is Don is Good No?

Since the Don has been elected, the market has been on a bit of a tear, everyone seems in awe of his ability to govern via twitter.
I am your voice, he said, all the way through the campaign.
i don't think anything could be further from the truth
It amazing what he got away with.
looking at the new reality of a post truth world, i guess its what we have  become accustomed too.
but i cant help but feel there will be a huge disappointment surface over his term as people basically wake up to the fact they have been sold a pup.
Don will keep building resorts and hotels, with little regard for the battling American.

Democracy is probably dead, well at least dying, or loosing its relevence.
the end of the second world war was when things rapidly changed, and technologies and industrialization started accelerating.

plenty of evidence it abandoned the common man a long time ago.
the reality is globalization has changed the way all democracies and governments interact with each other and their citiizens.
 my friend Paul Haskins has just handed me 2  great works by Joe Bageant, Deere hunting with Jesus "dispatches from Americas rednecks class war, and his more recent work a rainbow pie, a redneck memoir.
these books are a great read, Bageant eloqently steps you through his life, and struggles, with a passion and love of his people that have walked a similar journey.
its an impressive interpretation and insight into how Americans think, and how we as a soscity have reached this point.

some interesting numbers, are that roughly 40 million Americans turn up to vote, but over 70 million own a gun.
but its more than just owning a gun, its a survival thing that came out of extreme povity, if you owned a gun, you could go Deere hunting and Grow your own vegetables, so your family was fed.
And the self suffiecency, gave you a sense of pride and independance, that meant you werent a burden on society.
http://www.alternet.org/story/148237/bitter_tales_from_the_massive_white_underclass_in_joe_bageant's_%22redneck%22_memoir

i think like us in Australia the elitists in power in the US have underestimated and ignored the common man too long.
seems to be a global phenomenon, but is that the problem, or is it Globalization and the rise of companies like google, apple, amazon, facebook, have much more effect on the population than any government could dream off.

But no point complaining, in fact we have to just get on with things forget governments and invest wisely, 

things arent changing anytime soon, as technology keeps marching on and accelerating

If you bought 1,000 Amazon shares in 1997 (after stock splits, you’d now have 12,000 shares), it would have set you back about US$1,500.

If you had done nothing but sit on those shares for 20 years, it’d be worth US$9.24 million today.

so lets look for the next amazon!