AMERICA’S MESSAGE: “I’M MAD AS HELL & NOT TAKING IT ANY MORE!

…President Elect Trump

 

America’s two parties are both in need of refocusing and re-organization.

 

OK, we already knew that 75% of the country had been saying that “the country was headed down the wrong track”.  Apparently, this election of a wealthy mogul and a former, pro-choice Democrat, is what the American voting population thinks is the answer.

 

Let’s face it, both political parties have to look at what happened last night and then decide what needs to be done to get back to their own political basics.

 

The Democrats showed during the primaries, with the strong popular support of Bernie Sanders, that the party needed to go back to it’s support of the average working American, regardless of race, sex or ethnicity.  The progressive party needs to get back to supporting free high education for everyone, available cost-effective health care, equal pay for equal work and support for the basic family unit.

 

There was a reason that FDR and the New Deal were elected four times, as the nation was at the time in the process of growing the first ever, massive middle-class nation.

 

Today, the Dems are a combination of aging Boomers, and young Millennials that are hungry for what was being offered by Bernie, Elizabeth Warren and other progressives.

 

As to the Republicans, it appears that they may be in control of the government, but their party is today split into four separate ideologies.

 

Today we have the following four Republican parties:

 

>>> There is the conventional GOP that is represented by Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, Lindsay Graham and others, plus the Bush family, and of course, all those aging white conservatives.

 

>>> Then there’s the white nationalists that were represented by Donald Trump’s Campaign CEO, Bannon, and the many white men & women without a college degrees that fueled Trump’s many rallies.

 

>>> And we can’t forget there’s the Tea Party Republicans that don’t agree with anyone in their party, or with anyone else.

 

>>> Finally, there the Republicans that believe the nation was founded as a Christian nation and that it should just continue as one.

 

The American voting public told Washington last night that, just as the Howard Beale character said in the movie “Network”: “I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!”

 

All the support for this true outsider, non-politician, Donald Trump, was the nation’s citizen’s way of saying that the obstructionists approach that has occurred over the past 8 years was going to have to stop.

 

The nation wants the politicians they have put in office to get the people’s work done. To get to work on fixing the nation’s infrastructure and to fund the jobs needed to get that job done.  Hey want the US to continue to be the best in the new technologies, the best in transportation, and to have the most modern and powerful military and to be the best in national security.

 

The lack of congressional action over the last 8 years, the lack of jobs, lack of available re-education and the lack of free higher education, have all caused this kind of mass reaction.

 

The voting public is also saying that today there is one set of rules for the American elite, and one set of rules for the rest of the country.  After Wall Street and the big banks caused the worst financial crisis back in 2008, and many Americans lost their savings, their jobs, and their homes……not one individual that caused all of that went to jail.

 

It's issues like that, are what this election was about.

 

Was electing this president the right decision?  We won’t know the answer until it’s understood that those in control have gotten the message.

 

The next 4 years will now tell us if electing a lying ignoramus, a racist, a xenophobe and a dangerous narcissist as the President of the United States was the answer to what the voters were seeking.

 

After last night, there are many open political wounds.....let the healing begin.

 

Copyright G.Ater  2016