Friday, November 11, 2016

Election Results

Hillary Clinton won the popular vote.  Trump won the Electoral vote.  This also happened when Bush won the Electoral and Gore won the popular vote.
The bottom line is that the country is evenly divided - there re no mandates for radical agendas on either side.
For the moment, putting aside social issues, perhaps the main area of agreement is that the country needs to find a way forward in the post-industrial age.  This is an age where many people have been left behind - the people who have made their living in basic factory industries, ie people without the resources (skills, education, abilities and more) to thrive in this service and technological world.
The problem is that Republican Party wants to address this problem by reducing government and the Democratic Party wants to use government to help those struggling.
Healthcare is a perfect example.  Republicans look to employers to cover health insurance (which excludes those without good jobs) while Democrats seek to supplement available health insurance with a government program.  The problem is the health industry lobby - how can the country get rid of private insurance companies and go to a straight forward government system for all?
Affordable college is another.  How can young people enter the work force saddled with huge debts?  And, without a college education, really, without an advanced degree, how can young people find well paying jobs?
The best I see on the immediate horizon are tax cuts and infrastructure repair.  Which will balloon the deficit.  Beyond that, I see Republicans trying to impose an agenda that more than half the country doesn't want.
A good strt would be a Supreme Court nomination of a moderate, which, by the way, is exactly what Barrack Obama did.

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