Revenge of the Masses

Oh, the media. How they are scrambling to report to us on why it all happened, and how Trump won! Yet those who read the stuff I put out knew that I - and many others - already knew how he could win.

And why he did win.

It was the Midwest, Texas, the old South, Florida and the Northern states that put Trump in. The "fly over" states. The "yee-ha" states. The states that the liberals, the educated and the city slickers of both coasts love to pan on.

I see the NYTimes is busy saying that this is because of folks like us being left behind in the recovery. And yeah, that's part of it. But it goes deeper.

Liberals, though they are far more for the little guy than the Conservatives are, have a really bad habit. And that's their habit of "condescension". And "contempt". Expressed towards the masses.

And frankly, we've been sick of it for decades.

Not actually an average Midwesterner.

Never is there a show or a movie in which the Christian isn't the dullard or hypocrite or serial molester/killer. Never is there a Southerner but that he is inbred and illiterate.
Any thing good or decent that any in the heartland can value is held up every day and in every way as backwards, bigoted and bumpkinish.

And this is all done by the liberals in Hollywood. And the liberal media. And the liberal colleges. And the liberal political establishment in general.

Radical feminism. Homosexual marriages. Gender neutral bathrooms. Islam in Public Schools, Christ out of them. No Christmas decorations in public. Marijuana decriminalized. Drug use winked at. Perversions declared normal. Abortion all but a sacrament. Partial Birth atrocities declared "choices".

They placed their hand on the back of our heads and ground our faces in the filth that they find to be normal. They spat on our values, our beliefs, our customs and our traditions.

And while the economy was good, they were mostly getting away with it, at nothing more than the cost of us sputtering in impotent rage at the injustice of it.

But then the economy tanked, and it was darn obvious who did it. The elite. The very liberals, the very wealthy, the very educated who had mocked us all along. And there they now were, voting themselves billion dollar bail outs while seizing all our homes.

What does that have to do with Trump, who by all sane accounts is a part of the elite, the privileged, the wealthy, the educated, the above it all?

Well, it's like this. Some in the Red States voted for Trump because he lied and said some of the things conservatives want to hear. Some few probably voted for him out of the racism or misogyny or religious bigotry that he exemplified so well.

But a lot of it? A desperate desire to stick it to the man. To game the system. To make a difference, any difference, even a bad difference, if it but annoyed their oppressors. Their mockers. Their rulers who sit in their high places, above the law, while our own kids suffer record incarceration rates for the pettiest of offenses.

Hillary Clinton represented everything radical feminist, everything liberal, everything wealthy and privileged, everything anti-value, anti-religion and anti-God. She was the perfect embodiment of the Establishment Elite that loves nothing better than to stand around at cocktail parties comparing yachts and jets while the masses work three part time jobs to keep the lights on in their trailers and apartments.

Trump was not regarded by many of us in the Midwest as a "little person". "Country don't mean dumb" no matter the opinion of the coasts. Everything bad that could - and was - said about Trump was heard and understood by the masses. And even pretty much agreed with!

Here's the thing. It was obvious this time that the only reason Trump was nominated was so that Hillary could have the easy win. That the elites knew that Hillary was hated, and so gave us a buffoon so buffoonish that we'd all have to vote for the Queen who would rule us in contempt.

But as the German and Russian aristocrats learned in the early 20th century, sometimes the people are so fed up that they're happy to throw a monkey wrench in all the plans, just to express their anger. That they're up for it all burning - and taking themselves out in the blaze first - if only it'll singe the eyebrows of those who feed off of them while laughing at them.

So they vote for Trump, not for necessarily hating Muslims or Hispanics. But for being tired of being ridiculed all the time, mocked all the time, spit on all the time, and paying for it all the time. They vote for Trump not for him to win, but to send a message to Hillary by making it real close.

I understand this. I do. Heck, I contemplated voting for Trump for just that reason. And the only reason I didn't was because as a student of history, I know where that game leads.

It leads to where we are. When so many vote for the bad man - sure that he can't win - that he then actually does win. Then you've the Nazis with a majority in the Reichstag and a paper hanger as a Chancellor. Or the Republicans with a majority in Congress and guy who's never even been dog catcher now the President Elect.

This was what it was. A big thumb on the nose to Hillary and the Establishment Elite. And now it is what it is. A man who cares less for the little people than any limousine liberal ever did. And that's a darn low level of care.

Now we have to wait for it. Wait and see what it will be. On the street, the rumors are flying. I've got four calls today from potential guests, current guests and former guests - "Is it true he's cancelling LINK?" "Is it true he's cancelling Obamacare?" "Is it true that there's to be no more social security?"

My answers are "probably not, probably he'll try and definitely not". But who knows? And will he really round up immigrants? Muslims? What of the Supreme Court? Will we see gay marriage overturned - but labor law gutted? Will we have new taxes on workers, less on businesses? What wars are we in for?

And Russia? Will his cozy relationship with Putin last as long as Hitler's did with Stalin? Will it have the same ending?

Time will tell. But I think we'll survive the four years. I think that one man can't do half as much damage as he - and his detractors - think. And then hopefully we'll have all learned a valuable lesson.

1. Elites, don't mock the people.
2. People, don't try to set the elites on fire unless you enjoy burning up first.