I don’t know if this is appropriate for my Lokalidad
Blog, but I believe that the result of the US presidential election will certainly
have an impact on the Philippines and the Filipinos.
As you may already know, Donald Trump has been
triumphant on winning the Presidential seat of the most powerful country on
this planet, the United States of America. Donald Trump was declared the winner
over Hilary Clinton after garnering 276 electoral votes, while Hilary Clinton
had 218 electoral votes at that time. Some say that this was a miraculous
victory, I say let’s wait until we see the results of such a win before
declaring it as anything.
I kind of expected Donald Trump to win. After the
victory of President Rodrigo Duterte in the recent Philippine Elections, it’s
an easy prediction to say that Donald Trump will win the US Elections. There have
been many anti-Obama and anti-Democrat statements and views. It is a simple
case of choosing whether people would still want to have 4 more years of
democrat experience. In which case, the voters chose that they do not want
that.
Another view is the idea that the US is still
inherently filled with racist ideologies. The voters who voted for Donald trump
seem to follow his American Supremacy campaign. This speaks a lot about the Americans’
views. I just hope that nothing cruel would come out of the ratification of the
supremacist view. I hope that there wont be blatant violations of Human Rights.
It is without doubt that things will change in the
US. We just do not know if it is for the good or the worse. We also do not know
for whose good the change will be. One thing’s for certain, Republicans will be
leading the charge this time. The freedom that people in the US are
experiencing will soon be curtailed, in one way or another. And, much like the
Philippines now, US will have a stronger voice on its claims. Diplomacy will
not be as soft as before. And the US won’t be as forgiving as it has been for
the last 8 years.
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