Go Trump!

Go Trump!

Everybody’s so incensed about Donald Trump running for President, but not me. I’m rootin’ for him—and Sanders. It’s Clinton whom I loathe. Were I God, I’d make Sanders and Trump run together to bring about the end of the self-serving, morally bankrupt power-loving establishment’s control of their country. The times, they are a changin’.

I understand the rise of Sanders and Trump as a function of the changes I see in our relationships with media. Whereas once we were all on the sidelines watching the financial élite fight over political power through the eyes of journalists in the employ of said same financial élite, we are now in the age of the Internet and “social media” wherein centres of power want direct contact with their members, customers, investors, etcetera.

I believe that we, as individuals, have incredible power now — more than we have ever had before. Social media is allowing billions of us to connect quickly and easily around social/political/economic issues that concern us.

A very recent (and wholly Canadian) example of our power is how “we” have forced Earl’s to abandon their plans to source their meat in the US and return to buying from Alberta Farmers. “We” have bypassed banks with Kickstarter, “we” have broken the strangle hold the dying behemoths of print and broadcast media had over our opinions by aligning with web-based media that better matches our values and “we” have chosen Sanders and Trump over the favourites of a dying establishment clique.

I see only triumph in the rise of these two men—our triumph, not theirs. Most everyone I meet who hates Trump loves Sanders and they like Sanders a lot. So you see, we are winning. A huge percentage of us are experiencing an alignment with a candidate eschewing values far closer to our own than ever before. For me, Sanders is even better than Obama because he is not beholding to the élite as Obama has been—less so in his lame duck years.

Sure Trump is an idiot, but so is a large percentage of the American population and now they have the candidate that they want and so do my fellow humanists and I in Sanders. If they were to run together, action would require these two men to negotiate a position and there would finally be weight and meaning in the office of Vice President. Wouldn’t that be better than the ridiculous polarity and extremism of the party politics Americans have now?

We are watching a huge shift in power and its being done civilly (with the exception of Mr. Trump) — certainly without arms. We are experiencing, I think, a golden age for democracy wherein the individual has far more power and the corporations retain their financial domination but lose their control over us. We have taken their most powerful tools away: Mass media and establishment political parties.

Go Trump! He’ll lose; don’t worry. He won’t be president and neither will Birney. But they will both be new centres of power regardless of who wins.  If Clinton wins, “we” are going to stick with Bernie and Trump, and with others we will find who represent us and not the rich. The writing is on the wall.