Matisyahu's Blog

Even though I had a sense that the election wasn’t going to go in the direction that the Harris campaign and the online echo chamber believed it would I was holding out hope that maybe Harris could pull off an unlikely victory. Even with my low to almost non-existent expectations I still felt that pain in my stomach, the anxious feeling, the “oh bloody hell not this again”. I’ve been saying this ever since George W Bush was elected in 2000 – the rest of the world need a plan B because the United States is not a dependable ally based on how appallingly ignorant the average American voter is about what goes on not only in their own country but also outside it. I really do hope that a second trump term that we’ll see western countries take the problem seriously rather than believing it’ll all blow over in 4 years and things will get back to normal.

I’m not going to do an exhaustive analysis because I need time to come to terms with the result and properly work my way through it all – I don’t want to rush something out without adequate time spent reflecting on all the factors that fed into the outcome. I’ll just finishing off the blog post by leaving a link to an interview with Bernie Sanders. All I can say is this: As long as we fail to political movement by uniting the working class around a shared economic interest and then creating policies that address that shared economy interest then expect that liberal politics will keep hitting a brick wall as they deny that class still matters in the 21st century.