Shenali D Waduge

There will never be an election as the 2016 US Presidential Election. It completely devastated predictions by all types of political pundits, it rose above the ridiculing, sneering, lies and exaggerations by mainstream media (foreign & local) who projected him as Hitler canvassing unethically for one candidate, it has embarrassed the high profile endorsements against him from celebrities, to even former Secretaries of State and even foreign leaders who openly endorsed Hillary, hysteria was developed with people claiming to leave the country if he was elected, 1008 coconuts were broken by pro-LTTE Tamils to bestow merit to Hillary, social media campaigns including Google and Facebook were also against him including Republicans on behalf of whom he was contesting, all 5 of the living Presidents did not endorse Trump but the silent majority believed in his slogan ‘Make America great again’ and they silently waited and voted and made Donald Trump the President of America. It was a true election in which the people had a say and not donors. That say has shaken the entire world and has given the rest of the countries where democracy prevails hope for voters that they too have power to make real CHANGE and not the CHANGE that elite establishments demand of them and even candidates without high profile endorsements, globally smeared can emerge President of the most powerful country in the world.

You can fool all the People some of the time,
And some of the People all of the time,
But you cannot fool all the people all the time

–       Abraham Lincoln

The list of campaign endorsements for Hillary propped by the media coverage given throughout the anti-Trump campaign did not defeat the morale of ordinary Americans to whom President-elect Trump has assured “I pledge to be president for all Americans,” adding: “The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer.” It was America’s Brexit moment where the majority had silently suffered the neoliberal policies, terrorism they found was engineered by their own and was responsible for stifling their rights and freedoms on the pretext of protecting their national security. It came to a point that people were now able to read through the lies, the bogus assurances and promises and see-through the deceits.

There is also the possibility that those that funded the Hillary campaign cut a hawkish deal with Trump and switched allegiances reading the pulse of public sentiment. This possibility is more likely given the lists of names now appearing to make up his cabinet. What is also noteworthy is that Trump as a businessmen is not part of the US political system, the administration which continues whatever donkey or elephant representative comes into power. He was certainly not plucked and promoted by any Think Tank as was the case with Obama, so the likelihood of Trump who has his own business and vision for the country being implemented against the wishes of the existing system is bleak. At an international level we need to understand this. However, he will no doubt uplift the lives of the American people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hillary_Clinton_presidential_campaign_endorsements,_2016

The is what Huffington Post had to say of Trump

”serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist, birther and bully who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims  – 1.6 billion members of an entire religion  –  from entering the US.”

http://theduran.com/list-media-companies-donated-clinton-foundation-slush-fund/

(all those that campaigned against Trump)

The contender lined up against Trump was a veteran politician but her loss has shook the entire neoliberal establishment. Her campaign was mired in controversy as a result of Wikileaks disclosures, she was seen as a puppet of the neoliberal elites and she had no inspiring slogans to make people believe in her. She failed to inspire the voters and the media that tirelessly campaigned for her overdid the campaigning. The people silently waited. It was a classic case of you can’t fool all the people all the time. It was a sign and message to all other leaders who are also fooling the masses, stirring the minorities against the majority, raging and ranting against nations, drumming war – all of which the people had now got fed up of. Even the ethnic minorities surprisingly backed Trump. (83% of US population are white)

People now searched for peace, people did not buy the accusations against Russia and President Putin and it is a lesson for those attempting to ridicule China too. All the countries that became willing puppets of the war mongering US government will now find themselves stranded as it is unlikely that Trump will continue the war drums and antagonism that were part and parcel of the Obama-Clinton political strategy. His speech unprepared by others and delivered from his heart gave hope to the world.

We wish to have ‘great relations with nations…. Willing to get along with us’. 

