Here is what we’ve got so far with this Presidential election: <\/p>\n
Positives: <\/b><\/p>\n
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Democracy triumphed\u00a0despite an unfair campaign. People’s choice was respected, smiling Obama is\u00a0shaking smiling Trump\u2019s hand and discussing a smooth transition. This is democracy\u00a0in action, whether you like the person elected by the people\u00a0or not.<\/p>\n
Four States legalised\u00a0marijuana or eased its use \u2014 great.<\/p>\n
One State legalised voluntary euthanasia \u2014 great.<\/p>\n
The Left all over the\u00a0world got a slap in the face \u2014 great! That\u2019s extremely rare nowadays. It’s\u00a0nice to see the Socialists defeated at any time, and even more this <\/i>time, when they were so impertinent, so arrogant and confident to win.<\/p>\n
As we speak, 4,164,589\u00a0votes went for Gary Johnson. Even if we deduct the one-off “both suck”\u00a0protest voters, 4+ million Libertarian calls is not bad for\u00a0a country that once was\u00a0built on Libertarian ideals.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s going to be very\u00a0interesting! Donald Trump will have a colourful mix of achievements and\u00a0failures, he will sometimes\u00a0win and much more often\u00a0lose, but he will certainly bring change<\/i>.\u00a0At least he will make the establishment\u00a0rethink many axioms of the past.\u00a0Revisiting and reassessing the concepts is always a good exercise.\u00a0Stagnation kills.<\/p>\n
Negatives:<\/b><\/p>\n
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Gary Johnson has not\u00a0become the 45th President of the United States.\u00a0Libertarian ideas remain\u00a0marginal (3.3%) in the masses, people are still afraid of assuming\u00a0responsibility, afraid of taking control of their own lives, their money,\u00a0their future. People still want to be guided by the government and told what to do.<\/p>\n
Here is what we’ve got so far with this Presidential election:<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[9],"class_list":{"0":"post-43","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politica","7":"tag-english","8":"h-entry","9":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kobzar.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kobzar.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kobzar.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kobzar.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kobzar.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kobzar.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kobzar.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kobzar.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kobzar.be\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} The campaign was\u00a0totally, scandalously unfair. A strong bias against Trump was outrageous: mass media,\u00a0“conventional” politicians, even debate moderators, even his own party \u2014 they\u00a0all were openly playing in Clinton’s favour. All of us, as\u00a0individuals<\/em>, can openly\u00a0demonstrate\u00a0our convictions. But if we act as institutions<\/em>\u00a0we\u00a0can’t.\u00a0Such impartiality of the institutions may be normal for an Oriental tyranny, but it is inexcusable for the\u00a0leading country of the Free World.<\/p>\n Gary Johnson was not\u00a0allowed to debate. It’s a shame. They should have let Gary speak. It’s time to bring\u00a0some colours to the obsolete\u00a0two-party system.<\/p>\n Free trade may now be\u00a0limited. Globalisation may slow down. Trump’s outdated concepts of protectionism and isolationism may seriously jeopardise the progress.<\/p>\n European security may be at risk, as Trump wants to change the system that\u00a0has been guaranteeing security of the Free World for the past 60 years. Think twice Mr Trump. Don’t tread on NATO, this shield of our civilisation\u00a0that held back Stalin, cooled down Khrushchev<\/a>, stopped Karad\u017ei\u0107 and\u00a0Milo\u0161evi\u0107.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"