Head in the clouds?
If you view the world from 30,000 feet travelling at 500 miles per hour, then you are going to miss things. The corporate media and elitist establishment were completely surprised by the successful Presidential race by Donald Trump. Hillary appeared to have been promised the Presidency. She had been patient in other duties for many years waiting for her turn. All that was left was to haul her tired body and heavy baggage across the finish line. They settled in to watch the incoming election results with glee knowing the fait accompli with their head in the clouds dreaming of how Hillary would continue with their planned globalist agenda.
Hillary had prepared only a victory speech to be given at a location with an actual glass ceiling (1) to further symbolize breaking the barrier to become the first woman President of the United States. The Hillary supporter’s shock and disbelief of the electoral college count quickly turned to tears when Trump was announced be the next President.(2)
How did this happen?
The analysis of the new reality was almost more than could be fathomed. The educated bright minds of the globalist elites wondered how Trump voters out-foxed them. Their brains were literally about to explode trying to grasp how so many in power had been blind-sided by ignorant louts who placed a loose-cannon buffoon as the next President of the United States of America. The Republican establishment wondered how they lost control over the process because they also didn’t support Trump as their party candidate.
The controlled media and the globalists discussed among themselves and wrote op-eds to each other puzzling over the new paradigm. Lauren Green and Judith Miller, Pulitzer prize winning reporter and member of The Council on Foreign Relations, discussed the election outcome on Fox News “Bias Bash” on 11/11/2016. They were both obviously Hillary supporters. (3)
When I talk to people who are really disappointed about Hillary losing, a lot of them have the idea only uneducated, ignorant, stupid people voted for Trump and that’s their attitude. That’s why we don’t pay attention to Trump’s supporters. Did the media play that game too?
Yes, globalist elites and establishment media, you did play that game.
Better than you
Hillary and her supporters looking through the prism of “identity politics” viewed Trump supporters as “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic — you name it” cretins. Hillary described half of Trump voters as a “basket of deplorables” garnering laughter from her “better than thou” audience. Deplorable comes from the French word déplorer meaning “to give up as hopeless” with no chance for redemption. Coming from her mouth this righteous tongue lashing was particularly outrageous. She dismissed the other half as just wanting someone to listen to them, which her party wasn’t doing.
Trump’s supporters didn’t split hairs over being “half” and all took offense. A New York billionaire elite was an unlikely champion for the disenfranchised “deplorables” in his campaign’s response to Hillary.
For the first time in a long while, her true feelings came out, showing bigotry and hatred for millions of Americans. How can she be President of our country when she has such contempt and disdain for so many great Americans? (4)
I’m With Her
“I’m with Her” was the Democratic party slogan. (5) The party of “her” was obliged to look the other way as they dragged her collected ‘baggage’, false memories, poor judgement, lies and moral hypocrisy behind them. They worked to smooth her path and knock away obstacles, but more kept popping up that were of her own making. Democrat operatives were sent into Republican rallies to try to illicit violence, as an attempt to portray the Trump supporters negatively. (6)
Admission by someone considering voting for Trump would only illicit shaming taunts from liberal voters. (7) Democrats failed to note the irony of considering themselves to be tolerant and inclusive while shaming and trying to silence those who disagreed with their world view. Trump voters began to lie about who they were actually voting for to avoid outing themselves. The pollsters gathered false data, which resulted in garbage in and garbage out statistical analysis.
The “identity politics” (8) of Hillary supporters was never the heart of the Trump revolution. Distrust of the globalists, concern for socialist liberal agendas and control of the future Supreme court nominations were much larger factors.
Trump supporters were called racist because they dared to say “All Lives Matter”, xenophobic for wanting to stem illegal immigration, sexist because they wouldn’t vote for Hillary by default or perhaps because they disapproved of government funding for abortion on demand, homophobic for not automatically accepting gender neutral bathroom privileges, and Islamaphobic because they were concerned about terrorist extremism.
The Trump supporters turned her ridicule into a rallying cry and sense of pride. “Deplorables Unite”became a rallying political battle cry and anthem. Donald Trump’s failure to be politically correct and chastised by Democrats into silence merely endeared him more to the so-called “deplorables”.
