Trump Triumphs US Media Pundits

The US media got it wrong as usual and I was not surprised. While I predicted the result, the reaction after the result was what left me stunned. 

The  Media

American media called it a tragedy using different words. I was puzzled and surprised. Various reasons have been given in the analysis of Trump Triumphing Media Pundits. The first was racism and that KKK won!  This makes no sense as they also elected Obama for two terms. Does this mean racists voted for Obama ?

Another one was it was a sexist vote as Hillary was a woman. Then how come a majority of women voted for Trump? 
 
Other reasons  include only illiterate people voted for Trump. Then there are claims that only poor people voted for Trump. 

Both the above reasons seem to suggest that the poor and illiterate are a majority in the US while all those who voted for Hillary were educated, rich, unbiased and feminist. Is this what most of the American media is suggesting ?



Finally today, Asra Nomani posted the first sane article in the Washington Post.

I’m a Muslim, a woman and an immigrant. I voted for Trump.


The American people

I did not expect Hillary supporters to go on the offensive because their candidate didn't get elected. Burning effigies, really?  Protest marches, really ? This from Democratic
Party supporters who believe in democracy ? How ironical! The educated are fighting because they didn't win? It seems they are in denial that they have to accept the verdict.
Suddenly, they are discovering that they have an electoral college system that doesn't work! Wow.

Twitter is full of incidents of how White Supremacists who are Trump supporters are  threatening minorities - lingual, racial and religious in the US. They have been doing it before  under Obama but suddenly Trump victory has got people complaining on Twitter. Why is Obama quiet about these complaints and you don't see Hillary's supporters condemning it ? 
If that is true, I condemn it though Americans will claim they are living the American dream and how it is a huge melting pot, etc.
   
Being the businessman that he is, Trump hopefully is a better President and unifies US and gets USA to what it was always good at - technical innovation and peace making. If Trump is able to make US and Russia work together, that will end the proxy Cold war that has been funding Islamic terrorism worldwide.

Will it happen ? In six months, we will know.

 

Learn from India : How to make ancient monuments disappear into thin air

When the Bamiyan Buddhas were destroyed by the Taliban, it caused a worldwide outcry. When the Babri Masjid was destroyed 24 years ago, it caused communal violence and a worldwide outcry.

However, since then over 92 monuments have silently disappeared and the media has no clue about it.

What does one do when the authorities don't care about displacing people and damaging monuments in India ?

Read this article on how the Congress led UPA government managed to do it and how the BJP is silently taking it forward in India. The same central government which is there to protect history and not destroy it.

How to make historical monuments disappear into thin air

lakh = 100,000 

Will another  worldwide outcry put a stop to this or do we wait until it gets completely destroyed like before?

Tamilnadu assembly elections 2016

I wonder who will win Tamilnadu assembly elections next month. All parties are confident they will win and this makes it one of the dullest elections of all time.

The main contenders are ADMK, DMK, DMDK-PWA alliance and PMK.

While many media polls state that the ADMK and DMK are the parties to watch out for, DMDK-PWA alliance seems to be slowly gaining ground with youth especially after the attempt to split DMDK allegedly by DMK. 

What worries me is this - most of the leaders seem to be ill - Karunanidhi of DMK is in a wheelchair, Jayalalitha hardly meets the press which leads to speculation if she is well, DMDK chief seems to have trouble walking up the stairs. 

PMK candidate is a doctor - Anbumani Ramadoss looks healthy but it is a caste based party which is unable to shake off the caste stamp despite what the leader promises -prohibition and removal of corruption in the state.

All promise so much but delivery of it is doubtful as we all know about an Indian politician's promise...

 

 

Who will be the next US President ?

Most readers worldwide are wondering who will be the next US president as the primaries show the above two as candidates for the Republican and Democratic Parties respectively.

As usual George Clooney has started calling Trump xenophobic, but then all pro-Democrats do that.

Personally, I like Trump despite his politically incorrect opinions. In the end, he does get things done and that is what matters. Hillary would create history if she were to be elected as the First US Woman President. But I feel the Democrats have been in power for too long and it is time for GOP to take back power. Democrats are suave, sweet and just talk. Republicans might seem like fools ( except for George Bush Jr. who really was foolish enough to invade Iraq and Afghanistan), rich, dominating but at least they act and don’t lecture about action.

I like Hillary but feel she should have told her husband in 1998 to go to hell when the Lewinsky scandal broke out. I would have respected her if she had divorced her husband instead of standing by him. I can understand it must have been for Chelsea but she should have brooked no BS from her husband. That would have proved to me she was a strong leader.

Some say, Trump is more of a dictator rather than a strong leader. I disagree. Just because he doesn’t please mainstream media, doesn’t mean he is a dictator! And we all know what media can do when they like or dislike someone.

Even though many from the rest of the world think Hillary is the better leader, I am all for Trump to Triumph. With him at the helm, we would know where US stands and that matters more to me than all the politically correct talk and zero action by Obama and Hillary.

© 2016 by Deepa Kandaswamy