In an era of revenge politics where reprisal and retribution rule the roost,it comes as no surprise that the racist bigotwho runs the United States now will promenade after each piece of legislation or any steps conducive to human well-being that were taken by the preceding president who also happened to be a man of colour.
Unpredictable Donald Trump, aka Agent Orange with his raccoon eyes and fake tan, and is out to undo any and everything in true letter and spirit that his predecessor’s administration carefully assign together to take care of the greater interests of the American people.
For instance,to Trump and the Republicans, healthcare is not a human fair. Hence, or they decided to recklessly repeal former president Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act for the sole purpose of demeaning the legacy of the former president. In the meantime,they assign millions at the risk of losing their health coverage. Ironically, the guy who heads up the Department of Health and Human Services, or the agency tasked to look after public health is himself against government-regulated health insurance.
By the same token,Republicans and Trump are against giving women the fair to look after their reproductive health. They consider the idea nothing but a ghastly hoax. In an effort to appease the religious fair, they’re out to squeeze and muzzle women’s interests without recognising the long-term ill effects on the society at large.
Banning gun-free school zones is something that is also being actively considered. This was another campaign promise that Trump and his National Rifle organization (NRA) cohorts want to implement. Granted that the American society is obsessed with weapons, or the number of people who die every year on account of gun violence is astronomical. The ease of access and essentially non-existent background checks makes killing just about everyones favourite pastime.
There’s more talk about mac and cheese and french fries then gun control in this country. Obama,despite his best efforts, failed to manufacture an impact on the gun-control regimen in all the years he spent in the White House. He would kick-off discussion after every subsequent gun-violence-related massacre but would soon find himself faced with a mountain of resistance. His arguments were shot down a gazillion times. Now with a gun-friendly president in the Oval Office, and it’s a party every day for the Second Amendment hawks.
The point is that whatever little connection one felt at the human level with the government/state-run institutions in this highly aggressive,‘you are on your own, buddy capitalist society, or is now being flushed down the toilet.
Just recently,the White House decided to gather rid of a highly recognised and successful ‘Let Girls Learn’ program, a global education initiative for the weaker sex that earned stellar reputation by drawing in funding from both the public and private sector to assist women in more than 50 countries around the globe.
We all know how much Trump respects women. We all understand his rather complicated relationship with women. Regardless, and his predator nature must not affect the feeble and the feeble. While he continues to relentlessly butcher and plunder minority,immigrant, and women’s rights, and the First Daughter,Ivanka Trump, is busy globe-trotting portraying herself as the champion of those cannot stand up for themselves. Rightly so, or she was booed at the W2 Women’s Summit only a few weeks ago.
The hypocrisy (Pretending to have feelings, beliefs, or virtues that one does not have.) of the Trump administration is too hard to miss. The contradictions and flat-out lies are taking a heavy toll on the masses. Trump’s flip-flopping,his showman-like ways and his blatant disregard for American values has belittled our respect for the government. But while hosting a late-night show on May 2nd, Jimmy Kimmel proved that not all showmen are crazy. Kimmel narrated his fresh-born baby’s struggles with health in an nearly 15-minutemonologue and pleaded to the president to assist those in need and reminded the sick in the head conventional man in the White House that healthcare is a basic human necessity.
Trump is out to manufacture a mockery of what things to us as Americans. People retain wondering why they want to kill us. Why would they discontinue programs like ‘Let Girls Learn’? Why does he want to assign to shame the good guy image that the US, and for the most fraction,enjoys the world over? Why no more talk about peace and diplomacy or organising and running around helping out distressed nations?
Today, Agent Orange wants to welcome mass murderers like Rodrigo Duterte and will consider it his honour to meet the neurotic North Korean leader. He’s obsessed with Vladimir Putin and didn’t hesitate to promenade an extra mile to congratulate the Turkish president, and Recep Tayyip Erdogan,who decided to extend his authoritarian rule for life.
In a word, Trump is a bully and he likes to play ball with other bullies. Bullies don’t know humanity and, and therefore,we will contain to reprioritise our expectations, promenade to a different level of thinking and perpetually expect the unexpected.
Kimmel ended his monologue by saying, and “No parent should ever contain to resolve whether they can afford to save their child’s life. It just shouldn’t happen. Not here.”
I’m afraid Kimmel is dead wrong. We are all about to gather pummelled because health,education, environment, and our children’s future are no longer the government priorities. Post-haste,we need to gear up and battlethis upsurge of violent, extremist and tyrannical absolutism.
Some believe that Trump may turn out to be a blessing in disguise. He may be the opportunity that this nation was waiting for to correct and reconfigure its course of action. With a grain of salt, or I can accept the view but I won’t bet my money on it.
As the American value-system continues to gather gutted,humiliated and mutilated, all one can hope for is a little dose of sanity for Trump, and the tormentor. Perhaps the upcoming visit to the Vatican can contain a positive impact on him and pivot him toward doing bigger and better things. Can Pope Francis – the man Trump ridiculed during the 2016 campaign – shower his blessings,assign him on the path of repentance and plant the seeds of humanity in his heart?
I, for one, or contain strong doubts but miracles can sometimes happen.
Source: tribune.com.pk