Deplorables Around the World Unite
This is an example of a video for the song played as Trump entered into his rallies.
We will fight back against globalism. We will stay vigilant and proud of our nations.
Join the fight against globalism. Join the fight against Islamic terror. Join the fight against Soros. Join the fight against the Clintons. Join the fight against Big Banks. Join the fight against the Establishment. Join the fight against Tyranny. The Deplorables of the world unite. Let’s make the world great again.
Trumpennials
I’m NOT With Her
“I’m with Her” was not a very inspiring message. Her cronies didn’t even believe in her message to draw voters. Evidence leaked showed the party insiders and media puppets worked to get Trump as the Republican candidate for a straw man to knock down and sabotaged Democratic party rival Bernie Sanders’ chances. (9)
Bashing Trump was a low bar and not pulling many to support of her. In non-swing states many stayed home or voted for a third party. Fewer voters came out for Hillary than voted for Obama in 2012. Many Democrats in several crucial states stayed home or voted for Trump because they were not “with her”. The Republican Establishment wouldn’t back Trump, but in the end Republican voters against Trump voted for him holding their nose with an attitude of “I’m NOT with Her”.
Trump brought out nearly 3 million more voters than Romney pulled in 2012. (10) (11) Trump had more minorities and women than anyone anticipated, which was only a surprise to the blind sided Hillary fans. They even crossed the line proudly declaring themselves “deplorable” too. The support was evident in the Trump rallies and on-line, if anyone cared to pay attention.
That Hillary won the popular vote is repeated often for a faux victory. They don’t take into account that the campaign was always for the electoral college and want to live in a delusional alternative reality. Many want to believe the election wasn’t really lost and merely stolen from them by a technicality.
Divided America
Bill Maher, liberal political comedian, in an on-line with ATTN on 12/18/2016 (12), spoke out for first time since the election showing the disdain for large swathes of the country as merely places to fly over.
Why do we need two Dakotas? Can we just start with that? There definitely should not be four Senators from the Dakota territory. If there’s two Dakotas, we should have fifteen f*king Californias. (12)
James E. Campbell is a UB distinguished professor of political science at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, and is the author of “Polarized: Making Sense of a Divided America”. He wrote a good explanation of the popular vs electoral college results.
Clinton’s popular-vote plurality over Trump depends on the votes in a single state: California, which single-handedly turns a Trump plurality into a Clinton plurality.
Under our electoral-vote system, American voters elected a national president, not California’s choice.
James E. Campbell (13)
Perhaps the country should be “The United States of California” instead of “The United States of America”? Even if Hillary had edged out Trump in critical close states, such as Florida and Pennsylvania, she still lost most of the population in the country-side in those states. Perhaps the liberal elites and media want a world like “The Hunger Games” novels with the big cities ruling the country districts?
Hillary called several states her “firewall”. (14) She forgot her own words about how many supporters of Trump were disenfranchised, but continued to take them for granted. The Democrats lost in the mid-west and around the Great Lakes. The Rust Belt voted for Trump. The Democrats also lost in the south east and Trump edged out Florida.
The west coast and east coast Liberal enclaves enthusiastically voted for Hillary.
The media establishment, let’s face it, we do live in New York, Washington, and in Silicon Valley and Hollywood. That’s the west coast and the east coast.
Judith Miller (member Council on Foreign Relations)
Hillary also lost most of the “fly over” states between New York City and Los Angeles.
Electoral College Vote Results: State-by-State List December 19, 2016
Fly over America
Jason Aldean, a country singer, in 2012 had a song that expressed the sentiment of the elites flying over America from coast to coast never trying to understand the people. This attitude is nothing new, but had an impact on the election this year. The populist revolution had the Silent Majority rising up to get out the vote knowing which states were important for an electoral college victory. The people in some states, like California, may have won Hillary the popular vote, but the votes that mattered were towards the electoral college.
