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Imperiet er kun noget værd for den 1 %.
Det faktum at Donald Trump blev valgt til at blive præsident for USA er stort set ikke relevant. Hvad der er relevant er de tilstande som gjorde det muligt for ham at blive valgt til præsident for USA.

Så hvad fik amerikanerne til at vælge enten Trump eller Hillary i denne uges amerikanske præsidentvalg? Spørg Mainstream medierne eller en hvilken som helst tilhænger af Clinton, og de vil sikkert fortælle dig at det var spørgsmål såsom liberale værdier og social retfærdighed. De vil også fortælle dig at Trumps tilhængere primært var motiveret af racisme, sexisme, og had. I virkeligheden så var Trumps tilhængere ligeså bekymrede over social uretfærdighed. Faktisk, så er dette emnet bag de fleste afstemninger i verden i vores tid. Og ironisk nok, så var Trumps vælgere formentligt mere bekymrede om social retfærdighed end de liberale som stemte for Hillary fordi den sociale retfærdighed som drev millioner til at stemme på Trump er ganske anderledes end den 'sociale retfærdighed' som bekymrede Hillarys tilhængere.

Her er vi nød til at skelne mellem arbejderklassen af 'rednecks' i USA, og nogle af dem i en mere social opadgående mobil financiel position. De fleste af dem som stemte for Trump var the 'rednecks' og de gjorde det fordi de havde mærket de negative virkninger af 8 år af Obama regeringens 'liberal' økonomiske og udenrigspolitikker som har fortsat uforandret siden årene under den 'Konservative' Bush (du vil måske undre dig over hvorfor det er sådan og hvordan det fungerer - hint: præsidenten er ikke den 'som beslutter', langt fra). Disse politikker faldt sammen med 'krakket' i 2008 og bankpakkerne (bailouts) som så millioner af amerikanske hjem blive taget tilbage og mange traditionelle jobs i fremstillingsindustrien gik tabt, begge ramte forholdsmæssigt hårdt de fattige.

Det var præcist denne marginalisering af de svageste i samfundet som stod bag Brexit valgresultatet i Storbritannien tidligere i år. Både det bristiske folks stemme til at forlade EU og det amerikanske folks stemme for Trump var ikke primært stemmer for racisme eller xenofobi men stemmer imod en neoliberal status quo under hvilken de fattige så deres levestandarder falde yderligere og alle så en stigning af krig og død i udlandet.

For at understrege den tværpolitiske karakter af disse proteststemmer; i USA var det den nominelle 'venstreorienterede' regeringskandidat som blev forkastet mens proteststemmerne i Storbritannien skete under den nominelle 'højreorienterede' konservative regering. Pointen er; den angivelige 'venstre/højre' politiske paradigme i vestlige demokratier eksisterer ikke længere. Den er blevet erstattet med en kombination af neoliberalisme og neokonservatisme, to smarte ord som beskriver ideologier som til sammen danner 'elite' projektet for transnational globalisering og dominans af verdens resourcer af korporationer og deres politiske venner gennem 'projektionen' af USAs militærmagt rundt om i verden.

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Så mens mainstream medierne, i det store hele støttende Hillary, som den etabliserede elites kandidat, brugt de sidste 12 måneder på at fremføre det synspunkt at Trumps tilhængere var 'yderst beklagelige' og at Trump selv var en rasende racist, sexist, xenophob, løgner, svindler, og narcissist, så var dette en stor løgn som skjulte den sandhed at de fleste af Trumps tilhængere var motiveret af et desperat ønske om bedre jobs, bedre løn, bedre sundhedspleje (eller nogen sundhedspleje overhovedet), etc. Med andre ord, reel social retfærdighed.

Da Trump blev tilbudt til disse marginaliserede og krigstrætte folk som det eneste alternativ til Hillary, så tog de tilbuddet uden megen videre tanke. Yderligere, baseret på opdukkende data fra afstemningerne, så lader det til at det ikke kun var de fattige som forkastede Hillary og det som hun står for, men 54% af hvide mænd med afsluttede universitetsuddannelse stemte for Trump. Når tallene er brudt ned efter indtægter, så mens 52% af vælgere med en indtægt på mindre end $50,000 om året stemte for Clinton, og 41% for Trump, så af de 64% of Amerikanske vælgere som tjener mere end $50,000 om året, 49% valgte Trump, og 47% Clinton. Så langt fra at kernemotivationen for vælgerne ved dette valg var et af 'enhver anden end Trump', så kan det have været tættere på 'enhver anden end Hillary'.


Kommentar: Denne artikel er delvis oversat til dansk af sott.net fra: President Trump Is A Wake Up Call, But Not For The Reasons You Think


That virtually all Hillary supporters, including a large number of interested observers around the world (especially in Europe), reacted to the Trump win with horror and dismay is evidence of the success of this lie peddled by the Western corporate media. It has also caused such people to express their 'shock' at the sudden and 'racist' turn of so many Americans, or to wonder how they could have missed this barbarity lurking at the heart of the 'world's greatest democracy'. The same people are also forced to use the same inane narrative to explain the fact that a majority of women voters stumped for Trump. Given Trump's comments about women, how else to explain this other than these women must all be - mentally-retarded rednecks'?

