Here is a very interesting Indian view of Donald Trump's victory.
Under a Trump presidency, expect a profound rearrangement of the world order. This is Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations playing out. First it was Brexit, for essentially the same reasons. Now it’s Trump. The West is girding its loins to face off the Wahhabi threat that has arisen. It has no patience for a hoity-toity liberal elite that only gets in the way and compromises the West’s economic and social vitality. Americans are ready to put America first. That’s why Trump won.Facebook fascinatingly shows you how the liberal elite think. An example is this comment left just now on someone's wall:
We had the demented moral relativism of the left making excuses for 9/11 and other such acts of terror, now we're seeing the demented moral relativism of the right defending Trump. This will show a lot of hypocrites up at least, there will be plenty who make excuses for one and not the other. We should come up with a name for them...Find an equivalence between defending Mr. Trump and murdering 3,000 people and then complain about demented moral relativism. Isn't it wonderful? And people like that think Trump supporters are stupid.
And don't understand why the Donald was elected.
Someone else on Facebook yesterday opined:
This is the worst day in the entire history of the nation; worse than Pearl Harbor, worse than 9-11, worse than JFK's assassination.How painful the next four years are going to be for these people, whether President Trump succeeds, as we must hope, or fails.
Of course, for many of these folks, history only began ~1968 or 1970.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing the Indian story.
Who are the 'liberal elite' and why are they such a bugbear to delusional headboard chompers?
ReplyDeleteA lot of the accusations from the article, towards Democrats, could be also addressed to Republicans. I ask myself, really? Republicans are not…
ReplyDeleteI did not vote of course, but I followed closely the campaign day by day, on Twitter. Excting and interesting.
Tomorrow we could be the targets for any reason, because we are white or black, of left or right, etc. Will we live in ghettos organised by religion, gender, etc.? Someone who does not have any sound plan but masters a whole vocabulary of prejudicial words to qualify people on the base of race/ethnicity, religion, culture, status of health, disabilities, is a person which does not respect diversity. If a majority likes to draw borders based on diversity and differenttiaon of any sort, is anyone thinking that it will be good for humankind?
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Tomorrow we could be the targets for any reason, because we are white or black, of left or right, etc. Will we live in ghettos organised by religion, gender, etc.? Someone who does not have any sound plan but masters a whole vocabulary of prejudicial words to qualify people on the base of race/ethnicity, religion, culture, status of health, disabilities, is a person which does not respect diversity. If a majority likes to draw borders based on diversity and differentiation of any sort, is anyone thinking that it will be good for humankind?
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