A New York billionaire businessman seems an ironic choice for President from rural and blue collar workers, but he didn’t talk down to them and listened to their concerns and appeared to care. He flew to their communities and never stopped campaigning till the last moment.
Hope and Change Reduct
Michelle Obama spoke to Oprah Winfrey on 12/14/2016 saying she had a feeling of hopelessness because Hillary Clinton lost the election. (15)
“See, now we are feeling what not having hope feels like, you know. Hope is necessary. It is a necessary concept. What do you give your kids if you can’t give them hope?”
Donald Trump’s election turns Barack Obama’s hope on its head. Trump’s election has given hope back to many in America after the “Hope and Change” Obama campaigned on was never delivered to them. Will Donald Trump be able to deliver his version of change?
One champion of the elite globalists isn’t losing hope: Henry Kissinger on “Face the Nation” on 12/18/2016 expressed optimism for the unexpected shake-up by Trump’s Presidency. (16)
“Donald Trump is a phenomenon ….. So it is a shocking experience for them that he came into office. At the same time, extraordinary opportunity. I believe he has the possibility of going down in history as a very considerable president.”
Maybe the “elites” should go out and learn about their own country and their own people vs just those clustered in the cities or at their college alumni breakfasts. Stop just flying over America and maybe you could understand how Trump won the election.
Jason Aldean – “Fly Over States” from album “My Kinda Party” 2012
“Fly Over States”
A couple of guys in First Class on a flight
From New York to Los Angeles
Kinda making small talk killin’ time
Flirting with the flight attendants
Thirty thousand feet above, could be Oklahoma
Just a bunch of square cornfields and wheat farms
Man, it all looks the same
Miles and miles of back roads and highways
Connecting little towns with funny names
Who’d want to live down there in the middle of nowhere?
They’ve never drove through Indiana
Met the man who plowed that earth
Planted that seed, busted his ass for you and me
Or caught a harvest moon in Kansas
They’d understand why God made
Those fly over states
I bet that mile long Santa Fe
Freight train engineer’s seen it all
Just like that flatbed cowboy
Stacking US Steel on a three day haul
Roads and rails under their feet
Yeah, that sounds like a first class seat
On the plains of Oklahoma
With a windshield sunset in your eyes
Like a water colored painted sky
You’ll think Heaven’s doors have opened
You’ll understand why God made
Those fly over states
Take a ride across the badlands
Feel that freedom on your face
Breathe in all that open space
Meet a girl from Amarillo
You’ll understand why God made
You might even wanna plant your stakes
In those fly over states
Have you ever been through Indiana
On the plains of Oklahoma
Take a ride
(1) On election night, Hillary Clinton stands under real glass ceiling in NYC
(2) Tears and shock at Clinton election party
(3) Judith Miller – Youtube video: Media were completely shocked by Trump’s win.
Wikipedia on Judith Miller Judith Miller is a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter, graduate of Princeton University, and worked at New York Times etc. As of 2016, she is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
(4) Donald Trump responds to Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” comment
(5) H Is for Hillary
(6) Project Veritas exposed many dark dealings by the Democratic party
(7) Even Obama thought Hillary supporters should chillax on the anti-Trump hysteria
(8) Democrats: Identity politics
(9) Bernie Sanders wants DNC leadership to resign
(10) Wikipedia: US Presidential election 2016
(11) Wikipedia: US Presidential election 2012
(12) Bill Maher interview on ATTN about Trump election
(13) Why Hillary Clinton Supporters Need to quit whining about the electoral college
(14) What happened to the Clinton firewall?
(15) Michelle Obama talks to Oprah about feeling hopeless
(16) Face the Nation: Henry Kissinger discusses Trump election
US election 2016: Trump victory in maps
Why some flyover states switched to Trump
Good article in “The Guardian” on suburban / city vs rural and exurban areas.
A divided empire: what the urban-rural split means for the future of America
Cities have long been the backbone of the Democratic party, and rural regions the heartland of Republicanism – yet Donald Trump’s election has exposed these divides like never before. Will US metropolises increasingly turn into city-states?
