Americans concerned by corporate influence: Analyst
American people are now less satisfied with the state of affairs in the United States than they were in the days before the November 8 presidential election, a new Gallup poll shows. The rating has dropped 10 percent from 37 percent after the victory of Donald Trump. Those polled singled out economic hardships and the election results as the most important challenges facing the nation.
Gordon Duff, senior editor of the Veterans Today, told Press TV that American people did not want either Trump or his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton to be the next president of the United States, rather, they wanted a progressive candidate who would have preferred the values of the people over the profits of American corporations.
“Half of the people in this country, as we look at it right now, would have preferred Bernie Sanders over Hillary” Clinton, Duff said, noting that “they (people) wanted a liberal progressive candidate that was going to put a government together that would put the values of the people over corporations.”
Only around 19 percent of Americans elected Trump and he didn’t win the majority of the votes, he said, adding that there was a disaffected majority within the Democrats.
Even in the Republican camp, there are supporters who are dissatisfied with the president-elect's options for his cabinet, the analyst said.
People in the United States are more skeptical of Trump's ability to improve race relations especially the ill-treatment of African Americans and other minorities, perhaps owning to some of his divisive comments during the presidential campaign, Gallup wrote.
“The differences are that severe,” he warned, arguing that people’s comments on the streets or on social media “reflect this kind of severity, this lack of common sense and this lack of any cohesiveness. Nobody is going to be happy in this country even if it is doing well."
Referring to other factors which make Americans discontented with the current situation in the US, he noted, military expenditure “takes money out of economy and it costs jobs.”
He went on to say, “We (ordinary Americans) don’t think about military spending at all. In Washington, that’s all they think about. That’s what pays the bribes. That’s what fills the coffers of congressmen.”
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