I don't like getting political in venues like this - because there is always someone who goes out of their way to be offensive and controversial - but I will give my perspective on things as someone who has lived in and experienced (extensively) the political systems of both the UK and the US.
The entire campaign here was run using little more than the boorish tactics we gainfully employ to try and get our own way on things and to heck with the actual truth - very blatant and obvious truths were completely ignored depending on who you supported. Either Hilary Clinton was responsible for the murder of americans in Benghazi - or Trump was responsible for the murder of thousands of mexican immigrants at the US border - there was no rhyme or reason to it - people just blindly believed it.
We have the same kind of thing in the UK from my experience (reference the interesting meme during the Scottish referendum that I saw on every single pro-referendum friend's page claiming a nuclear explosion was going to take place unless Scotland got its independence and that every single man, woman and child in Scotland would die as a result), but over here in the USA it really feels like it is much worse. Trump and Clinton were both roundly lambasted in the media - and the result is the idiot savante voted for people based upon their contorted views of the candidates' policies - rather than on the basis of any actual policy laid down by the candidate. We did it with Obama, we did it with Bush Junior and we will do it again.
Here's the rub - thing will change - no matter who gets into power. The decisions of the Obama Administration cost me a noticeable $4000 per annum in taxes to provide Obamacare the unemployed, minorities and illegal immigrants but other than that - life pretty much plods along at an even keel for me and everyone I know. Similarly, when I worked for the civil service in London - the Government there lowered the threshold at which I was taxed which put me into the same tax liability zone as millionaires - despite not earning anywhere near enough money to support it - the end result of that was that my mother (a lovely Dundee lass) who has been on welfare since 1972 was exactly 1879.00 pounds a year worse off than I was after all expenses. completely different administrations in completely different countries - with very little substantive change beyond the financial aspect we can expect annually anyway.
So Trump is President - so what? We've had a Nixon and we've had a Clinton. We've had slave owning presidents, liberal presidents, presidents with dementia, conservative presidents, anti-american presidents... we are just like other nations - Britain has its Boris Johnsons, its George galloways, its Tony Blairs, its Gordon Browns (who?) and its Thatchers - but you are all still here - and you have survived....
My only question really is "when are rosie odonnell, Kanye west (and all the Kardashian), whoopi goldberg and Miley Cyrus leaving America like they promised to if Donald Trump won?" I mean how do you point the finger at politicians for not keeping promises when you get our hopes up like this and then renege....
anyways - just my thoughts on a fairly controversial non-topic.
In short - what I think we should take away from it all is that nothing will really change - things will get more expensive because people have been convinced they are victims (every election - that is the winning theme) and when you create a culture of victims - you create a culture of entitlement that someone has to pay to support.
