America has Voted!

America has chosen its new president and it was not the outcome expected. When it comes down to asking why so many Americans voted for a convicted felon as their leader, history will be the judge of that. While America’s enemies all rejoiced in Trump’s win, all of its Allies had that “Don’t Look Up” moment, fully aware of what is coming down the pipe but in public have to remain in denial. When it comes to election analysis one common theme in the media citing that the democrats have become too elitist in the way they kept highlighting Trump’s criminal behavior. Some of that may be true but you cannot be labelled an elitist if you are telling the truth. Like in Britain with Brexit, misinformation or flat-out lies are a working successful formula in politics now. The days of taking your daily news from Walter Cronkite are over, now that message is buried in amongst a thousand others for you to seek out or ignore. So, when Americans were warned the stove was far too hot, many of them only saw the reverse of that message or just decided to touch it anyway. Voting for 100% opposite to what they think they are voting for, which means that the rest of the world has to suffer alongside them by that misguided choice. The Economy, Stock market, Democracy, Social services, the Environment along with Humanity are all going to take a massive hit.  In a rational world, a party that declares it would take action on climate change would be considered a key issue to vote on especially in places like Florida who will see their real estate values drop by 30% in the coming years and good luck getting building insurance while Trumper’s still deny global warming even exists. However in the irrational world, it’s all the other stuff that they need to be concerned about. Triggered by propaganda with things like “woke” or economic hardships without ever seeking the facts on what caused their grievances in the first place. Especially whether a circumstance at any particular time is global or just local. People actually decide their vote based on that stuff and by doing so doesn’t mean they were wrong on that particular issue, it just means far more important issues were totally ignored and they just made a choice to self destruct inflamed by pointless diversions. World history has shown that no modern empire has lasted more than 250 yrs before it totally collapses and right now America is at the 248-year mark. We will see how Trump and all that perfectly sane, rational “brain” power he will add to his coming administration will guide them through that milestone and come out of it looking great. In closing this post a quote from another famous American in history “It’s Easier to Fool People Than It Is to Convince Them That They Have Been Fooled.” – Mark Twain