Frightening election statistics about the US

Nov 11, 2016 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

I got the following statistical information from the Guardian newspaper of the UK. It tells the story of a dying exceptionalism in the US. Exceptionalism is a term every US President in history, including Barack Obama, used to describe the nature and essence of the United States.
After horrible revelations were made known about Donald Trump’s sexual attitude to women, even the hierarchy of the Republican Party had given up on a Trump victory. You simply do not win votes when you are exposed as a person who treats women so horrible, by preying on them.
Trump received 53 percent of the ballots of White women as opposed to 43 percent for Hillary Clinton. What is highly sickening about this statistical information is the knowledge that people had of Trump’s predatory past and the fact that a woman of wide experience was running against him. Yet White women ignored those two pellucid facts and voted for Trump.
How can such a country sustain its tag of exceptionalism? There is nothing exceptional about a country with women voting for a man like Donald Trump.
This election was about race and the world underestimated the capacity of Trump to think. Many of us were labouring under the misconception that with an ever-changing demography, to win the presidency in the US, you have to get substantial numbers of ballots from the Latin and Black worlds. Trump knew this was inaccurate demographic thinking. If the electorate was seventy percent White, then Trump knew he didn’t need the non-white world in America.
He didn’t get the Latino and Black votes. He secured a majority of White male and female votes. That took him past Clinton. Race aside, Mrs. Clinton carried to much baggage in a country where the rich were running away with the wealth and the poor were drowning in poverty. Ordinary Americans saw Mrs. Clinton as establishment figure that courted the rich in the US and offered them concessions. In this sense, the widely held belief that people voted against her rather than for Trump holds sway.
It is doubtful that if she had become President, she would have embraced the economics of Bernie Sanders. Mrs. Clinton is not even semi-radical when it comes to revolutionizing the economy of the US. She had campaigned on a platform of extending the political economy of Barack Obama, but poor Americans would tell you that it was Obama who bailed out Wall Street during the 2008 financial meltdown and they, the poor, did not benefit.
However you look at it, people were really turned off of Clinton, to vote for a questionable character like Trump. To lose to Trump had to be the most painful moment in the entire life of Hillary Clinton. One could have predicted with deadly accuracy that if the Democrats had put up someone without the baggage that weighed down Clinton, Trump would have received a good thrashing. There is another factor that worked against Clinton that is seldom given wide coverage, and that is the symbol of dynasty that she represents.
Modern humans hate dynasties. India had enough of the Nehru clique and voted them out in the last election. Americans are not open to a Kennedy clan in the White House. When Obama appointed Senator Clinton as Secretary of State, he favoured a Kennedy to have Clinton’s Senate seat, but the Democratic Party instantly rejected Caroline Kennedy, daughter of John F. Kennedy. She was a strategist in Obama’s 2008 campaign and Obama wanted to reward her. In the end he had to settle for posting her as ambassador to Japan.
Americans felt that another Clinton in the White House was a dynasty brewing. Bill and Hillary in 2015 made their daughter the head of the Clinton Foundation, no doubt the training ground for political entry. All of that has now gone down the drain. Mrs. Clinton’s political career is over. I am sure America has seen the last of her and her husband in mainstream politics. The question is what happens to the US now.
One has to fear for the worse. There is no way that clique in the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives are going to live with “Obamacare.” One day after the election, the Senate Majority Leader said he wants its abolition. Trump may not come out swinging in the first months, but he will not accept “Obamacare.” That clique is also going to roll back the gains of abortion and many other modern things in the US. The world in another two years will see the final nail in the coffin of exceptionalism.

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One thought on “Frightening election statistics about the US”

Gtloyal November 11, 2016 at 3:20 pm

Would we be seeing the end of exceptionalism or American exceptionalism?
Will the US, under Trump, become just “another” country, leaving a void for some other to fill? Who will be that exceptional country? China? Russia? How will that affect us? Its hard to imagine Guyanese queuing up in front of the Chinese or Russian embassy for a visa to embark on that journey in search of a better life in any one of those countries.
I am betting on Good Ole Uncle Sam. And I’ll dare to say that Trump as president will be working to preserve that same establishment that Clinton represented and to boost the same banks that Obama bailed out while the poor Americans will still be telling you that they are being given the crappy end of the stick to hold.
Its the American way and Trump is just another American!

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