Such a 'view' is myopic in the extreme. Any woman who finds herself having to work 3 jobs and still unable to adequately feed her children or to have enough 'disposable income' to feel she has a decent standard of living, will have little problem overlooking sexist remarks or racist hyperbole by a potential president if he promises to address the serious issues that concern her and do away with the kleptocratic policies pursued by Obama (and by Clinton, and by the Bush administration).

Obviously, most of this underclass in the US are unlikely to be savvy political analysts with a deep understanding of the nature of the rapacious neoliberal/neoconservative agenda. But what they do understand is that if their livings standards have continued to fall under one government, then that government is responsible, and a change is in order. The question of whether or not Obama and Hillary, and the pathocracy they represent, are the true cause of poverty in the USA - they are - is irrelevant for the purpose of the point I am making: the underclass and war weary that voted for Trump did so NOT because they are 'dumb racist rednecks' but because they are the most socially marginalized and poorest in American society and Trump (sincerely or not) offered to help them. Their perspective, while simplistic, is far more perspicacious than that of the 'progressive', 'neoliberal' Hillary supporters, many of whom voted for Hillary simply because she wasn't Trump and she, as a polished establishment figure (and a woman no less!), could be relied on to secure them in their deluded, detached and mollycoddled worldview.

Hillary's Neoliberals

Most Hillary supporters were middle and upper middle class white people, many of them young 'millennials' or those below the age of 35. Some, but not all, of these people have grown up in a rarefied and delusional atmosphere of 'open society' multiculturalism where their 'progressive' social and cultural values reject any notion of traditional values, and by that I mean caring about someone other than yourself and your 'team'. It's more than a little ironic how all those liberals who talk endlessly about 'inclusiveness' and 'microaggressions' are the ones now rioting in the streets, spewing hateful invective and carrying out real "macroaggressions" against Trump supporters.

These are the people whose positions of relative social and economic security and lack of awareness of the levels of poverty in the USA and the brutality meted out by the US military (under Obama and Bush) to people of other nations, allows them to still believe in The American Dream and the freedom to angst over more abstract and 'cultural' issues. Issues like gay rights, women's rights (but not the rights of poor redneck American women or Iraqi women or Syrian women, or Libyan women) and 'liberal values', where everyone is free to be as self-absorbed and ignorant of reality as they please.

The highest turnout in support of Hillary was Washington DC. Just look at the images below for a graphical representation of the radical disconnect that exists between the Washington elite and almost 75% of the rest of country, who either voted for Trump or didn't vote at all. Again, it looks like the true message of this election from the American people was 'anyone but elitist warmonger Hillary'.
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For Hillary supporters, having the first female president in the White House would secure and progress the neoliberal 'values', along with more transgender toilets, more immigrants and more of the wars that provide the immigrants. Of course, Hillary's supporters know little and care less about the truth of the neo-Trotskyist ideology of American hegemonic control over all natural resources through endless war and constant regime change for which Hillary and Obama stand. All they know is what they read in the establishment 'liberal media': that American foreign policy focuses solely on 'freeing oppressed people from brutal regimes' and bringing multicultural transgenderism and 'open society' to every corner of the world.

So one really has to wonder about the actual intelligence of these so-called progressive millennial and Hillaryophiles in general. A short lifetime of narcissistic popular culture appears to have left them without even the semblance of a BS meter. A case in point: over the last 2 days, oceans of millennial tears have been shed over Trump and his 'racist' followers, and yet, 20 years ago, President Bill Clinton, a 'lefty' liberal and avowed sexist (and rapist, some say), said more or less the same thing about illegal immigration. So why the angst now? Is it simply the fact that Trump is open about his crassness and racism rather than hiding it behind a well polished 'democratic' political exterior like Hillary and gang? Or is it that most millennials were only 10 years old at the time and they couldn't care less about history? If so, then the election of Trump might be a very good thing for America.
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White House millennials as Obama welcomes Trump to the White House. Listen closely and you'll hear the sound of the world's tiniest violin.
The vitally important take-away message from the result of this election is that it is a wake-up call and one that every one of us needs to hear: 'You are ruled by a mostly unelected cabal of corrupt crony capitalist warmongers who have repeatedly bamboozled and divided you by changing political persuasion as often as you change underwear.' In their private lives, such people hold attitudes towards the American people (and ordinary people everywhere) that make Donald Trump look like Pope Francis. And while endless attention is given to the approved and encouraged 'concerns' of racism, sexism and transgenderism, these stewards of the American empire are killing hundreds of thousands of people overseas and supporting regimes that arrest, torture and kill homosexuals, women and political dissidents.

So for all those who voted for Hillary because they are worried about fascism coming to America, I have news for you: Donald Trump isn't it. When fascism comes to America, it won't be in the guise of a crass demagogue espousing regressive policies, it will come wrapped in the flag of 21st-century 'liberal' and 'progressive' ideals, espoused by a government that slaughters millions of foreigners in the name of freedom and democracy and yet enjoys the fawning adoration of a gaggle of self-centered, self-important wannabe humanitarian do-gooders. So don't kid yourself, American fascism isn't looming on the horizon because of President Trump; it's been your bread-and-butter for decades.