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Gmail Peter Burgess
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Peter Burgess
Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 12:41 PM
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Dear folk
The question of Donald J Trump's 'legitimacy' is in play in the recent news cycles after John Lewis used this word when he spoke out about the President Elect.
About 76% of voting age Americans did NOT vote for Donald Trump. They either did not vote or they voted for someone else. Of the 24% that voted for Trump, many voted 'holding their noses' because of his many flaws.
President elect Trump has won the election according to the rules, but I would argue that he has a very limited mandate for much of what he seems to want to do.
The one thing that most of the American people would like to see is a US economy that makes the world a better place ... starting with more income for the American work force.
Trump may know how a simple business works ... being a property developer is one of the simpler businesses (and golf courses !!!) ... but the global economy, and geopolitics are not simple and the approach that results in a zero sum result with Trump the winner in a simple business does not work in the bigger real world.
The world is full of nice people who simply want a better life ... not huge wealth ... just a life that is a bit better and with less worry about a host of little things. The American business model for success is no longer the sensible way to move forward. There are better ways and it seems that none of Trump's appointments embrace the idea of a better world for everyone. This is sad, and this is dangerous.
I am old enough to remember London during the bombing of the Second World War ... in 1944 I was 4 years old and living in London. Military solutions should be a last resort, but American diplomacy had been underfunded for decades ... and nobody in the public policy establishment seems to be concerned about the existential threat of global structural unemployment and the associated poverty and instability and uncontrolled migration that this will create ... not to mention the added stress arising from accelerating climate change. This is one of the underlying reasons for movements like ISIS and many other violent groups that can prey on and recruit underemployed and hungry youth.
In the sense that Trump won the election according to the rules, his Presidency is legitimate. But the fact that he used lies and misinformation and rudeness and insults to build support for his candidacy makes him illegitimate in my eyes ... and in the end 76% of Americans of voting age did not vote for him.
When President Obama won the Presidential election in 2008, the Republicans did not form a 'loyal' opposition but rather did everything to make him fail. Fortunately they did not succeed, but they tried very very hard. President Obama is handing off the Presidency with the country in way better shape than it was eight years ago.
Trump won the election in large part because of the quite reasonable demand for policies that result in more income for people who depend on work for their income. There is much more work now than 8 years ago, but structural unemployment is a serious problem and not well understood. American business owners / managers / investors have chosen to source their products in Mexico and China because it is more profitable to do that ... nothing really to do with Government and trade deals ... it is simply more profitable ... and business games the system to optimize for profit and pays no penalty for anti-social behavior and rather little for anti-environmental behavior. Will Trump be able to change this aspect of business decision making in a political environment where there is an ideology of less regulation is always good! ... and less taxes is always good ... and less government debt is always good ... and more growth ... and more productivity ... and ... and ... and
These are worrying times ... and Donald J Trump and his ideas add to the sense of foreboding and insecurity.
Peter Burgess
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