Your Own Peril

Francis Fukuyama in his Financial Times weekend piece, "Us against the world?" gets few things right in his assessment of what a Trump presidency means.

One of them is this: "Trump received a huge number of votes from better-educated and more well-off voters as well, who were not victims of globalization but still felt their country was being taken from them. Needless to say, this dynamic underlay the Brexit vote as well."

They had and still have that feeling, sir, because it is more than a feeling. It's a PC agenda-driven fact. As you yourself note "...many ordinary American citizens began to wonder why their communities were filling up with immigrants, and who had authorized a system of politically correct language which one could not even complain about the problem."

They found part of their answer in a most unsuspected place, sir, the Internet. But it is far more complicated and sinister than that. The phony democracy you keep referring to and lamenting its alleged passing turned deceitful and corrupt as the executive and judicial branches began usurping more and more power, circumventing not just the will but the opinions of the people. This is the essence of elitist power and raw contempt. Referendums and elections were held only to wind up languishing for years in the courts because the losers disliked the results. Tightening the border in California was one them.

So you can jawbone about the faux democracy all you want. That's what academics do, flap their tongues. Your definition of democracy is a curious one. You write a Trump presidency will "signal he end of an era in which the US symbolised democracy." It was always and still is a tainted democracy characterized by periodic crumb tossing by the elites who secretly believed--and clearly still  do-- the masses were too dense to ever see through the BS.

It's almost impossible to read an opinion piece today where some trite academic is bellyaching that  Trump needs to surround  himself with those who have some idea how Washington works. No sir, that's putting the cart in front of the horse. Washington is there to serve the people, not the way it's been. It's Washington's job now--as it was always intended to be-- to figure out how to best serve the people. To figure out what the people want, not what a handful of overpaid, under worked public servants want. And if they can't figure that out in a reasonable time, then another, bigger question surfaces: Maybe there's no need for a centralized Washington? Maybe it's an idea that's outlived its usefulness and time? See Western Europe.

Maybe the individual states need to do what those elitist SV tech heads are threatening because things didn't go the way they wanted. If the elites can consider it as they build their underground cities to escape the coming chaos in places like Texas and so forth, in a true democracy the masses would be afforded the same rights. Nor is this a time for so-called healing. The masses recognize political cant when they see it. They have had to live with that BS for decades. If you think not just view the wall of red in that post-election map of the U.S.

There's a crystal clear message here. Not a threat, just a fact. A cold, stone hard fact for the elites and the academics of the world. Under estimate the masses at your own  peril.