Election Mandate Quotes
Trump had an extraordinary sensutuvuty to anything that might seem to diminish his popularity, capability or effectiveness--especially if it nimplied that sny one lese might have ben better at something. While his inaguration was a major event in America with his supporters celebrating his elkection, the crowd was smaller than those of the teo previous inaguartions but nine-the-less very imopressive in size and enthusiasm. Then the nes media reported this fact, Trump publicly accused them oif faking the news. He even took a portion if his speech to ther CIA staff to rail about the size of the crowd. When several news organziations released arial photos of of his and earlier inaguration that clearly showed the contrast, we went on the next day. Many were puzzled as to why he would spend a significant proportion of his publioc and press exposure to this trivisl issue in his firdt days as president. Esperienced political hands gave him very pointed advice like this from the former White House Chief if Staff snd thern mayor of Chicago.
In 1964, after the newly elected Labour Government announced its new policies and budget, the financiers and speculators who control the international money markets thought the new budget and policies ill-advised. The made their concerns known to the Governor of the Bank of England who in turn recommended to the new Prime Minister that he cut the budget drastically and adopt a new more conservative set of economic policies. The Prime Minister was shocked that a non-elected small group of men—mostly not even British, were trying to reverse a set of policies that the voters in a democracy had elected. However, he was more shocked when he discovered that if he didn’t “obey” the financiers could act in concert, attack the British Pound, dramatically increase the interest rates the government would have to pay to borrow short term money, and ruin the British economy. Wilson had to comply. In America we refer to this situation more delicately by saying that “the markets will not react well to one proposal or another”. Our politicians intimidate themselves. The only way a democracy can really have control over its own policies and budgets, is to not be in debt to anyone.
A major problem of new and emerging democracies is that many people believe that majority rule per se is democracy. In Egypt for example, Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood won the election. They then assumed that they had the right to do anything including exempting the government from judicial review or deciding the role of women in society or denying freedom of religion to non-Muslim citizens. Democracy is not a serial autocracy with each new autocrat being selected by a free and fair election.
The letter was publicly posted on the religious school’s website.
