SimpleDon
Veteran Member
Some thoughts on what happened yesterday, 8 November
Containing no analysis of voting patterns, no recriminations for the failed campaign or for the media, no mention of emails or sexual abuse, no celebration or remorse.
Georgia became a pseudo-swing state in the last week of the campaign so we got to see the two candidates final advertising. Trump's final ad was quite powerful and effective in my view. And I agreed with it, although I didn't vote for him.
It wasn't anti-Muslim, or about building a wall to keep out criminals. It was anti-globalization, anti-trade treaty and anti-deindustrialization. Although I doubt that anyone in the Trump campaign would think of in this way it is anti-neoliberalism meaning it is pro-labor, pro-wages, anti-profits and anti-wealth. It is the highest irony that this came from a wealthy man endowed at birth with his wealth running at the head of the Republican party, the party that is responsible for the policies that he disavowed.
Nothing will come of it of course. Neoliberalism is the lifeblood of the Republican party. Whoever crafted this advertisement probably viewed it as good politics, not as policies that would have any part of Trump's administration.
It really is a shame. Just like the Brexit it might even be worth the turmoil if we could start pulling back from these destructive neoliberal economic policies, they caused the Great Recession, they instituted ever increasing income and wealth inequality as permanent policy and ironically, they went a long way toward giving us this psychotic bigot as president.
But it does ring true to the workers who have been hurt by these policies designed to reduce wages to increase the profits and the incomes of the already wealthy. It is a shame that the Democrats couldn't have adopted some of this message, which of course, was Bernie's platform. </recrimination. I Trumped; ie I lied>
Containing no analysis of voting patterns, no recriminations for the failed campaign or for the media, no mention of emails or sexual abuse, no celebration or remorse.
Georgia became a pseudo-swing state in the last week of the campaign so we got to see the two candidates final advertising. Trump's final ad was quite powerful and effective in my view. And I agreed with it, although I didn't vote for him.
It wasn't anti-Muslim, or about building a wall to keep out criminals. It was anti-globalization, anti-trade treaty and anti-deindustrialization. Although I doubt that anyone in the Trump campaign would think of in this way it is anti-neoliberalism meaning it is pro-labor, pro-wages, anti-profits and anti-wealth. It is the highest irony that this came from a wealthy man endowed at birth with his wealth running at the head of the Republican party, the party that is responsible for the policies that he disavowed.
Nothing will come of it of course. Neoliberalism is the lifeblood of the Republican party. Whoever crafted this advertisement probably viewed it as good politics, not as policies that would have any part of Trump's administration.
It really is a shame. Just like the Brexit it might even be worth the turmoil if we could start pulling back from these destructive neoliberal economic policies, they caused the Great Recession, they instituted ever increasing income and wealth inequality as permanent policy and ironically, they went a long way toward giving us this psychotic bigot as president.
But it does ring true to the workers who have been hurt by these policies designed to reduce wages to increase the profits and the incomes of the already wealthy. It is a shame that the Democrats couldn't have adopted some of this message, which of course, was Bernie's platform. </recrimination. I Trumped; ie I lied>
