When Donald Trump was elected as the president, only close
to 63 million people who voted for him were happy. This is 19.5% of the 323
million population of the United States in 2016. The other 80% were either indifferent,
or shocked, or angry; or they were not old enough to vote or care. We don’t
know what percent leaned which way. But those who were indifferent, either did
not care about the politics, or knew his presidency would be the natural
progression of the political condition in this country.
It is a general knowledge that the founding fathers of the
United States were slaveholders. Ben Franklin was a dealmaker, who was able to
guarantee independence of the United States from the British during the revolution. His son William,
however, led an army in favor of the Royalists and against the revolutionaries.
He was imprisoned after the success of the revolution, until daddy released him
and sent him to England to live there for the rest of his life. The most famous
presidents of the United States are George Washington, Woodrow Wilson, and
Franklin Roosevelt. However, it may not be a common knowledge that Washington
became a slave owner at the age of eleven, Wilson was a racist to the core, and
Roosevelt’s New Deal
was a part of a series of demands by socialists, in which he had to accept or
face a revolution. Any of the other presidents’ attitudes towards the majority of people, from Lincoln
to Kennedy, to Carter, to Obama, requires a study to realize that their
presidency summed up in benefiting a very small minority group, the wealthy. We
may grade each president in that respect, however the tendency has been accelerating by each president,
with a sharp spike during Reagan’s
presidency, when Neoliberalism was adopted. This tendency ended up with the
presidency of the multi-billionaire himself.
