Originally Posted by
Kano
He can't do shit because he's a figurehead. The people behind and above him run the show. He can't cut ties with the Saudi's because they need the oil. He can't stop the arms trade because war makes too much money for America. He can't fuck with the banks because they hold and control the financial structure of the world so integral to keeping everything just about ticking over.
This wasn't a vote for Trump. It was a vote for themselves. Worn down by decades of lies and broken promises. They are desperate for anything different. Of course, in a few years they'll realise that they've been tricked again but hopefully real change comes once people fully give up on the jokers who fuck them over every half a decade. Austerity, broken families, societal breakdown and increasing poverty wasn't going to lead to dead ends, something had to give in the end. As we saw here with Brexit, Le Pen to come in France, how Austria almost experienced. Voting numbers have been declining for decades and people are close to rock bottom, not yet, but almost. It couldn't continue forever and there could be madness to follow but out of destruction comes something new. Who knows what that is right now but it can't remain like this forever.