[LINK] "Donald Trump wins - WTF now?"
I'm not sure I agree with everything Gary Freeman has to say in his NOW Toronto article, but my attention was certainly caught by his arguments.
It's as if an alien spacecraft called The Apocalypse has crash-landed in the capital and their orange leader alighted and strolled down Pennsylvania Avenue where he had vowed he’d end up. The election of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States resonates frighteningly.
For the shell-shocked, it will be forever incomprehensible how a dishonest tax-dodger, bully, narcissist, habitual liar and xenophobe has managed to engineer the most hostile and blatant takeover in US history.
Yet, Trumpland and its denizens would be more readily recognizable to the "Founding Fathers" than the America of the last eight years and certainly an America with a woman president.
US president-elect Donald Trump is the personification of white male America’s tragically warped sense of entitlement and that is what he has tapped into - something that is as American as the tragic social stratification deeply embedded in the United States and constructed by the Founding Fathers.
In 1776 until 1810, the right to vote in the United States was the prerogative of white, male, Protestant “property owners” over the age of 21. During the presidential elections of 1787 and 1792, the first two held in the United States, less than 1per cent of the population voted. They believed America belonged to them and them alone.
It's as if an alien spacecraft called The Apocalypse has crash-landed in the capital and their orange leader alighted and strolled down Pennsylvania Avenue where he had vowed he’d end up. The election of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States resonates frighteningly.
For the shell-shocked, it will be forever incomprehensible how a dishonest tax-dodger, bully, narcissist, habitual liar and xenophobe has managed to engineer the most hostile and blatant takeover in US history.
Yet, Trumpland and its denizens would be more readily recognizable to the "Founding Fathers" than the America of the last eight years and certainly an America with a woman president.
US president-elect Donald Trump is the personification of white male America’s tragically warped sense of entitlement and that is what he has tapped into - something that is as American as the tragic social stratification deeply embedded in the United States and constructed by the Founding Fathers.
In 1776 until 1810, the right to vote in the United States was the prerogative of white, male, Protestant “property owners” over the age of 21. During the presidential elections of 1787 and 1792, the first two held in the United States, less than 1per cent of the population voted. They believed America belonged to them and them alone.