2016 - and their grown children take over with the new Bernie Sanders of 2024
Meaning: I wouldn't cheer so hard now about Trump's victory...
And I'm not saying this because in a one-man-one-vote system Trump would've lost the 2016 elections...
cheers, and enjoy the victory, like I do, as a leftie, when thinking on the neglected and marginalised masses as set aside by international capital - economically that is, as socio-culturally I don't sympathise with the deprived class...
think of abortion, personal chosen euthanasia, homosexuality, use of drugs, public cursing, cursing on telly, saying fuck on telly, or fucking on telly
