Waldo: The people's voice

In The Waldo Moment, the people of the district where Liam Monroe and Gwendolyn Harris are running for office have become frustrated with the political atmosphere. Since the owner of Waldo, Jack Napier, saw the opportunity to cause an issue for Liam after his interview, he decided the character would run for office. Although Waldo does not win the election, he gained the second most amount of votes for the region. Since people voted largely for a cartoon character with no political platform, it showed how desperate they were for something different. The region had been primarily conservative, and people were prepared for something else. Waldo's rant about career politicians helped people realize that they had a voice against the government system. Waldo may not have had anything planned for the elective region, but his created disdain for the status quo was pertinent to nations outside of the United Kingdom. At the end of *The Waldo Moment*, ads of Waldo speaking other languages to appeal to different nations. The idea of making the government more open to the commoner and less of an oligarchy were reflected in the United States election. Whereas Hilary Clinton possessed thirty years of experience in politics, Donald Trump represented a fresh breath of air from the exchanging of Bushes, Clintons, and career politicians from being in power. While I personally do not agree with most of his views, I can see why people were willing to vote for him. They did not view his speeches about building a wall as being serious, but as a call to change. Most of his support was not gained from his views on immigration and minorities, but instead from people's urge to see something different. He promised people a change to how our government was ran; instead of possessing political knowledge, he promised a fresh start from a business perspective to the disenfranchised middle class who believed the government did not work for them. His outsider view on the way that government should work, like Waldo's constructed view that politicians ignored people, made people wish to vote for him. While some people did take his words on xenophobia and being "the silent majority" seriously, they only represented a fraction of his voters. A call for a shift in the way power is held in the country gave Trump the support to win the Electoral College vote, and people were happy to overlook possible marginalization of minorities in search for this change.