Has anyone imagined in the last 244 years that one day in the United States the questions that are usually rarely raised in the backward, semi-democratic or nascent democracies of the Third World will be raised. His party did worse than expected from opinion polls, which saw them at gaining about a third of the support of the opposition.
Or the US President announces before the polls that he will accept the results only when he is declared successful and if the results are contrary, he will be challenged in the courts. The accuracy of the vote is in doubt and it is clearly dishonest to include these votes in the counting after the end of polling time. The counting should be stopped immediately (this does not happen even in the third world).
One would have thought that the US Secretary of State would say to the losing president that it was yet to be determined that he had lost. He will leave the White House later in 2014 (this is not the case in the Third World anymore).
One would have thought that the winning presidential candidate would complain that the body that facilitated the transfer of power under the incumbent president had been barred from cooperating with the newly elected president's interim team. Until then, no body, including the State Department and the Department of Defense, will be able to brief the newly elected president on sensitive issues, nor will it be able to assist the new president in liaising with foreign leaders.
Someone thought that the newly elected president would be contacted by the President of South Korea and the Prime Minister of Australia and then the current President Trump would call the two leaders and say that things are not clear at the moment. Do not contact the person claiming to be the president.
One would have thought that China and Russia would not be among the countries that would traditionally greet the newly elected president, and they would announce the results two weeks after the first official announcement of the new US president. Only then will he be entitled to congratulations.
One would have thought that one day in the United States, the possibility would be discussed in the media that if the President did not leave the White House by January 20, how would this building be delivered to him? Will he be automatically ousted or will the Speaker of the House of Representatives or the Chairman of the Senate temporarily assume the presidency and proceed with the transfer of power?
The tradition so far has been that the losing president decides on important issues by January 20 in consultation with the winning candidate. Rather, the decision on important issues is left to the new administration. But for the first time, the situation is so uncertain that every One wonders whether in the last ten weeks, the armed forces and other agencies have been bound to obey every order of the President, the Supreme Commander, in such uncertain circumstances.
These concerns are compounded by the fact that President Trump is still reshuffling his cabinet and advisers, such as removing Secretary of Defense Mark Asper a week after the election and appointing another of his loyalists, Christopher Miller. The Department of Defense has also made new appointments to three junior positions. Then there is the question of what Trump wants to do. If they want to impose an emergency, they will have to get the prior approval of the Congress and convince the Congress of the concrete reasons for any such unusual move.
Inaugurating a military museum three days ago, General Mark Millie, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee of the US Armed Forces, said: "We have a special distinction compared to other armed forces in the world. The astrologers do not swear by the name of a dictator or an individual, but by the name of the country. For the first time, a routine speech by an American general has been made the subject of debate.
The problem is that Trump's stance, no matter how irrational it may seem in the context of American democratic traditions, cannot be dismissed outright by calling him a madman. Because the current presidential election has the most historic turnout. The winning candidate has got about 75 million votes while the loser has also got 70 million votes. That is, there is only a difference of five million votes between defeat and victory. It is a different matter that Hillary Clinton got 4 million votes in 2016. Despite getting more than 200 votes, the required 270 electoral colleges were defeated due to non-receipt of votes. But Trump is Trump.
Seventy-four percent of all voters in the United States are white, and 55 percent have voted for Trump. Among those voters are the most religious, racist, armed, and peasant whites living in the suburbs. There are a large number of people living in the United States in the 21st century in terms of material innovation but in terms of ideas in the nineteenth century. Most of them have never been out of their state in their lives.
He has no special knowledge of the rest of the world and is not interested in knowing. But since Trump uses his words and thinks like them, let him feel it for the first time.
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