This is what they voted for.
I am unsure whether the full implications of what this means is understood.
I guess most would say :
"Well ....they voted for him and they get what they voted for".
Of course this would read better as :
"Well ....
they voted for him and
WE got what they voted for"
and given the global implications the WE is a big WE.
If I am not mistaken the majority of those USA eligible to vote citizens, decided to not vote thus passing the responsibility to those that did.
With this in mind it could be said that:
"The USA got what it voted for" ( by deferral/delegation of vote or direct vote)
but given the global implications, the impotent world got what the USA voted for.
The point:
It isn't those who voted Trump that are most responsible for Trump. It is those who didn't vote (
for what ever reasons) and deferred or delegated their democratic responsibility to others that are.
"for evil men to accomplish their purpose it is only necessary that good men should do nothing." ~ attributed to Reverend Charles F. Aked -1916
As indicated by our nightly local media interest in USA politics, constant scandal, crisis and general dynamics, one could infer that the Australian public is deeply concerned about what appears to be ill advised decision making in the USA administration.
Example:
It is very obvious to most here that the USA wishes to remove itself from the INF treaty so that it can pursue weapons development and sales that would other wise not be legitimate under international treaty.
That the USA is desperate in attempting to shore up it's trade deficit(s) using the sale of military hardware to do so. To do this is impossible in a relatively peaceful world and obviously aggravating conflict and provoking new conflicts would be well suited to it's military sales agenda.
"Smells like a duck, walks like a duck, looks like a duck, is a duck"
so....
We in Australia and those around the world have to somehow accommodate the deliberate attempts by the USA to destabilize the world so the USA can make a fast military sales buck at every one else's expense.
It is worth noting that China has just opened a sea bridge that connects Honk Kong with the mainland.
That Russia also recently opened a sea bridge between Crimea and Russia. Both bridges extraordinary in engineering accomplishment and all the USA can do is burn bridges and seek to build walls.
As Putin cleverly put it ( to the effect of):
"Has the Eagle eaten all the Olives and only has arrows remaining?"
