I as an Indian out of a passion for geopolitics have been closely monitoring on what’s been happening in the US during the last six months when the US election season went into overdrive. All engines were being fired through any medium that allowed political combustion to take place by all parties involved to woo the American voter. Social media utilization was at an all time high at a nerve racking pace.
And then when the expected results were announced and the whole world heaved a sigh of relief, the nightmare unfolded in terms of overtly and unashamedly displaying the rot that had seeped into the GOP. I am confident that American democracy will prevail once this bizarre and surreal horror show comes to a close. Scars left behind will take time to heal. Americans will need to introspect to ensure that future generations are never made to experience such a rough political ride ever again.
Thanks to the print, electronic media and the mother lode of all aggregators, the Internet, opined articles, printed news, video and sound bites during these six months that have gone by were soaked up by me like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. The same had to be collated to allow me thereafter to try and stitch together a political mosaic based on my skills. My grey cell data digestion index had to be put on a back burner. No algorithmic code was good enough for it. It simply couldn’t commensurately mine and process the raw data that was coming in to allow me to meaningfully extrapolate.
It has been a Herculean task for an outsider like me standing on the periphery to try and make sense about the madness that shockingly has simply engulfed most elected representatives of the GOP. This has single handedly, craftily been masterminded by a lunatic who coincidentally happens to be POTUS. He has taken notoriety to a scale which has no historical parallel. The four lobes in his brain have been working at cross purposes ever since he took up the Presidency. Here was a specimen who actually believed that his stay in the White House was akin to that of an owner and not a licensee.
The mystique that he was able to conjure and use to charm and mesmerize his flock and GOP colleagues during his four years of spin doctoring would put a French perfume to shame. It is so painful to see the GOP founded in 1884, a party which gave the world statesman like Abe Lincoln and FDR had allowed itself to get infested with a human termite that had started chipping away at its very foundation. The party’s existence was threatened, its survival being questioned by die hard loyalists.
A two party system can flourish in a political ecosystem when members have respect for each other. No room for adversarial expeditions are embarked upon to undermine each other. When colleagues come to the arena with bloated political bladders and get involved in a pissing match emptying out their political vile, the only fall out for Americans will be to smell a stench from the muck left behind.
The US is no saint by any stretch of imagination, within the present universe of regimes and governments ruling planet earth. One has to subscribe amongst the limited pool of choices available.
Countries, whose citizens value the rule of law and preservation of human rights, historically looked upon the US for global leadership, guidance, assistance and a cover of benevolence. But with what is being played out now under the tarpaulin of US elections all because of a single human being has every one shocked and worried. If this can happen in the US what hopes do other countries have which are ruled by arrogant tin pot dictators chronically hallucinating from “They are God’s gift to their respective citizens” syndrome.
A silver lining in this US election phase is that judiciaries at both the State and Federal levels have kept themselves ramrod straight, interpreted laws and passed judgements based on substance, merit. My optimism also stems from the state officials and people involved election duty in Republican ruled states have carried out their duties sincerely without fear to their life and limb.
His cabal of sycophants sold their souls during the four years of Donald Trump's reign to cover up for him. Now its payback time to get presidential pardons but such vermin will carry their sins to their graves and be buried along with them. These sleazebags know that a pardon in any way does not erase their complicit in crimes and misdemeanours.
The rule of law is more important than subjugating oneself for a few pieces of silver to an anatomical enigma called Donald Trump who embodies nothingness and has been pandering a bad dream that is soon going into oblivion.
