PRESIDENT Donald Trump
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So what is your thoughts?
Mine is what dreadful political pundit i make…i thought Yes for Scotland, Remain for the UK …and i thought Hilarity would be the next president of the USA. I even thought the Pirates in Iceland had a chance of holding political office.
Never trust me to pick a winner in any election, comrades.
Well Alan I picked the winner on both occasions so perhaps I should really pursue a career in gambling I guess – although is it absolutely certain yet that Trump has won?As with Brexit what we are seeing here is the pus coming out after the boil has been lanced. This is the legacy of years and years of institutionalized contempt and cynicism that the poltical establishment has displayed towards the electorate. There is a sort of change going on in the world which is a little deeper than the usual case of Tweedledum taking turns with Tweedledee in holding the reins of power. A sort of threshold has been crossed.Where this take us I don't know. But the way in which we socialists put across our ideas needs to accommodate this shift in the mood of the working class. In a perverse kind of way the idea of President Trump is not the altogether depressing thought it would otherwise be
I very quickly cut and pasted blog posthttp://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2016/11/president-donald-trump-and-fight-back.html
How long will it be before Trump back-tracks on all his policies and threats?More importantly, when will theworkers from rural and the rust states learn that the promises and pledges were election rhetoric. Humiliated in defeat and having rejected Sanders "progressive" policies, do the Democrats shift to the right to re-capture the votes?Will it move left-wards? I said elsewhere some speculate already that it will be Elizabeth Warren for 2020 Republican president senate and congress, and with advisers such as John Bolton expected to have positions of power what will be the impact on domestic and international affairs?Obamacare? The Iran Deal? …so so many questions…And can we say that Trump will serve as puppet to his pay-masters ? Will it be The Wall or Wall St?
After Brexit. Now this. What next? Any bets on Marie Le Pen as president of France next year?There does seem to be a trend against globalization and a retreat into narrow nationalism. This is what happened the last time there was a prolonged period of slump and stagnation, in the 1930s. Whether there'll be a return to trade wars as then remains to be seen.The small mercy is that politically this is not taking the form of a movement to replace political democracy by political dictatorship. In fact it's rather more the opposite, with both "left" and "right" demanding more accountability and more direct democracy. That won't make any difference to the way capitalism operates (to put profits before people) though. What happens, then, when Trump fails to bring "prosperity" for the victims of globalisation he appealed to and who voted for him?
As with Brexit, the disturbing thing is thre is no discernable working class movement, except in asserting nationalist rights: repatriate the jobs that the Otehr has taken away. It really does call into question whether the working class is the agent of sociealism. Should we then, as Paul mason suggests today, tail end liberalism as a lesser evil?
If Clinton won, there would be a long period of acquiescence to provide her with room to keep the promises she made to the Sanders supporters before opposition would be mobilised aginst her.Will Trump get this breathing space? Perhaps the Trump win and the disgraceful Democratic performance could mean a much faster coalescing into a resistance, unconstrained by the Democrat middle-roaders The Sanders 'Our Movement' can no longer be used as a gentle pressure group by the Democrat liberals but will perhaps become an all-out resistance to Trump and all the Republican politicians that have been elected and who are set on implemented an array of right-wing policies.How will Obama treat the remainder of his presidency now that he will not hand over to an "heir" but his 8-year legacy such as Obamacare is to be dismantled? His only claim to fame is being the first black president who achieved very little.Will he still have his eye on the post-presidency years of serving Wall St as the two Clintons have done and will continue doing and so maintain his moderate positions? Or will he use his executive power to put a spanner into the works of Trump?Unlike Brexit, there is no constitutional argument to keep the dissent among the elite. If carried out, Trump's threats will lead to street protests.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/08/us/politics/election-exit-polls.htmlSo, according to this exit poll, the poorest in society backed Clinton, what it looks like, though, is skilled workers ($30K+) went with trump. Also, notetrump is up 16% among the lowest group: some leftists are trying to spin against the 'Trump captured the poor' theme, but that's a huge grab of votes.Vaoufakis comments hre:https://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2016/11/09/trumps-triumph-diem25-on-how-progressives-must-react/He's right, there is a reactionary inernational being organised.
Yeah, ALB…i'm still in shock…It is Our Revolution i meant …They will be in disarray having to re-arrange their analyses now. Originally it was a grassroots Democratic rank and file grouping to elect and campaign for Sanderesque candidates but now many will be arguing that it becomes more activist …https://ourrevolution.com/election-2016/
Quote:Statement on Election Results"Too many communities have been left behind in the global economy. Too many young people cannot afford the cost of the college education. Too many cannot afford basic necessities like health care, housing, or retirement. "Those of us who want a more equitable and inclusive America need to chart a new course that represents the needs of middle income and working families. The most important thing we can do is come together in unity and fight to protect the most vulnerable people of this country. Just like we did yesterday, Our Revolution will be on the front lines of the fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline and the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal tomorrow morning. We will do everything in our power to ensure that the president-elect cannot ignore the battles Americans are facing every single day. "Tonight Donald Trump was elected president. Our job is to offer a real alternative vision and engage on the local and national level to continue the work of the political revolution in the face of a divided nation."November 9, 2016
Here's Steve Coleman's analysis of the Trump phenomenon made before he got elected:https://theconversation.com/donald-trump-both-the-old-crazy-and-the-new-normal-58728It seems he hasn't completely lost his old style of writing as when he used to write for the Socialist Standard
"Well…that's life". This is what Trump said on the prospect of a nuclear war in the Far East. The "Working class" deserve all they get. Stupid bastards. Our horrible fuckin species is on a death wish. World Socialism? Forget it!
Quote:Rather than devoting huge energy pointing to the absurdity or toxicity of this new populism, democracies would be better served by beginning a debate about what it means to represent and be represented; what form democratic representation might take in an era of instantaneous communication.And what should our answer to this be?Could we perhaps begin with our own organisation…the EC meetings and our conferences and meetings on live streaming? Instant member input and feedback via Skype or whatever? If we argue a leader-free democracy works for the Party, can we now go on to argue that participatory live-time decision-making also works for us. Shouldn't the party be the lab for experiments in active democracy via laptops and mobile phones?But it does seem we diverge from half of our fellow-workers when we try to speculate on how they vote. Is this dis-connect a serious sign of our isolation?
Even that he won the race for the presidency, he is the most unpopular president in the history of the USA. He has been elected by a very small group of voters, he is going to be governing with a very narrow support from the working class, and the opposition is going to be bigger than his supportersHillary Clinton was going to be the winner, but at the end most African American, Youth, Latinos, supporters of Bernie Sanders, and Asian did not vote for her, the abstention was enormous. Bernie Sanders would have defeated him by a landslideThe protest against Trump have already started, there are riots of young peoples in San Francisco, it looks like the phenomenon of the 60 is coming back to the USA.During the times of economical crisis narrow nationalism is always reactivated
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