God Bless America

Like the Brexit vote, Donald Trumps election only now raises the issues behind the decision which should have been aired then.

In Brexit's case the difficulties of establishing a working relationship within the collective banking system for instance was never spelt out and given the banking system is the financial prop on which the country now survives it was crucial that we understand its importance.

This morning I was listening to a new voice describing Donald Trump. He described a man who would do any thing to win, who hated opposition, and who destroyed people who stood in his way.

Wow. That's hardly the description you want for the President of the United States.
A bully and man so narcissistic that his world evolves around what he values to the exclusion of anyone else's view.

Times are certainly going to be interesting.

Of course in politics it could be said that the description of the hubris which makes up the political chemistry is common amongst many of the governors and senators in the House so in some ways, since each is in some way sitting in his own self crated bubble the president can't fire them. 

President Obama was the antithesis of this in his quiet reasoned approach and his apparent humanity. His inability to make headway through Congress was not the paucity of his argument but in his willingness to believe you had to convince the opposition of not only the advantages to the people who elected all of them but that there was something in it for the Congressmen themselves. All his effort on winning Obama Care was not seen as bringing medical coverage to the people but the cost of doing so. Not a measure of the responsibility within a very wealth country to look after its citizens as measure of their civilisation but an evaluation of its citizens as a cost.

Putting a man on the moon was an acceptable cost, waging war against Osama bin Laden for having the effrontery to organise flying of a plane into the Twin Towers was an acceptable cost but providing that most valuable service for his own people at their time of greatest need and vulnerability was not worth the cost. How screwed up is that !!!

The Land of the Free and the Brave, with an overriding receipt of prizing the individual above the collective, of not securing the place for society as a whole within their vision. Their obsession on minimal governance and minuscule taxation, each for his own is the perfect mix for the American Dream so perhaps Donald will be just their man, whilst the rest of us wait to see.  God Bless America.