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/jan/09/donald-trump-divided-empire-urban-rural-america-future?CMP=share_btn_tw
Article on WE Form on similar topic:
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/12/this-is-how-the-us-could-look-based-on-economics/?utm_content=bufferc64f3&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Another good article about the break between rural vs city that mirrors some of what I expressed in the above blog post: ‘What Do You Do if a Red State Moves to You?’ about Pepin County, Wisconson
By MICHAEL KRUSE January/February 2017
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/blue-red-state-democrats-trump-country-214647
The city liberal folks with identity politics not having a clue how to understand our new President of the United States and those who voted for him against the establishment system.
Excerpts:
Democrats and progressives thought they lived in one kind of place. It turns out they live in another. That’s true in the nation as a whole, and it’s particularly, poignantly true here. Pepin County at first glance doesn’t seem like much of a microcosm of America……startlingly precise reflection of the national rift that animated Trump’s campaign. “Stronger Together” versus “Great Again.” Move-ins versus natives. Urban versus rural.
a phrase that still has the power to make those on the left shudder in shock—an easy way to process the election is that people in rural areas all over America loathe Washington and New York and San Francisco and Hollywood and finally had a chance to show it in a big way. But Pepin County is one of those rural areas, and the resentment isn’t just directed at the coasts. It’s local. Here, the urban elite isn’t a faceless, distant other: It’s the enclave of liberal, mostly Twin Cities newcomers who have moved here over the past few decades—not just an abstract political imposition, but an actual physical presence. It has spawned anger and bitterness, a simmering undercurrent of alienation among many people locally born and raised. It has made “Democrat” mean something it didn’t mean a generation ago.
“We have found a whole community here,” said Pat Carlson, Wally Zick’s wife, “of very like-minded—it’s going to sound elite—but bookish, artsy, I’d say compassionate … organic foodies, the whole nine yards. It’s all transplants. It’s mostly liberals.” As for this election, and the locals, she continued, “I think they thought the liberal elite was looking down on them, and I guess, in some ways, we were. Because we couldn’t believe anybody would vote for Trump.”
The withering of old Pepin County has coincided with the influx of the move-ins. Minneapolis and St. Paul are an hour-and-a-half drive and a world away, and the people who have come from “the Cities,”
Clinton didn’t campaign anywhere close to Pepin County, or anywhere in Wisconsin, period, in the months leading up to the general election. People felt ignored.
There was “opposition from a lot of the liberals who live in fancy houses on the bluffs,” he said. Some of them, he added, “rarely talk to the locals”—even while trying to impose their ideas and sensibilities. The locals, Johnson said, understandably “feel hurt by the people who look at them as rural rubes.”
The reason Clinton lost: “It’s people looking around,” Cramer said, “and then making the assessment that their way of life is under threat.” ….“The ones that move in try to change everything,” …..
we’re all country bumpkins, the locals are, that we’re not educated. The people who move in talk down to the natives.
Trump’s rhetoric, calling him an “oddball.” But one thing he liked a lot: “I think he’s going to stand his ground on—how the hell do I want to word this?—I don’t think he’s gonna get ran over by the social agenda.”
….. people from the Cities who are very progressive. I call them tree-huggers, a bunch of tree-huggers. They referred to us, meaning the people who’ve lived here and worked here all our lives, as a bunch of hicks. They just think they’re a little bit better than everybody else, and that we’re not as smart.”
Clinton never came to the state for a rally or speech in the months prior to the general election, Trump arrived in close-by Eau Claire right before Election Day. His November 1 visit was dismissed by pollsters and pundits as a pointless exercise in a state he was slated to lose. “I will fix it, I will fix it, I will fix it,” he told the crowd
“It’s so simple,” he told me. “The people here are good, honest, down-to-earth people, good citizens. The elitists, they don’t understand. … If they would get out and talk to the working class, they would understand.”
the people from the Cities in their own county—“they all think we’re stupid,” she said, “and the common blue-collar worker doesn’t want to be treated like we’re stupid.”
Democrats and progressives in cities on the coasts were surprised by this election because they’re so removed from the Pepin Counties of the country. Here, though, it’s different. Proximity could be opportunity.