He assured that he would put his citizen’s first ‘we will dream beautiful things for our country’ adding ‘we will put America’s interests first – but we will deal fairly’. These words were welcome to the bulldog manner the previous regime ran governance through mostly Indian sepoys serving as slave labor to the whims of the US establishment. He gave hope to countries of the rest of the world ‘we will seek common ground not hostility, partnership not conflict’. These may be words of the President-elect but given that he was not part of the establishment but an astute businessmen knowing how to pull deals squarely and fairly, we look forward to Trump re-aligning US policy to one of cordial relations on mutual goodwill rather than the current bull-dog approach being applied. In fact in Putin’s congratulatory speech he echoed the sentiments of all of us saying that Russia looked forward to ‘mutual ties’ ‘sustainable development’ friendlier relations – all of the ingredients the rest of the world expect from the most powerful country in the world. America can become great again if it is giving inspiring leadership and not preaching what it does not practice as was the case under Obama-Biden-Clinton. Welcome news is Trumps decision to withdraw from the Trans Pacific Partnerships, reallocate the billions allocated for UN towards uplifting America’s needs, cancel every unconstitutional executive action, memorandum and order issued by President Obama, repeal Obamacare and these are certainly points that the yahapalana government should well take stock of given the detrimental nature of what they are proposing to do to Sri Lanka.

The rest of his to-do list looks impressive –http://www.npr.org/2016/11/09/501451368/here-is-what-donald-trump-wants-to-do-in-his-first-100-days which is probably why Putin has cautioned Trump on the possibility of assassination  attempts on his life.

A new inclusive political framework will definitely change the political landscape globally. As for Sri Lanka, does Trump even know a country like Sri Lanka exists? Remember, George Bush did not know where India was! However, given that the LTTE terrorist lobby funded Clinton even during her previous stint and was responsible for much of the antagonism Sri Lanka faced via the UN system and through partner UK-EU and Canadian counterparts, it is advised that a proper picture of Sri Lanka is presented to the Trump camp before the tigers infiltrate and brainwash with lies and myths and requests are made to investigate LTTE terrorism and material support from US of all the LTTE fronts proscribed in 2014. As a result of Sri Lanka’s current leaders unfairly aligning to separatist, divisive politics and policies of the previous US regime, our country has become unstable. These short-sighted policies have endangered all of the countries in Asia by becoming willing lapdogs of US imperialism and alienating our traditional friends whom even the Trump camp respect.

These are all lessons for the Sri Lankan politicians. First is that people cannot be fooled all the time, the network of media and others who are consorts of crooks will get exposed one day, there is a growing silent majority that should not be neglected, when they rise the repercussions are shocking, governments must serve the entire nation and not a handful something yahapalana and Colombians and LTTE separatists need to take stock of, playing minority against majority has now come a cropper, one’s crooked past will one day get exposed and lead to one’s downfall, the truth will prevail, nature will ensure that. All these expose and ridicule all of yahapalana’s strategies and explains why the President, Prime Minister or even Foreign Minister have yet to send congratulatory wishes to President-elect Trump.

The world looks forward to Trump steering America undoing and rebuilding its lost and tarnished global image. If Trump with his business acumen can do that he would have achieved what no other President has done after a string of illegal invasions and bloodshed all of which make America and Americans hated by the world. President Trump must rebrand America to a nation rebuilding bridges of mutual benefit.

Sri Lankan peace loving public wish him well.

 Shenali D Waduge

• Media endorsements for Hillary http://www.businessinsider.com/hillary-clinton-endorsements-newspaper-editorial-board-president-2016-2016-9
• Celebrities that denounced Trump – http://www.amny.com/news/elections/celebrities-against-donald-trump-1.11550611
• 70 Republicans who supported Hillary Clinton (included George Bush Snr & Junior and even Colin Powell) http://www.amny.com/news/elections/celebrities-against-donald-trump-1.11550611
• http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/here-are-the-republicans-whove-endorsed-hillary-clinton/article/2599800
• http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/who-winning-election-2016-results-9221771– The states won by Trump