>>Scary times ahead. Maybe not for voters that vote for these two, but certainly for the rest of the world.
Maybe a little different in the Antipodes. China signs trade agreements where the US will not and as for the TPPA: both US presidential candidates tell a local audience that they are opposed, but in real life the US won't cut itself off from Pacific trade.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1