Regardless of what happens, I consider this experience a success. We all have done our best on both sides vetting the candidates and fighting for what we believe is best for America. We have properly discounted expectations of how the next president will do allowing for a strong possibility of exceeding expectations.

We have all held the candidates feet to the proverbial fire on the issues that matter. We have thrown our spear at the establishment like King Leonidas did at the “god-king” Xerxes. Our voice has been heard.

Let me pause and say thank you Fly, and readers of IBankCoin. I felt I got the messages out that I needed to, and reached enough people for the good and important ideas to potentially spread.

Our battle for liberty is not done, however we made our case and cast our votes. (You did vote, right? If not, do it now!)
We may see Trump at the next state of the union address, or we may see him on TrumpTV. We may see Hillary impeached and thrown in jail, or lead the nation as the commander in chief. We may see the illusions of our vision of the future wash away and the uncertain chaotic nature of events play out differently than we expect. We will find out soon enough.

But through the challenges, we must endure. Through the hopes, we shall dream.

I want to restate our forefathers declaration of independence in modern, less eloquent language: It is obvious and apparent that all are born with equal unalienable rights. We institute government with the purpose of protecting these rights, and that it is the right of the people to alter, abolish, or impeach any form of government should it become a threat to our liberties. This is the warning shot to the establishment, as our proverbial voices over the loudspeaker booms “Regardless of outcome, institute term limits and protect our liberties, or we will find someone that will.”

The forefathers struck the proverbial dagger into the tyrannical establishment with the declaration of independence and ensuing war and were willing to wage war to defend our rights to vote for a candidate promising to drain the swamp and clean up the establishment peacefully.

They made the decision back then that liberty was worth risking their lives for so that their children may have a better tomorrow. I believe a lot changes, but one thing that never does is the passions and emotions of a populous. The willingness of mankind to wage war for liberties will not be silenced with a single election.

I fear that if we don’t have a peaceful, fair transition of power to someone willing to battle the corruption, our liberties–as Reagan once said–may only be a generation away from extinction. Oppress people enough and they will eventually be willing to risk their lives over hope of something better. However, I’m optimistic that if we don’t make the right choice, we will still have the ability to vote in anti-establishment candidates into 2018 and 2020 where we have a chance for real liberty–given mankind’s perseverance and resolve allows us to overcome, shine the beacon of liberty and survive until then. I encourage you to keep the revolution against the establishment a peaceful one, if possible.

It is my contention, that there are radical elements on the regressive left seeking to undermine our democracy–some of which are outlined here. We must destroy them ideologically through exposing their ideas. The enemy of the evil darkness of fascism and Marxism is an unveiling of the light of truth, exposing them for what they are.

In the title, I teased how this election can be the greatest thing that ever happened to you. I believe this will be true if you learn the lessons that were presented. I will get to summarizing this soon, but first what the majority of my audience likely wants to hear.

Trump is not his past, he is not his actions, he is not his promises. If he were, he wouldn’t have our vote (certainly not mine). Trump instead represents a medium through which we cast our voice about the directional aims of the country as well as the party. Hillary represents the status quo. She represents a different direction filled with selling of favors, using tax payer money, personal enrichment at the expense of suboptimal policy and putting lives at risk in the process and another step towards the regressive left of in my opinion failed policy, failed methodology, and failed ideology.

Presidents are our representatives, not our role models. If they were our role models, we certainly wouldn’t have had the scandal ridden Kennedy who while in office spoke out against secrecy, spoke out against oppressive government, spoke in favor of personal accountability (more so than any democrat since) and avoided a missile crisis and even inspired us to dream big and go to the moon.

In the modern era things about other great leaders character that are hidden from history would have prevented them from taking office I won’t name names, but I assure you alleged “high character” presidents have skeletons hidden. Presidents are not expected to be perfect in our collective march towards liberty. They are our surrogates to carry the bright light of liberty forward. The candidate represents our directional arrow pointing towards the things we want. In this case, Trump represents term limits, ending corruption, transforming the system and managing debt and monetary reform and demanding a higher standard of management and leadership of our debt and using term limits as a means to demand better leaders of this country that are more representative of the people and that have to live in the same class as those they govern.

Most importantly, good leaders know how to build off of previous experiences and make things better and improve their odds of success as they go. Certain policies will have challenges that could be seen as “failures”, but perseverance will ultimately determine it’s success. Good leaders also know when to cut their losses.

