All Hail Trump !
More seriously, americans had to choose between plague and cholera. While trump mostly has stupid and inadaptable policies, he obviously won't do at least half of what he's been saying. I don't know how America will turn out to be, but at least he hasn't foreign policies as bad as [corrupted]Clinton, who's not better, if not worse, than Trump.
If Donald won, it's mostly because both Obama and Clinton failed at countering him, and because the american polling system is an indirect universal suffrage, which means that it's choosen representatives of each of the 50 states who voted, and not the whole country.
Both Hillary and Trumb are the living incarnations that populism is currently the most effective way to get votes. There are basically on the first side the white [men?], the WASP, and more globally all the frustrated who voted for Trump, and the women who voted for Clinton because she is one herself, and because Trump is kind of a mysogine, and the ethnic group Trump is targetting on the other side.
The only thing I'm relieved about is that Clinton had really .. warring? foreign policies and was really corrupted, while Trump is more careless on this point, and at this stage I'd rather choose someone unexperienced than someone corrupted. On the very least he isn't gonna make war to numerous middle-east countries, not going to destroy Al-Assad and leaving Syria vulnerable to another islamic coup d'etat, and he's not going to start a cold war again with Russia.
I read some posts about how LGBT community will be treated, but even if Trump and his staff are homophobic jerkass, they probably won't do anything in terms of law, he has other priorites and he has nothing to benefit from doing that. Sure, Clinton was better than him on this point, but Trump won't harm the LGBT community much, all he'll probably do being occasional homophobic lines during his speeches.
It still remains pretty bad overall for the world, but all we can do is wait to see how things will turn out.
Nya-chan said :
Condolences.
Sadly, the same could happen in our country [France] in 2017, our extreme-right winger rascist party becoming the most popular, just like it was for Trump.
Platon wasn't totally wrong when he said that the finality of any democracy is absolutism ... the question being if absolutism is necessarily a bad thing.
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