Whether they are thrilled with the outcome of the election or horrified by it- on top of all the requisite liberal hand-wringing- a lot of folks are expressing bewilderment about how Donald J. Trump came out on top. People point to his unpolished rhetorical style, his over the top media presence, his ostentatious sensibilities and numerous other insubstantial factors as evidence that he should have lost.
For starters, all of these factors are really just a lot of superficial noise put up by liberal media pundits, a smokescreen meant to help Hillary Clinton win- and as we have pointed out time and time again- they were determined to twist the narrative in her favor.
If you need proof, it can be found on the YouTube channel of Breitbart reporter, Milo Yiannopoulos. He goes backstage at the reporting hub for the main stream media to find all the press seats set aside for reporters whose job it is to cover the election results totally abandoned.
As he put it, they are cowards who cannot stand to have their narrative collapse.
So if it’s hard for anyone to grasp the reason Trump was democratically elected our new president, we give them some slack- because the press refuses to explain it to them in any terms other them calling trump voters racists. Now, with this, unfortunately, necessary preface out of the way, we can explain the real reason Donald Trump has earned his seat in the White House.
Historically speaking, working class Americans have enjoyed an unprecedented level of productivity and personal wealth compared to the rest of the world population. Our incomparably well written Constitution, and the culture that its authors created for us has made this possible. However, over the last 50 to 100 years, to estimate the timeline conservatively, monied interests have seen this massive repository of disposable income as a resource to be exploited.
But frugal, family oriented Americans are not easily taken advantage of.
That’s where the politics of change come in. In this case, we are talking about the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). This treaty championed and signed into law by Bill Clinton gave corporations in the U.S. the right to send the jobs of American factory workers to Mexico (primarily), Canada and other countries. This is why president-elect Trump says Mexico has become the new China.
This is also why he has forwarded his plan to impose a tariff on the products of American based companies who manufacture abroad and import their products- to be purchased by the same Americans whose jobs were sent to Mexico. This tariff would make NAFTA obsolete. Companies that have moved their production lines out or the country would lose the financial benefit of doing so.
It is, in fact, a fine for depriving Americans of their jobs. That is reason number one he took the election.
Then there’s the Trans-Pacific Partnership. This multi-thousand-page document is- in essence- an expansion of NAFTA. It broadens the access companies anxious to export jobs have to other cheap labor markets aside to Mexico. Americans know what it is, despite the Obama administration’s refusal to discuss it honestly. They know that with NAFTA in place, and TPP looming on the horizon, worthwhile jobs in America will soon become a thing of the past.
That’s reason number two.
The next reason has to do with Trump’s promise to ‘drain the swamp,’ to use his words. Americans know that Washington DC is rife with big money interests- global banking interests lobbying furiously on a non-stop basis to bilk more and more money out of the American taxpayer. Trump has promised to end all that.
For years, the taxpayer has been working his fingers to the bone, while politicians work hand in glove with international interests to deprive them not only of their hard earned money- but their very right to even work.
Trump speaks to us plainly. He does not use the management rhetoric and doublespeak that half the country has come to fear, and the other half remains dazzled by. He does not hide behind technical jargon. He makes no vague claims to pursue the greater good.
That’s the third reason.
Finally, he is going to scrap Obamacare. At this point, it is abundantly clear that the Affordable Care Act was designed to fail, to become the single highest expense of those who use it- higher even than most mortgage payments. It is universally understood that Trump will do away with this intensely faulty program.
To put it plainly, there’s one overarching reason behind Trump’s astounding victory- it’s the economy, stupid.
Regards,
Ethan Warrick
Editor
Wealth Authority
