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Alternatively, he or she may drive the country to the far left, with political correctness, and a new socialism- albeit a socialism that is uniquely American - that will clobber the 1% with a 70-90% tax.

There will be no moderate America after 2016. In other words, right of center and left of center politics will be placed on the backburner of politics for a generation. Political Correctness will become a bad word to the right. On the Left, Political Correctness will gain depth and greater traction.

The US will either veer extreme right, with a right wing Americana that is hostile, aggressive, insular, and separatist, or it will adopt an extreme left wing culture that will empower the Supreme Court as Protector of a value system that will make gay marriage, abortion rights, and atheism, central to the American way.

Another matter is this one: whatever cultural and social trajectory the US is after November 2016, the new Post 2016 America will affect these Caribbean Islands in ways yet to be determined. US values influence Caribbean culture through an all pervasive media and entertainment machine that is controlled by internet and technology corporations.

Now, Donald Trump is succeeding because he has tapped into core values held by a significant percentage of the US population. This is a value system that is white, blue collar, gun loving, anti foreigner, anti immigrant, militaristic, isolationist, and very angry.

The white working class is angry because presently it is losing the values and culture war. It has already seen its income and standard of living decline precipitously owing to globalisation and outsourcing. It places the blame for this squarely on the 1%, and the American political and social elite.

However, Supply Side Economics and Trickle Down which for 30 years and more has rigged the Capitalist Model, and allowed just 60 billionaires to own over three quarters of global wealth is not the only reason Joe is losing in the wealth and power stakes.

The phenomenon called the “Rise of the Rest” has seen emerging economies with similar technological, and manpower, as First World Economies.

This phenomenon has led to the creation of a new global middle class of over a billion souls. These are men and women with similar skills that were once the preserve of Joe Six pack, but at exponentially lower wage costs. 

Being white and working class once meant being guaranteed the American Dream. This was a three bedroom bungalow in Suburbia, a large garden, and two cars in the garage, one of these preferably a Cadillac. Add the latest appliances to aid Jill housewife whose only work was painting her fingernails and making the home “comfy” for “Joe Six Pack,” as he ambled a factory floor that churned out the goods that made the US the foremost post war industrial power, with no real competition. That has all changed.

Trump himself, the gifted salesman and marketer, and probably America’s most powerful media personality, has wrapped his billion dollar brand in these working class values. Trump is the Classic “Agent Provocateur” for the white working man.

Trump has become the very embodiment of this anti establishment, angry populist ideal. Whether he believes in these values or not is not the point. The fact is this: people who hold those values close to heart see Trump as the man most likely to protect those values. To Joe Plumber, Trump is Mr USA on steroids. Trump is the vehicle that will “make America Great Again.” In other words Trump will return the USA to the 1950s and 60s.

Trump therefore heads a values movement. Trump and his supporters care less about the views of the US Establishment, United Nations, European allies, and minorities’ leaders, representatives, and spokesmen.

Henry Olsen described it best in the National Review of January 2016: “Whether they are the academic, media, and entertainment elites of the Left, or the political and business elites of the Right, America’s self-appointed best and brightest uniformly view the passions unleashed by Trump as the modern-day equivalent of a medieval peasants’ revolt.”

Olsen further believes that these elites, “like their medieval forebears,” mean to crush this revolution by America’s white working class. “That effort is both a fool’s errand for the country and a poisoned chalice for conservatives and Republicans.”

“It is foolish because the reasons the peasants are revolting will not fade easily. Ignoring and ridiculing their concerns, the way European elites have done with their own electorates for most of the last two decades, will simply intensify the masses’ rage, and ensure that their political spokesmen become more intransigent and radical.”

Trump is the herald of a white working class culture that is “mad” with Washington DC, and the lobbyist culture. He is a terror to the American Establishment. He will be a greater terror to white liberals, the politically correct, and America’s enemies, if he moves into the White House in early 2017.

On foreign policy, Trump will not waver at initiating the diabolical codes, and then pressing the proverbial red button, a move that will incinerate those he perceives as threats to the US.

His foreign policy will be militarist, jingoistic, and US centered.

A feeble Congress and Senate may be unable to contain a President Donald Trump and his millions of followers and foot soldiers.

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