Donald Trump As President-Elect Is Not So Shocking
By Lonce LaMon - November 9, 2016
Business Insurance wrote late this morning that Donald Trump’s ascendancy to the American Presidency could ease regulatory pressure on the insurance sector. It could mean movement on key legislative and regulatory priorities favored by many in the property/casualty insurance sector.
Business Insurance writer Gloria Gonzalez wrote, “The president-elect has pledged to crack down on ‘wasteful and unnecessary regulation’ and to issue a temporary moratorium on new agency regulations if they are not compelled by Congress or don’t address public safety.”
Another immediate response to Trump’s triumph is that he is expected now to lift the government’s restraints on the private economy, and that will include the insurance sector.
The polls and --especially journalists and broadcasters-- were shocked by Trump’s victory. It was repeatedly called an “upset” by journalists as the New York Times called it a “Stunning Repudiation of the Establishment”. The LA Times called it a “Shocking Win”.
But what’s so stunning? Why is everyone so shocked? As a journalist, regularly people approach me assuming that I am a “liberal”. One man recently apologized before beginning to say something he wished to express, stating he knew he would offend me with what he was about to say because I am a liberal.
“Where did you get that idea?” I replied to him. He then responded, “You’re a writer, a journalist, aren’t you?”
It’s truly surprising to this writer to know that every media professional—every journalist or broadcaster—is in advance prejudiced as a “liberal”. Whatever that means…. Where did that start? What’s behind it?
I don’t know. But I’ll endeavor on a campaign starting immediately to find out. I am no liberal, in the general, modern connotation of that word. But I certainly am a journalist.
Dan Prescher, an editor and journalist for International Living Magazine, wrote something extraordinary that was published this morning. It grabbed me firmly. Dan and his journalist wife, Susan Haskins, live presently as ex-patriot Americans in Cotacachi, Ecuador.
“Divisiveness has become a way of life in the U.S.,” Dan writes…
“The ‘news’ media thrives on it. No major media outlet actually covers news anymore...they cultivate target audiences by pandering to and confirming the biases of their viewers in order to drive market share, ratings, and ad revenue.
“Social media has followed suit. It is now possible to live in a social media "information bubble." Your social media detects your interests and feeds you back more of the same. Which means that, no matter what your particular political or social point of view, social media will, by design, heap more of it on you. Your existing biases will not only be confirmed, but reinforced.
“The result, as far as I can tell, is a huge collection of formal and informal online communities that exist solely to let believers congratulate themselves on how smart they are and how stupid everyone else is.
“Which is just the way social media platforms and news organizations like it. Because, if we were all calm and tolerant and reasonable, nobody would spend hours each day getting themselves riled up in front of the TV or at the keyboard.
“And that wouldn't be good for business.”
So, Donald Trump, the politically incorrect, rude, unrefined, trash talking, devil-may-care iconoclast businessman, with loose lips that many fear could sink every ship, has now won the Presidency of the United States of America.
Is this writer afraid of what he may do? No. Not at all. If one were to do one’s homework, one would see that he’s no more abrasive or offensive than many U.S. Presidents who have come before him. The list is long.
lonce@adjustercom.com; Lonce LaMon, journalist; copyright and Lonce LaMon, all rights reserved
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