This ties into the teaser of a title. There are certain traits that the successful possess. Certain approaches to life that they take. That is what you must be mindful of, and that is what I will speak on.

If Trump is a “failure” for managing risk properly while having multiple bankruptcies in individual companies during his path to an expanding net worth and brand having been placed on over 500 entities, then his collection of failures are collectively a great success. He “failed forward” until he found success.

America is filled with a history of individual failures of party, government, and enterprise with many past failures and future failures masquerading around as success stories. Every business given enough time fails or consolidates, but the system itself, need not. For prior to every failure or exit (merger or buy out) of enterprise, people generate capital through working, products get developed, parts get ordered and shipped to others who use them and things like them. Other companies receive orders and use them to make products and generate profit, and customers receive products while the “failure” provides a blueprint of what went wrong, but also what went right along the way prior to failure.

Everyone who dares to dream and aims for the stars will have failures. Life isn’t about how hard you hit, but how willing you are to get up. Life starts everyday by leaving your last failure behind and getting up again to go out and try to fail brilliantly once again. Sleep is a failure to have energy and a recognition that this failure will make one stronger. working out is lifting weights until you can’t lift it anymore and fail to have strength and it makes you stronger. The government is a system whereby every president has a designed term of 4 years and 2 terms. Every party has had their share of many failures in the primary and failures in the national election only to see their candidate that does win go on to fail to enact all of the policy he wants, and eventually fail to continue being president after 4 or 8 years.

If you learn one thing from this election cycle that you can bring into your personal life, let it be that failure is the engine to get you directionally where you want to go. You will propel the failure behind you like a ship’s engine kicking out force behind it repeatedly.

Split testing thousands of headlines on ads as many online entrepreneurs do to ultimately decide on 1 is a “failure”. Thomas Edison “failed” tens of thousands of times only to eliminate all the ways that wouldn’t work successfully and get the results he wanted. Nikola Tesla was perhaps more brilliant and a better inventor, but he did things in his mind until done successfully, and didn’t seem to always grasp the nuances of business and raising capital because he didn’t understand the value of using failure to his advantage. He may have even been right about the ways in which Edison could have been more efficient, but his view compared to Edison contrasts one of many reasons why Edison was a greater success in terms of both financially and setting up an entity that outlived him and is still alive to this day in General Electric.

The republicans had over 17 candidates that failed all so they could nominate the one who succeeded. If Trump succeeds it’s great evidence of the power of failure. If Trump “fails” in this election, he will still have gained probably over 50 million supporters. He will likely launch Trump-TV where he will be the face of politics, economics, negotiating, etc. Many of his followers will go along and become customers. His failure will propel him in the direction of greater success and lead to an even greater failure as all his past failures have done… In addition to many successes. All the experience, brand, support, connections and resources he will carry with him whether Trump TV succeeds or fails, and when Trump ultimately dies, his children will take the knowledge and resources and brand and teachings that he bestowed upon them forward to fail-succeed as well.

I decided to jump at the opportunity to blog about the election because I wanted my ideas to spread to like minded individuals. It doesn’t matter that many of these ideas I’ve compiled from other people, or that many others will carry those ideas forward and get credit for them. I define success a little bit differently in this case since my goals here are different. If my ideas are heard by enough, and spread by enough people, when the political blog is detonated and it’s back to finance those ideas will still be in people’s mind. I have become a conduit for the information flow that alters the way people think, potentially forever if enough people spread it to enough spreaders of information and so on.

So take these ideas and share them. Build upon them if you’d like. Apply your own filter of how you see it and put it in your own words. There are principals, philosophies and approaches to life that are worth fighting for. For now, I’m hopeful that the balance of powers and additional scrutiny of the candidates will protect us from any devastating consequences, especially should Trump win as he has properties around the world he wants to protect by maintaining peace. But Hillary has such low approval that we all will be watching her, and all our representatives will be ready to impeach her as well at the first sign that she isn’t representing our interests. Regardless of how corrupt Washington is, the representatives still know their children and grandchildren will have to grow up in the world they and their corporate donors create, as long as the people are willing to hold them accountable.

Now more than ever, the magnifying glass is on our elected leaders to get the big pieces right and the people are ready to hold them accountable regardless of what happens. Speak up with your mind, your heart and your vote and let this election be a reaffirmation of our independence as we all aim to make America better and ourselves better.

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