With the world’s loudest nation going to the elections shortly there is a lot of furor on the social media and MSM, taking political sides and stances, closely following each and every debate/campaign while looking up to this much hyped political finale of the upcoming elections in the United States Of America.
Starting from the previous presidential election campaigning race between democrat nominees Hillary and Obama or the social media election phenomenon during the 2014 elections in Indian subcontinent that gripped the world across, so much that elections went on to become more interesting than football or cricket in the history of politics and we Indians have become adept political analysts ever since!
But as the political shrill gets louder by the day in America, I wonder, what really is the difference between Coke and Pepsi or to put it more explicitly what really is the difference between Mulayam or Laloo?
One, a Democratic Party, started in 1824 that adopted the donkey as its symbol to portray ä people’s rule and another, the Republicans who started in the 1854s politically making mammoth effects on the minds of people with their anti-slavery stance, and has the elephant as its symbol. Since times immemorial America is a two Parties nation and surprisingly there have been no Kejriwals or Sharad Pawars or even any regional Devegowdas or Jayalalithas as the two dominant parties have consecutively taken turns to reign America without letting a third one evolve.
While the Republicans believe there should be uniform tax policy for all and are all for abolishing income tax while concentrating only on sales tax and aim at generating jobs and is more business friendly in terms of regulating the economy as they encourage individual personal responsibility, on the other hand, the Democrats want lighter tax policies on the poor and middle class while levying higher tax rates on corporates and the rich and believe in Government intervention for all their tax policies that end up in tax more and spend more.
On this aspect the Republicans are seen as white racists out there to facilitate the super rich and eat away the poor even after they have invested on many anti-poverty programs spending millions of dollars.
More business class are attracted to Republicans while Democratic Party finds resonance with workers and the general middle class, but whether it is Democrats or Republicans and their tall election manifestos on tax reforms America has run into budget deficit from the last many decades, blame it on their overwhelming zeal for supreme intervention on humanitarian causes in other nations or warmongering passions, which forces one to think as to whose development is it in a developed nation?
The Republicans are regarded as conservative by the larger propaganda for their anti-abortion and anti-gay marriages stance and pro-gun rights, but not many know that the Progressive liberals in the early 20th century had devised a human engineering mechanism called Eugenics legislation for racial purity by regulating who can procreate so as to contain and create only a better gene pool of humans with most desired traits.
Initially they advocated positive eugenics where rich, strong white people with best traits of intelligence and morality came together but later it was negative eugenics where a state sponsored compulsory sterilization program was passed to sterilize the disabled, socially disadvantaged, the poor, blacks, Native Americans and minority religions that did not follow the Church. And this went on full-fledged from 1929-1974.
Initially some 350000 were sterilized and this trend later even led to Euthanasia programs during World War II where the powerful would decide if an individual was worthy enough or socially relevant enough to exist and enjoy the state’s privileges and policies.
But today they choose the fattest turkey and do their Thanksgiving jobs to cover up the holocaust of racial bigotry that is buried deep beneath cheering campaigns and chest beating egalitarianism.
Today the cold racial bigotry might have just been delegated off as a cool libertarian gesture favoring gay rights legislations and it is made out that only pronounced fools or rigid rascals shall question this law favoring unnatural methods of procreation and relationship and only a unsocial retard will suspect that this might perhaps be a clandestine effort to their centuries old ideological effect of racial purity which may be gently wrapped under the mantles of Progressivism to suit a modern narrative.
The Republican Party that came to limelight with its anti-slavery stance had on ground always proved its white supremacist, Catholic and racist ideologies out in the open, but ironically the Democrats who cached on their liberal image have always been scheming and skewering mildly many racist bigotries and the practice of words like African-American, South- Asian American, Mormon, dark skinned co-islanders, Cuban Catholics in the current day American politics further reiterates the fact that America is more racist than they claim.
