November 3, 2016, Book Launch - Los Angeles, CA
Chapter from "Fiscal Conservative's Pocket Constitution 2.0 aka Latino Republicans"
Predictions of the November 2016 Presidential Elections and Beyond
If I was a
betting man, never in my wildest imagination would I have predicted Donald
Trump to be the Republican Party’s Presidential nominee for the November 2016
elections.
The
Democratic Party too was going through its form of “extremism”. Once again you
had the presumed Presidential Candidate and political machine, Secretary Hillary
Clinton, who just eight years ago lost to a no brand name candidate from
Chicago, President Obama. On the leftist spectrum, she is very moderate, some
even feel more Republican than Democrat in her policies and beliefs.
Now to the
extreme left you had the very popular Congressman from Vermont, Bernie Sanders,
who in my humble opinion would give everything to the American people for FREE
or more on the socialist ideal. But to be honest, as a former Democrat, I felt
Bernie was more refreshing and “Obama” like in his philosophies (at least in
the aspect of “hope”) than his counterpart of Secretary Clinton.
The stage is
set and now we have both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton representing their
respected parties.
I will
preface my next statements by saying I am a first-generation American and the
product of immigrant parents who came from Colombia to the United States over
forty years ago. As many immigrant stories, they too came with no money, no
network, and not speaking a lick of English. But they had the burning desire of
the “American Dream” and God bless them….they achieved it! My parents, like
many of yours, have a strong work ethic, have old-school beliefs, saved money
and were entrepreneurs in their thinking and in their actions. They worked hard
all their lives and have a retirement to show for it.
But I
believe their crowning jewel above all is the success of their two American
sons. Who in just one generation, attended & taught in the best
universities, worked for Fortune 500 companies and in the White House, became entrepreneurs
themselves and who at the end are productive American citizens.
So back to
the Republican party’s nominee, El Donald Trump. As you remember over eight
years ago, he just like Hillary, ran for his prospective party and lost. But
back then he was a kinder and gentler Trump, who everyone remembers as the
person who hobnobbed and networked with anyone who he thought would either make
him richer or bring him higher TV ratings, including his friends the Clintons.
Welcome back
to 2016 Presidential campaign. The “new” Trump starts off his bid for the
Presidential Republican nomination by calling “Mexicans” everything under the
big, blue sky and the scapegoats for all of America’s problems. They are
rapist, murderers, illegals….who came to this country to basically gut it and
return back to their Mother country fat and rich. He now wants to build a
continuous wall on the Mexican/American
border to keep America safe. But I wonder what happed to building a wall
between the Canadian/American border as well….oh yeah….those Canadian have
white skin and look European.
The blame
game has been played since the inception of this already great country. It all
started when the Puritans were being persecuted in Europe for their religion.
They decided to escape this persecution and they landed on Plymouth Rock. The
American Indians for the most part welcomed them and helped them with the
necessary survival skills to make it through the harsh seasonal weather….and
America was born…more or less.
In return,
these Europeans gave them diseases and in the long-run committed genocide through
the slaughter of the native Indians of this country.
If that
wasn’t enough, the agricultural revolution was in full swing, and it was very
labor intensive. Due to the lack of numbers of strong European men (and the
social class mentality)….slavery thus began. African men were being shipped to
America in high numbers to meet the demand of tobacco, cotton and other
agricultural products.
As most
business-minded folks know, the highest expense any business has is human
resources (aka labor), and the conservative numbers is somewhere around 50% of
a business’ expenses. So how did the United States become so rich and powerful
so quickly….the cost of labor = “zero”….so profits soared through the roof.
Almost
forgot….so as American was born, the fore-fathers were very intelligent and
forward thinkers of their time. They designed and created a government that was
like no other and still is like no other. The core foundation of America are
two documents: the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights (luck you, this
book contains copies of both).
Our founders
believed passionately of the protection of its citizens from its government.
But also a controlled government was
necessary to protect the people and keep balance and harmony.
So now we
have a Presidential Republican nominee (or more like a snake-oil salesman) that
literally spews fear, hatred and racism all under the cause of the “Let’s Make
America Great Again” slogan. Blaming everyone but himself for the problems of
America. What’s wrong with this picture….many things!
America is
currently facing a fork on the road. On one hand you have, for example,
coalminers in Virginia who have seen their great paying, union jobs decline (if
not almost disappear) and are not be prepared for globalization. They are
undereducated, underemployed and really pissed off. On the other hand you have
immigrants (I include African-Americans in this mix….they too are immigrants)
who have dealt with racism, glass-ceilings, police/government brutality,
scape-goating…they too are pissed off.
So what now?
This is the million-dollar question.
My Presidential election prediction
should not be too shocking. If we have a high voter turnout, Hillary wins in a landslide.
If we have poor turnout, Trump wins a close race.
But the
question all Americans should be asking, what happens after Tuesday, November 8th?
Are our problems fixable? My short answer is yes but with a hell of a lot of
work.
America
needs to go back to the basics. We need to begin by getting involved on the
local level…that means with our families first. We need to be better parents
and better children. I truly believe this is the start of the renaissance of
America. Without love and structure of a strong family (traditional and
non-traditional) as the foundation, American will continue in this downward
spiral of fear, anger and hatred.
How American
is that?
Please be a responsible Americans and
vote on election day…your country is depending on it.
