I've watched out of touch, American media pundits blabbering on, all week, about #Trump & the end of Hillary Clinton's political career.
What they fail to admit, is the surprise landslide is their own fault. That superior "whatever you think you know about anything, little person, is only what we want you to know" mentality of the complacent power-elite, has caused the applecart to be well & truly overturned.
#VanJones - the #Democrats anti #Trump pundit on #CNN can't seem to get past the injustices of slavery - I don't think anybody should *ever* get past slavery - the impact of which most of us, particularly white people, will never, fully comprehend. But we're not talking about slavery, here. We're talking about the future, not the past, and it's important we remember history, but that we also, somehow, move forward.
The biggest problem about the result of #election2016 is that pundits like #VanJones propagate the myth that this unexpected & unpredicted upset has all come about because of #whitelash against the gains made by the newly-enlightened age of Obamaism.
I'm really uncomfortable about this deflection, and if the blame game's what we're playing, then it needs putting, squarely where it belongs, which is at the feet of the teller elites in US society who've been telling Joe Public, from the #rustbelt that his world is better for changes he can't see, but he's also being asked to pay for.
On that note, let's also consider the Democratic, counter-blame strategy of the mysterious, yet all-encompassing SecretVoter
Here, the basic untruths of #VanJones are exposed. He admits to 8% black vote for #Trump - I'm not sure how this is arrived at, & considering the arrogant errors of pollsters lately, is worth even evaluating - but these are #CNN publicised & #VanJones commentated figures. The other is the much larger percentage of naturalised #hispanic voters - reportedly in the 20s of %s.
If anybody can help with these figures, I'd appreciate it - I'm not part of the elite, numbers-to-backup-theMoney machine in UK or Washington, so I frankly don't have their propaganda tools to hand.
All I heard #VanJones say was that no poor black people voted for #Trump - as if this is some sort of vindication.
What this is more likely to be, is an indication that, as I predicted about the #Obama promise of change in 2008 being hollow, beyond the colour of the skin of an American president, it's actually resulted in little tangible change of any real world consequence.
Ironically, the hidden, privileged black #secretvoter that the #HillaryClinton post mortem team seems to be blaming for their defeat, is most likely the disaffected 2008 #Obama supporter who prospered under the 8 years of the Democrats, but can't see #HillaryClinton continuing to support their own self interests.
So the spin being spun, is that these voters, #hispanic & black, want to pull up the ladder on their "own kinds" who haven't made it TO the USA yet, or haven't made it IN the USA yet, & also don't tell the "honorable" pollsters, the "truth-seeking" media, or even the members of their own family, honestly who they were intending to vote for.
Please note, the above discussion is only my opinion, arrived at through my fairly patchy surveillance of #CNN & other media reports, so it's not the truth, or anything.
However, having seen attempts by the British media, political establishment and #VoteRemain #remoaner #Remaintards to publicly scapegoat & vilify those who democratically voted in the #EUref to #Brexit, I sympathise with the #Trump #secretvoter & the working class whiteman #rustbelt voter, because those they've sent the clearest message to about their own ignorance, will never produce the soul searching to realise what it is they didn't do, that led to this bizarre state of affairs.
Please also note, that I was a #BernieSanders supporter who realised the political elite behind the campaign of #HillaryClinton would never permit anybody so un-American to rule the USA, so was unsurprised when he was so ruthlessly deposed by them so #HillaryClinton could run against #DonaldTrump.
Obviously, therefore, I never supported #thedonald for #election2016 & even assumed I'd wake on 9 November to another, lacklustre & disinterested Democrat Presidency.
Instead, we're faced with the unknown quantity of #Trump & whatever happens, in typical USA fashion, it wouldn't surprise me if we're looking forward to the absolute opposite of what we were promised.
