TRUMP'S VICTORY AND THE CRISIS OF EUROPEAN ELITES
Donald Trump's victory become a real surprise for many. However, this only increases the significance of this victory.
It is manipulation of rating what had been used against him as one of the most serious and useful methods of election struggle. The technique of artificial overestimation of rating is very well known in Ukraine. By its means Petro Poroshenko had managed to become a leader of in the presidential race for a few months. As for the US, there the method of rating manipulation was obviously aimed at ensuring Clinton's lead over Trump opponent on preliminary figures, which could sow a grain of discouragement and doubts among his voters. But, as we can see, this did not happened. After all, Americans had access to more or less objective results of opinion polls, while those Ukrainians, who were into the election race in the US, had been receiving biased information on ratings mainly from particular Ukrainian media.
It is manipulation of rating what had been used against him as one of the most serious and useful methods of election struggle. The technique of artificial overestimation of rating is very well known in Ukraine. By its means Petro Poroshenko had managed to become a leader of in the presidential race for a few months. As for the US, there the method of rating manipulation was obviously aimed at ensuring Clinton's lead over Trump opponent on preliminary figures, which could sow a grain of discouragement and doubts among his voters. But, as we can see, this did not happened. After all, Americans had access to more or less objective results of opinion polls, while those Ukrainians, who were into the election race in the US, had been receiving biased information on ratings mainly from particular Ukrainian media.
Trump's victory is a result of overcoming of serious obstacles, since his opponent didn't confined with only with manipulations of rating. During the election race Trump had been facing terrible prejudice in media, demonization and labeling, and even with such sophisticated means of propaganda and agitation as a cinema. Indeed, we can conclude that there was a team of screenwriters and film directors who worked for Clinton's campaign; the main focus was made on denigration of the conservative forces promoting a positive image of a woman leader; enough to remember Elizabeth McCord, a charismatic character from the "Madam Secretary" TV series or a story of the senator Charlie Rohan's desperate struggle against against the hated "Founding Fathers," described in the thriller "The Purge: Election Year." However, this sort of information manipulations have not yielded the desired result, and the people, who continue to think own head, brought victory to the conservatives.
Difficult to say what was the main motivation for those, who supported Trump. Whether they voted exactly for Trump or, first of all, against the candidate for the Democratic party? It seems that for many of Americans it was clear that in her policy mrs Hillary Clinton unlikely would be better president than Obama. After all there was a number of factors in Obama's policy, have been taken negatively by a significant part of American society: the attack on the legitimate rights and freedoms (restricting freedom of religion, attack on the right to possess arms), aggressive implementation of gender ideology, condoning to immigration and the growth of interracial tension, inefficient foreign policy.
By voting for Trump, the Americans had been protesting against the extreme left-liberal experiments that have become the main ideological and programmatic vector of the Democratic Party. But we can also say that the victory of Trump is a manifestation of people's fatigue from contemporary American politics as a whole. The venality of officials, their ties to multinational corporations (which Trump repeatedly pointed), isolation from the people. All these factors have generated a public demand for fresh faces. Donald Trump was the one who has earned his wealth by own business, not by lobbying someone's interests, the one who talk about basic things, which have been forgotten by the country's top politicians for years, he has become a good response to this demand.
Despite a number of purely American nuances Trump's presidentship should be considered in the same plane with the strengthening of new, alternative political forces throughout Europe. Public fatigue from ruling political elites is in the air in many countries of the Occident world. However, not every force of those, who are gaining political weight now, can be called consistently right or nationalist. Nevertheless, there is an overall trend, and it not in favor of today's elites, who have formed after the World War 2, especially on the basis of the rebel generation of 1968.
It seems that the current political elite in Ukraine continues to be unprepared for the changes that may occur in the West. In the terms of today the nationalists are the only force in Ukraine which demonstrates ability to look into the future. For example, during his recent visit to the US mr Poroshenko met with Clinton, but hadn't met with Trump; Then the only Ukrainian politician, who has criticized the president's actions was Andriy Biletsky, a leader of the National Corps nationalist party.
There is a simple thing we have to understand - Ukraine have been included into the system of world order on quite unfavorable conditions. And now we must make a great effort to change the situation. Political turbulence in the West, the possibility that new elites will come to the power opens a window of opportunity for us and providing dynamics to the processes in the world. Figuratively speaking we are witnessing the end of era of calm. The winds, that are beginning to blow, would help us to row oars less - all we need is to pull up the sails and use the storm winds properly. The problem is that the ruling elite in Ukraine in general doesn't set a goal to conduct the country by a course of own geopolitical subjectivity, it is interested neither in wind, nor in sails or oars. All it wants is to continue to drift. And the nationalists' main goal is to change the situation since we do adore the storm!
Difficult to say what was the main motivation for those, who supported Trump. Whether they voted exactly for Trump or, first of all, against the candidate for the Democratic party? It seems that for many of Americans it was clear that in her policy mrs Hillary Clinton unlikely would be better president than Obama. After all there was a number of factors in Obama's policy, have been taken negatively by a significant part of American society: the attack on the legitimate rights and freedoms (restricting freedom of religion, attack on the right to possess arms), aggressive implementation of gender ideology, condoning to immigration and the growth of interracial tension, inefficient foreign policy.
By voting for Trump, the Americans had been protesting against the extreme left-liberal experiments that have become the main ideological and programmatic vector of the Democratic Party. But we can also say that the victory of Trump is a manifestation of people's fatigue from contemporary American politics as a whole. The venality of officials, their ties to multinational corporations (which Trump repeatedly pointed), isolation from the people. All these factors have generated a public demand for fresh faces. Donald Trump was the one who has earned his wealth by own business, not by lobbying someone's interests, the one who talk about basic things, which have been forgotten by the country's top politicians for years, he has become a good response to this demand.
Despite a number of purely American nuances Trump's presidentship should be considered in the same plane with the strengthening of new, alternative political forces throughout Europe. Public fatigue from ruling political elites is in the air in many countries of the Occident world. However, not every force of those, who are gaining political weight now, can be called consistently right or nationalist. Nevertheless, there is an overall trend, and it not in favor of today's elites, who have formed after the World War 2, especially on the basis of the rebel generation of 1968.
It seems that the current political elite in Ukraine continues to be unprepared for the changes that may occur in the West. In the terms of today the nationalists are the only force in Ukraine which demonstrates ability to look into the future. For example, during his recent visit to the US mr Poroshenko met with Clinton, but hadn't met with Trump; Then the only Ukrainian politician, who has criticized the president's actions was Andriy Biletsky, a leader of the National Corps nationalist party.
There is a simple thing we have to understand - Ukraine have been included into the system of world order on quite unfavorable conditions. And now we must make a great effort to change the situation. Political turbulence in the West, the possibility that new elites will come to the power opens a window of opportunity for us and providing dynamics to the processes in the world. Figuratively speaking we are witnessing the end of era of calm. The winds, that are beginning to blow, would help us to row oars less - all we need is to pull up the sails and use the storm winds properly. The problem is that the ruling elite in Ukraine in general doesn't set a goal to conduct the country by a course of own geopolitical subjectivity, it is interested neither in wind, nor in sails or oars. All it wants is to continue to drift. And the nationalists' main goal is to change the situation since we do adore the storm!
by Igor ZAGREBELNY
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