For me there were two reasons I wanted trump to win the election.
The first was to do with international politics and conflict. As I see it recent western foreign policy has been an utter disaster. It's led to wars around the world that wouldn't otherwise have happened, destruction of communities and cultures and the spread of terrorism and murder. I also regard the current warm war with russia as being at least as much due to american aggression and posturing as to russian aggression and posturing, and probably a damn sight more. Whereas clinton promised a continuation of the same, trump appears ro me to want something different. He doesnt want to push russia into a corner, he wants to work with them. He doesnt want to pursue regime change in syria at all costs, he appears to be happy for the slaughter to end even if that means the existing government remains (and the UN envoy to syria has spoken enthusiastically about this potential change in approach already).
The second reason is to do with our society, and the influence of minority rights groups and those advocating their causes. I am all for equality of respect and opportunity. What I am not for, is civil rights groups and the like, continually labelling people by their race and gender, and inventing a narrative of inequality when there is none, and creating a culture which might be described as, "positive inequality", and allocati guilt and blame where none is due.
Every day, sources such as the BBC website and Linkedin Pulse, run stories about minority abuse, that far more often than not amount to a complete nonsense. I regularly see alinkedin promoting articles such as those with headlines about recruitment staff being prejudiced about non whites, which have about 10,000 people liking it or commenting what a disgrace it is, who have clearly not considered it necessary to read the article and establish that its contents and analysis demonstrates no one iota of prejudice. The BBC website, runs p.c. articles on its main page every day. Today there's a "story" about the world snooker body not doing anything to encourage black players. Yesterday there was an article about the website's quest to find the woman of the year, and a story about "sexism in Egaming". The day before, one of the main headlines was about peter kay making a remark on come dancing that about 5 people had considered, "homophobic". We are told every day that women are prejudiced against in society, whether it's because more of them work part time than men or because they have to pay tax on tampons, when from what i can see the only real issues in our society that i can see regarding gender, are those which disadvantage men (far greater suicide rates, far higher rates of death at work, positive discrimination in the workplace, disadvantaged in the courts etc etc), but we see nothing of this in the press. I for one am absolutely sick to the back teeth of it. Of being lectured on a daily basis about gender and racial equality, by the very people who identify people based on their gender or racial background, of hearing that school kids get special lessons about how privileged women should be, etc etc wtc ad infinitum.
I don't want to be privileged as a man. I dont want to be privileged as a white person. And i dont want to be judged by either, or expected to judge or value people based on their gender or their race. In my humble opinion, people are not defined by their race or their gender, but are different from one another as individuals. I don't want to be told by the press and by our politicians ad infinitum that women are these and white people are the other. So far as I'm concerned, they can **** off.
And I don't want people telling me i'm not allowed to have such views. That i have to regard all women in a particular way, or feel guilty about the slave trade because im white, or whatever it is.
And i suspect that a lot of trump's supporters had the same, "go **** yourself attitude", with people not only disregarding their views, and their disenfranchisement, but labelling them as deplorables or haters for holding their views and for feeling disenfranchised.
And I'm sick of the press that controls us all, all peddling out the same line day in day out, in what i see as a completely unbalanced way.
I don't have much hope, but I have a tiny little bit of hope, that President Trump, can do something to sort this bullshit out. To not treat those outside the liberal left bubble as wicked haters, but to listen to their concerns too, and to try to include them in society in the same way that minority groups have been included.
Good luck to him I say.
