We are all going to get drenched

Subject: We are all going to get drenched.

It is not a question of intelligence. You can't say that a person who votes for Donald Trump is less intelligent than the one who votes for Joe Biden. Intelligence would have to be defined in very broad brush terms if this were the case and given that it's roughly half and half of the population which is split into each camp there is something much more subtle going on and it's to do with the background of the people who vote.

A Biden voter is an old fashioned internationalist, a person who sees America's place as it has been since the Second World War, the gatekeeper of western ideals in terms of trade and security. They sought to align themselves as a "member" of the world community and whilst being its paymaster and in many cases demanding more than a quid pro quo, they were undoubtably on our side. The academics and the collage student, having escaped the box of an American 'only' perspective by reading the history and studying the intricacies of the nations they chose to align with.

The people who voted for Trump in even larger numbers this time around have a different world view. They question the dollars spent on defending countries who have nothing good to say about America and they see their own personnel decline in living standard tied to this role of being provider to NATO and the other defence pacts around the world and they see the rust belt as a direct consequence of dollars spent elsewhere.

Nationalism is quite a comforting place to inhabit, there are many reasons for doing things for yourself and your own people and it takes a much deeper more complicated world view to think otherwise. Trump has tapped into the discontent which the globalisation of labour and factories producing things with an American label but which resides and employs people who the average American would be hard pressed to locate on a map. Why can't we they ask, go back to the old ways of doing things with factories in Detroit and Delaware, Michigan and Idaho producing for a well heeled local economy where the per capita spend is as high as anywhere in the world other than autocracies such as  Singapore. Trumps call "to make America great again" has an appeal and resonates with his followers who have become destitute whilst new billionaires are created every year.

The whole "global supply chain" is a concept which has caused great uncertainty across the world driving our own workforce to be pushed out of work by having the work done in countries which could be described as employing slave labour and describe the appalling gap which has grown between capital and labour.

Biden's Democratic Party were of course hand in glove with the architects of the global economy and would equate to the Conservative party in this country. They were just as complicit in the idea of a 'trickle down economy' where the rich get richer and the crumbs are deposited amongst those lower down the food chain. There is no equivalent of the Labour Party in America, socialism is blasphemy and the working class and the lower middle class were ripe pickings for Trump and his promise's to bring work back onto American soil.

Biden represents the 'talking class' who know the disadvantaged as specimens for numerous reports and action plans behind a smokescreen of steady as she goes, no need to rock the boat and scare the horses.

Trumps isolationism should make the world take heed since we have all prospered under their protective umbrella. Once that comes down, we are all going to get drenched.