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12-11-2016 8:44 AM
The mood is the same on both sides of the pond, distrust of the elite and increasing frustration with a financial system that isn't working for the majority.
The result is the same, an election result that takes the elite by surprise and amounts to a rejection of them and their agendas.
The questions asked of the electorates were different but the answer the same in both countries. The majority don't trust the professional politicians who ignore them and expect them to carry on getting poorer without protest. Trump won because no matter how horrible he is one thing he definitely is not is a career politician, not a Washington insider and he constantly repeated his belief that the "little guy" should be listened to. The same in the UK. Some of UKIPs policies are not so good but UKIP are not Westminster insiders and Farage led what he called the "peoples army"
These votes were not so much "for" anything, they were a vote against the establishment and the status quo.
I never said I want to remove what you call the "elite money system". I don't think anyone in either election called for that. Capitalism is without a doubt the best way we have found to create wealth and distribute it widely. The issue is that since the 80s capitalism has been going backwards, wealth has been moving only upwards. The increasing prosperity of the majority during the 40s - 70s has to be returned to by reforming the checks and balances that enabled it to happen.
These election results IMO are giving notice to the elite that if they can't or won't do that they will be replaced.