First thing which appeals to me is the smooth handing over of the power that ensues this landmark result. Indications are that the powers will shift smoothly - but outside rumblings may be heard for a while.
Now - I didn't really enter the predicting race. But yes I would have voted for Clinton because I am sucker for the news paper reports, which glorified all the negatives of Trump, while glossing over that of Clintons. And yes; my favourite paper 'The Economist' vote was also for Clinton.
But the Electoral College voters, had other plans. And analysing the result, I feel that this great country, US of A, might as well do with an alternative narrative.
Why would I say this?
- Donald Trump is not an unknown entry as the press would like us to believe in handling of the administration. For anyone who has been close to power it must be abundantly clear that winner attracts many and to succeed further you must choose correctly, your advisors, your executives and administrators. For a start he has a solid deputy, who has already started doing the rounds in Washington power corridors.
- White minorities; yes they are becoming one if you discount the so called well off ones; are not taken care of post world war II. They have been silently loosing ground to the Post Nazi world and they are being increasingly lead to believe that the Jews have taken control power at Washington D.C. This is a view which has many followers and I for one have reasons to believe that this cannot be just wished away.
- And I find that Donald Trump is a doer. He has not given us indication that he is a fence sitter. Since he was not of the administration or has never been in politics directly, he could afford to be callous. As a rank outsider, he could promise to fix things. But a look at his personal track record, would show that this guy, is capable of going to great extent to achieve what he believes must be done. And that is good. We have to hope that he moderates his actions and goes about overhauling the defunct, badly failed bipartisan approach through intelligent but firm manoeuvres. You couldn't have expected that of a Clinton administration.
- There has been excessive build up of inequality in the name of globalisation. Like the delinking of Gold and currency notes, today product pricing has lost all significance to production costs or the raw materials costs. Be it health care pricing or the cell phone pricing or the data analysts software pricing, you are able to get away nearly with astronomical margins. This is attributable to the globalisation efforts where very few have their way. And that is not a good thing.
- Competition has to be back - but in a different way. Many are affected by the subsidy element brought in to the consumerist nation, by manipulating the currencies. It is time some one broke the system and brought in some order.
- Immigration is also an issue. First you encourage private institutions to fund their own costs and to build their revenue open up the immigration gates combined with consumer loans - educational loans. So the locals are kept out of the system. How can this survive?
- Bank rolling of global corporations to kill competition through M&A have been the trend for decades now. And each move takes away more jobs and leave that much poorer. Small investors are replaced by algorithmic trades, where nano seconds matter. So the belief that Capital markets know best may not be true in many cases.
- And the fight between Sunnis and Shias have been killing millions and the super power has not condemned it. Yes both deserve condemnation and as the President Elect, has declared though ominously, it is time that the entire clan belonging to the religious sect require a close examination.
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