I had
decided to delay this month’s editorial for The
Sunday Indian till
11/9 (writing 9th of November the American way) because i wanted to write the
edit on the next American President. But as the jokes go, Modi decided to
upstage the American excitement, at least in India!
But before coming to Modi, let me finish writing on why Trump as
POTUS makes me reasonably happy! I followed the elections in the US with
maximum enthusiasm till Bernie lost. Have written earlier too that I wanted
Bernie to get the Democratic nomination like no one else ever, including Obama!
And had it been Bernie, today most likely, Democrats would have been the guys
celebrating!
Post Hillary getting the nomination, all excitement died. Yes, I
would have loved to see a woman finally breaking the Presidential glass
ceiling! But did that mean supporting Hillary? When Susan Sarandon was asked
why wouldn’t she support Hillary when the man she supported – Bernie – wanted
support for Hillary, she said, “I don’t vote with my vagina”. That’s the crux,
you vote with your brains.
And I am glad Americans used their below average brains to vote.
So the result? First the sad one… Bernie lost and Americans proved that as a
nation, they were still intellectually dwarfed. Next, the better one. Trump
won. And Americans proved that though they are less educated as a nation on the
whole, they are not complete idiots yet. So why am I happy at Trump’s victory?
Well, I quite disliked that (as Trump loves to call her) crooked
woman for certain. Trump has been a case study of business success in B-schools
all over the world and is quite transparent. You get what you see. An arrogant,
boisterous billionaire with scant respect for anyone… and absolutely practical.
To me, Trump represents in every which way the majority of Americans. From the
Great American Dream of unlimited wealth in their eyes to their multiple
partners, marriages and divorces to being absolutely coarse and racist
illiterates… He is America! Rarely has anyone ever represented today’s America
more, at least in the Oval office.
As I told a friend of mine as she stood in a queue to vote, I
wouldn’t vote at all if I were in her place; but if I had to, I would vote for
Hillary and hope that she loses… That way, I wouldn’t live for four years with
the guilt of electing an unscrupulous lady of totally suspect ethics and values
nor live with the guilt of voting for an openly racist misogynist.
Hillary has forever used her and her husband’s name and their
joint official posts to join hands with the worst corporations and fascist
rulers around the world for personal gains directly or indirectly through the
Clinton Foundation. Also, I believe it’s better for women to have Melania out
there inside the White House than Hillary… I almost mean for women as well…
It’s better to have a woman who posed nude for magazines, and did so proudly…
than to have a woman who for all claims of feminism couldn’t take a stance on
her husband when he cheated – even if it was to tell the world boldly that so
what if he got a blow job, I am absolutely happy to be with this intelligent
man with so many other exceptional qualities. She didn’t. Neither did she
divorce him. For feminists like Susan Sarandon, no wonder then Hillary was a
strict no........
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