His Majesty had conclude b that the main reasons TRUMPf won were
Hillary Clinton and
the IDIOT ELECTORATE
No one disagreed with the first but several readers took exception to the second.
The kinder, gently berated me for not being sufficiently sympathetic to those sufferers of "false consciousness" among the downtrodden masses, condemned to live a semi literate existence in the American Heartland and Rust Belt.
The more combative suggested that I was a "fascist "for condemning the populist masses for being fooled by Donald Trumpf.
I plead guilty to eschewing the soft bigotry of low expectations.I did not use the term " idiot" lightly.
Not all of Trumpf's supporters are bigots, know nothings or xenophobes .But many are. Many more are stupid.That is,they are idiots.
There is no excuse for idiocy.
APPARENTLY MANY
Miners
factory workers
long term unemployed
elderly
business people
believe him or know he is a crook but do not care
THE MAJORITY OF VOTERS WERE NOT FOOLED
but enough were to deliver the electoral college to a narcissistic,know little, blowhard BULLY .
AS to being a FASCIST :
An insult used so unsparingly as to have lost its meaning.
Speaking out against the bigotry,ignorance ,xenophobia and spite of the {"GREAT LEADER"} DONALD and the large number of deluded Trumpf voters is the DEFINITION of anti fascism.
The next posting will now have to be on the definition and characteristics of fascism.
Readers may judge for themselves the degree to which whether Trumf, his behaviour, his cabinet choices and his policies fit or not.
The electorate were far from idiots ... the problem is, that the politicians have not got a clue what their electorate really thinks ! and that applies to both the UK (Brexit) and the US (Trump).
ReplyDeleteIn the US, I understand it was a choice between the 'devious' and the 'maniac' ... so please don't blame the electorate !