An "Undeveloping" World

Find me a better term, but you would possibly appreciate what I am getting at. At this time the last word on the US Presidential election is far from out, but some facts are indisputably established. The world is changing and countries that have controlled the global power balance for much more than a century are on the retreat in the global dynamics that are playing out. The strong show of protest against the old order points to a fear, anger and anxiety of the newly dispossessed. That protest may not yield anything better,and if anything it is a surrender to the new world order, an angry surrender.

US is still a rich and powerful nation, but the mass of people who feel poorer and dispossessed than before is just becoming larger. This is possibly an irreversible trend because it has to do with more fundamental demographic and technological evolution. You can't fight those in any meaningful manner. Hence when they impose the burden of dispossession, anger is natural. The fact that you possibly cannot do much about it adds to the frustration. Eventually it leads to an erosion of decency, a state where you do not care about any civil order, of what others think, of anything else except your protest.

The vote is that democratic protest even if it leads to the worse. Clinton may just as well lose. In such a prevailing mood of despondency that would not go away soon, the country would be practically ungovernable, especially with a hostile Congress and Senate. This result would be a winners curse. It would not make America great again, it would not drain the swamp. It would just be what I say at the outset, a pure protest that does not care either for consequences or for decency and decorum. It has to be respected for what it is, but the subtext has now become prominent - The world order is radically changing and the American vote endorses that through the voices of an undeveloping nation and its citizens.