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Clarissa's Blog 
I told you that we should never “vendre la peau de l’ours avant de l’avoir tué”.
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I couldn’t bring myself to think so lowly of Americans.
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Trump is about to win Pennsylvania. Wow.
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People aren’t stupid. This is the result of 30 years of neoliberal thought that education is job training.
P.S. The Canadian Immigration website has just crashed due to high volume of inquiries.
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Exactly. You make people stupid and they do a lot of stupid shit.
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I’ve been saying that neither result would really surprise me but I’ve been thinking for the last week or so that Trump would win (minus significant vote fraud).
It’s 1976 all over again (plugging my blog again). An establishment candidate offers essentially more of the same and an outsider promises something different…..
Every political movement carries within it the seeds of its own destruction and neoliberalism (dominant in the US since 1980) has had its first pushback.
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Trump is an anti- neoliberal outsider like I’m a Putin admirer.
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The classic mistake is to look at what the candidate is or says. To understand why people vote the way they do it’s necessary to lsiten to their supporters.
I’m not saying Trump can or will offer any pushback against neoliberal thought, just that that’s what voters want if Trump doesn’t deliver (because he can’t or doesn’t really want to) there will be someone else.
Hardly anyone really believes in neoliberal thought anymore except for those isolated from some of its less appealing real world effects (like Clinton).
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They are overfed, bored and pouty. That’s all. Let’s not look for complexity where there is none. It’s the bored people voting.
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The first thought that got me to get out of bed this morning, was that i was waking to Hilary and the first thing i did is check the result on this very blog. When i read the title of your posts, i was stunned and could not bring myself to believe.
I am also afraid of the consequences of this election on other countries, and especially mine(France). That a person with those values rise to power in a democratic country, and really the quintessential one, will give confidence to the populist parties but also credence.
I did not think the front national could be elected next election(may 2017) but now i do since the party is high in the polls, our president a “catastrophe ambulante”(walking disaster) and now their supporters have seen it is possible to make it happen.
To change topic (or not ?), Reader Cliff Arroyo said in a post that fluidity would be detrimental to women in the West, as values from other places defavorable to women will overtake Women’s Rights. This was an interesting analysis but now i do not know what to make of this when the president of the first power in the world is someone who made debasing comments on women and he does not come from “other places”.
Lastly, this morning i received 2 messages from my sister, the second one being ” call me tonight, we need to talk”. There was no exclamation punctuation as she usually uses but i could feel the anger and guess the topic will be about the American elections. As we are being the children of immigrants( not from the immigration looked upon favorably) and not having reach a quarter of century( thus having lot of times to through in front of us), i understand her anger and fear.
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