In the past Republicans like Nikki Haley and Bobby Jindal too have been subject to such subtle crass racism by liberal Democrat members and the media themselves but before you thought that they were subject to racism make no mistake and be aware that they bagged the Republican seats with their Catholic credentials with a whiter heart than the white men.
Not that Hillary is any less white or less Catholic, in fact Hillary Clinton, the star face of Democrats has a lot of support from the evangelic societies who have openly pledged their support to her, which indicates the amount of missionary activity endorsements under her belt.
No I am not confusing conversions with racism but only making a point that whether it is Hillary or Trump, the American president is just a rubber stamp and fact that an America that lectures us on tolerance is actually so much of a liberal state that it can never ever be separated from the dictats of the Church no matter which Tom, Dick or Harry rules!
The only difference is that with Trump the bigotry is going to be more blatant while Democrats might subtly decorate it with subjects of humanity and religious freedom and still poke into other nations’ affairs for their global supremacist objective.
The Democrats are portrayed as liberal as they favor gay rights and are not against abortions and paint a rosy picture about freedom of choice while Republicans tall talk their approach as pro-life but the reality is both these parties care no more for their people and with every mandate the personal liberty of the people is only shrinking with more and more regulations on health, insurance and even food and marriage.
But this state interference is cleverly packaged as citizen’s welfare. While the Republicans talk about equal taxation policy and drastically reduce taxes of the rich, the Democrats dwarf aspirations of self-sustenance by thrusting a social security net where the poor are stunted and shunted from dreaming big, where ambition is met with aid and freedom is with fed with fear. They talk of containing terror by the day and go for war by the night, this country is continuously going for war, and whether it is the Republicans or Democrats, America has under George Bush(Republican) and Obama(Democrat) inflicted war on countries like Afganistan, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Syria.
So whether it is the Democrats or the Republicans their foreign policies have been the same, their power supremacy is above all policies and in alignment to America’s hegemonic interests and ‘America’s interests’ need not necessarily always mean its people’s interests.
The Democrats mildly make you believe that they believe in strong gun control laws but innocent victims are shot down time and again and the police will gun down anyone who looks suspiciously black or brown or allegedly holding a gun, so much for strong gun laws. The Republicans on the other hand boldly argue for a pro-gun law claiming safety of their citizens but how safe is anybody knowing that the other person walking down the street has a gun in his pocket and might blow you up with his own preconceived notion of right or wrong!
The Gun, Gay rights and Girl empowerment are like the Roti Kapda Makaan agenda that will go on until Americans realize that they are being duped by the same coin with different faces from the last so many decades and that a #Pussygate is no different from #Troopergate and if character shaming means anything in a country where adultery has fast become a casual way of life if not a cool statement?
While an Indian’s cast of vote is made out to be synonymous with vote for caste as per many western journalists, will the people in the west ever see through the white plot in their vote? Will they ever come out on the streets and do a Syria or a Libya?
The problems of advanced and developed nations are more complex and farther away from human values and a developing nation like India should stop and ponder if this where they want to reach as they visualize their Vishwa Guru dreams.
Coming to the immigration policy, Trump’s H1B policy is seemingly a threat to Indians but the Obama administration is no less immigrant friendly as the USCIS has recently hiked the Visa fee policy that was enacted as law recently, as per Consolidated Appropriations Act 2016 where H1B and L1A and L1B visa seekers are required to pay $4000 in addition to the base processing fee which in itself is a subtle measure to keep immigrants at bay.
Also Trump is talking of ridding illegal immigrants and not about the skilled labor from India who add value to the American economy plus the US’s growing need to keep China in check, makes India a much sought ally to the US either way and vice versa, we need them too as they are a big ally for our own scaling up in the current day geopolitical scenario.
If it is the Democrats that call the shots, then India is better off dealing with a known devil as we are as seasoned as their scheming politics and if it is the Republicans then India should make good of Trump’s seeming hatred towards Pakistan and his political greenness by taking this opportune moment to establish its regional power independently while checkmating China and continuing good relationships with Russia and the US.