Too soon to talk about the future? Forget the fight, find peace and common ground?
Brits have a deserved reputation for being whinging poms, and I’m beginning to think we’ll never recover from the division of Brexit. Oh, give us a real crisis, and we’re great, none better, but boy, can we whinge the rest of the time.Americans, on the whole, are much more positive about life, and getting on with whatever it throws at them.
I was watching an interview with Donald Trump tonight and I was taken aback a couple of times by things he said.
This has been the dirtiest knock-down drag-out fight political battle ever fought so I think I was expecting more of the same. Not at all. DT sounded calm and purposeful and even said the Clintons were 'good people'.
What?? No one involved in Brexit has said anything close to rational about opponents YET, and it was ages ago!
Made me wonder. All the anger will be passing soon, the democratic bid will be forgotten, what do Americans want, hope, for their future? Whether they voted or not.
Whatever you thought, the same democratic system which has produced every previous president produced this result and that does mean people want change.
What changes do you want? And - what was good, and should be kept in place?
Not just America will be great - how, what will change?
Not just America should have stayed on the democratic path - why, what do you really want to see kept?
This could be the quietest blog ever written
but my blog, my rules. (1) The election has been fought and it is OVER, no rehashing! (okay, edited comment, that changed a bit. Comment will be retained if it makes a valid point leading to discussion
(2) NO SIDESWIPES, INSULTS, JEERS OR GLOATS.
if there is any hatred or contempt in any comment, warning you right now, it will be deleted, Teach us by example. The UK needs to learn how to work together over Brexit.
Comments (72)
You may not get your way, but at least you've had a chance to talk it out
Okay so you want only politicians 'of the people' - can you get 100 people to sign that petition (actually not sure what the minimum requirement is, so this is purely theoretical) because if there are enough people who care about it, it is obviously an issue.
It is entered into the system as an issue worthy of a vote, published, and, eventually, voted on by everyone directly affected - and the further the debate has spread, the more people are directly affected, so it can spread from canton to canton.
If not many people care and there aren't many "no" votes, that's it, it becomes law. In your district only those with a regular education can stand for office.
Ask Cal about noise-making laws. There are a LOT of those!
It may well be the case we have to accept refugees from this community, so be prepared.
The one satisfying thing about a referendum is that every vote counts.
almost as though - no, hear me out here - as though things are better without a majority government in power?
People rebelled against party politics which means neither one of the bigger parties got a majority
and even the two main parties together didn't have enough without the help of smaller parties and independents.
It'll be interesting to see how it works out
Very interesting. I'm beginning to think this coalition and power-sharing stuff could have a key for us.
I can't say I am too upset by politicians being bright enough at the age of 11 to win a place in an education system that has only one bias, the brain you bring to the table.
I'm not saying either of them are a sparkling advertisment for the non-public-school politician, because this is a strictly neutral blog
Still reeling over Trump's win...
But I see now he has accepted Obama care and asked for tolerance...the end of unrest and disrespect...and no wall...
What the Donald has done is underhanded...if Americans wanted division...he has simply plied the crowd with rhetoric...no intentions of following through with his fear based mongering...perhaps we will see a back lash of Republicans questioning his leadership or perhaps Clinton did not spend enough time speaking about foreign affairs regarding trade...protectionism seems to be favored...
However, I cannot see how America will embrace higher costs of living if factory jobs, manufacturing jobs and others are once again being produced in America...
Reality check please...Sanders may have been a better bet...
what's done is done, no going back.
I think most Americans would pay a bit more to buy local if it got sections of the local economy jumpstarted again? I think most of us would. Saving a buck but cutting our long-term noses, so to speak, but instead of putting money into promoting the real benefits of keeping money in-house, so to speak, we go for the cheap and often shoddy option.
I do know I look at supermarket prices of farm-produced goods and I wonder why the supermarkets cut the prices lower and lower, strangling the farmers at the start of the chain. We're being offered more than we need at a bargain price - 2 bags of potatoes for the price of 1, for example - and will waste most of the advantage. I'd truly rather pay a fair price and buy a little less. Well, I do, I buy organic anyway. But the marketing, the mind-set, is worryingly wrong.
It's not just the prices of fruit and veg
What about things like mobile phones which are made in China for half nothing, if the manufacture of those goes locally, it will push up the prices hugely.
Then they will want more wages to pay for the price of everything that has gone up in price, which will be practically everything.
And those people who want pay rises will also include the people working in the manufacturing plants, so then the prices go up again..and so on.
As I understand it (and I wasn't educated here) schooling is free, but you could sit an entrance exam for a free grammar school and get in if you were bright enough.
Then there were fee-paying private schools, some with and some without entrance exams, who could choose who to take as pupils
and the 'public' schools which by law are open to all - well, to anyone who can pay the fees
Did I get that right?
We don't have the same system here.
All I know, is I always think the opposite of what it sounds like and I believe I am right then
The UK market is a multi-billion euro one, EU suppliers are not saying hey, that's sad, I shall produce less now because I have lost a big customer.
I work for a German-owned corporation which is no way about to give up a multimillion pound income.
My previous corporate employers were bought by a Dutch-owned corporation for the lucrative UK market. Ditto.
We buy and sell all round the world, not just in the EU. That won't change. We will lose some trade concessions but you do know, right, that we are working on hammering out more asap? We will most certainly still be trading with the EU.
Don't be negative. Things won't be rosier but they won't be as bleak as you are believing. Things will change but they were going to change in other ways.
I have no idea how the UK one will work out.
But I do think short term at least, the combined changes of policy both in the UK and the US could have huge reverberations around the whole world.
I am not going to get depressed about it or anything
Still, parts of my argument still stand. Fact remains that when anyone has a monopoly, prices rise to silly levels. In healthy competition, suddenly prices drop to reasonable - the manufacturer still makes a living, just not a giant profit, and the buyer is not being gouged.
Unbalanced competition is the killer, and yes levelling the playing field by implying import duties is going to push prices up on the super-cheap.
End of the day, what people really need, they will buy. If enough of them refuse to pay unfair prices and source it elsewhere in the world, local suppliers suffer and will trim their prices as far as they can to stay in the market.
And yes, prices are going to go up. But a lot of what we spend our money on isn't really essential! Well, me anyway. I spent 3 years living on the smell of an oil rag and you would not believe how little you really, really need.
Fingers tightly crossed that all the doom and gloom was wasted energy and brilliant futures lie ahead for us all.
Mewwy Chwistmas and God bless us evewy one.
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NOBODY can command Trump and that is the very positive in him self and opposite to Clinton,he is able to make change in him self and his opinions,depending on the situation and what the situation are needing from him.....that is the brilliance in a Businessman and the big difference from establishment people and people on boxes.
I have never really think about being rational,I have always kept my self as somebody in reality and in the middle of opposites,,but when you are coming up with it,I start to feel,that I'm leaning in the rational direction too....and when I talk about,that when you stay neutral,you can see the facts,that is also in the direction of rational.....but still,if you are rational,you follow everything by using logic and even you don't talk about changing your opinion,it can affect your view of the situation.
Hmmm....I think I almost talk to my self now or thinking loud