The End Result

Donald J. Trump will now be President of the United States of America, the most powerful world leader on the face of the Earth. In January he will sworn in and assume his new role and take the office. What started as a joke in the minds of Americans has become reality. How did this happen?

Let us go back in time, to the beginning, in 2015. The origins lay in the primaries, the early success of Rand Paul, Trump's rapid rise, and the massive movement behind Bernie Sanders. 2016 was the year of the outsider, a movement against the establishment. Even the third parties, particularly Gary Johnson gained more recognition than any other previous year (though it wasn't enough).

Many Americans are tired of the status quo, the established order. Dissatisfaction with the direction of the country, economy, and the continuous unending wars. People feel tired and disillusioned and are looking for a change. Obama promised "Hope and Change", and yes we did get a new health care system, troops were pulled out of Iraq, Osama Bin Laden is dead, Net Neutrality was protected, and LGBT rights were expanded. However people are facing rising prices on Obama care, the war on terror has expanded, the government's invasion of privacy hasn't ended, and not everyone is seeing an improvement in the economy. Many people see the government as an overbearing parent rather than an institution that is designed to with and for them.

The seeds of what happened last night were sown of the course of the last sixteen years through government regulation, intervention, and poor foreign policy. The President isn't the only one to blame though, one must look at Congress as well. They pass laws, approve the budget, and confirm the President's Supreme Court appointments. Our government was setup with checks and balances that prevent one group or person from having all the power.

I am still trying to comprehend what happened last night, only few times in American politics has anything this unprecedented happened. Though for the reasons stated above, we can understand why this happened. Granted, the requirements for being President are, that you have to be an American citizen and 35 years of age, but most have had some form of political experience.

This has been one of the most amusing, irritating, annoying, and frustrating elections that I have ever seen.  What the next four years will entail is a mystery, who can say when the one entering office is an outsider to the political club.

This is a new frontier in American politics and who knows where it will lead, it could be good or bad, hopefully good. The only thing we can do is wait and see.