A fresk look at US Presidential election

I read this piece somewhere and liked it so much that I decided to post it on my blog. 

The people are unable to understand how and why Donald Trump could win in view of the whole lot of negative aura surrounding him (He feels it is a false aura created by self appointed liberals).

This friend of our feels that if you (we, the readers) still don’t understand why Donald Trump won, then you have a serious arrogance and ignorance problem.

In his view, we, the readers of this post, live in urban areas. He assumes that we are educated, and assume ourselves to be liberal thinkers and a typical left-wingers.

He adds that we, the readers, work in air-conditioned offices, go to gym after work, watch news on tv, jog on the treadmills. Then eat our dinner out somewhere with friends, probably not cooking at home, and sometimes you fly between cities for office work or business. 

When you look down from the plane window and see those endless farmlands and mountains in the countrysides, in the hinterland, you are thinking “I can’t imagine living a life down there.”

When you saw Trump won, you were shocked. Holy shit! There’s not a single person around me who supports Trump, how could he win? That’s where the problem lies. You are living in a completely different world than those Trump supporters.

When you refuel your car, have you ever wondered where the gas comes from, if not imported? Who drilled the oil for you?

When you charge your phone, have you ever wondered where the electricity comes from? Who dug the coal to power the plant?

When you shop in the supermarket, have you ever wondered where the fresh vegetables and fruits come from? Who drove the truck all the way from farms to your city, to deliver those goods?

Those are the people who support Donald Trump. Have you ever talked to any one of them?

Without you, they can still feed themselves, but without them, you will be starved to death. You don’t know how to grow crops, and you dare not to kill a chicken. So now how could you despise them as “uneducated racists”?

When they watch the news, even when watching local tv channels, the camera is always on the big cities far away from them. They are ignored, as if they don’t exist in this country. No one pays attention to them, and no one speaks for them, until Donald Trump came and embraced them.

They could drive a truck for paltry salary. This was the case some 20 years ago and remains the same till now. They work all days of the week, but now the illegal immigrants are taking away their jobs.

They could work in a factory for paltry salaries, but now their jobs have gone to China and Mexico when the workers there can still earn a decent salary but the US citizens have lost their jobs.

You can’t urge a middle aged man with a high school diploma having a family to raise to go to college again and learn programming or investment banking. He can’t and he can’t afford.

You also can’t say in 10 years robots are doing the job for them and they should just vanish because their minds and skills don’t follow the era.

They are human beings. They are also lovely nice people. They don’t hate you. They work hard so you can live a comfortable life. Why do you hate them? Why do you label them as racist deplorables and xenophobic bigots without even knowing how hard their lives are ?

When they are losing jobs and falling into poverty, they don’t know what to do. They stay at home and turn on the TV and see Obama and Hillary speaking on ABC News: “The biggest problem our society now facing is climate change.”

They may have voted for the current regime in the last election and hoped that the govt will bring change to their lives, but they could only sigh when they see this. So they switch to news and see Donald Trump speaking on his rally and declaring, “We need to rebuild our inner cities, we need to bring jobs back.” They follow him and say: “YES! Let’s make America great again!”

When they saw their president visiting big cities in East Coast after hurricane in recent past, but noticed that the same president was playing golf when the devastating floods hit their lands and destroyed thousands of homes this summer, they knew they were forgotten.

However, when they saw Trump visiting their area after the flood, they knew here is someone who actually cared for them. If you are them, who will you vote for?

They are the silent majorities. They live in your flyover states. They don’t care about LGBT or like. They are not racist or homophobic. They just want jobs to feed their families.

Please give up your arrogance and start to care about those people. They are Americans too. In fact, they might be more American than you are, since many of your clients and customers are foreign.

They have no methods to let you hear them. All the medias don’t speak for them, all the celebrities don’t pay attention to them. All the career politicians don’t represent them. The only weapon they have are their ballots. They vote to knock you out of your utopia. That’s the power of democracy. That’s why democracy is great. It never ignores anyone.

If you believe your value is progressive and right, you need to help them getting out of their trouble first. You can’t blame and mock them. It will only push them away from you even more.

Trump has been a democrat longer than republican in his life. He has married 3 times, agrees with progressive income tax, has been pro-choice in most of his life and pro-LGBT all the time. The only hardcore conservative thing I can think of him is anti-alcohol. However, he could still defeat 16 truly conservative republican candidates and won more votes in the primaries than anyone else in the history. This has already proven that the silent majorities are much more tolerant now on social issues. They just want someone to fix the economy for them.

Now it’s your chance to work with them, help them under the 4 years of Trump’s presidency. Stop protesting and introspect yourself. Isn’t your arrogance and ignorance that brought Trump to the White House?

Folks, these are not my views but I read it somewhere and decided to post it on my blog. The reason being the crux, the sole of the post being true and I feel that it applies to India as well.

Here also we find a lot of commotion in the media, on our tv channels, where the self appointed thinkers, liberals, socialists, and celebs, try to preach their ideas and views all the time, without giving a damn to the real issues facing the mostly illiterate or semi literate peasants, small town folks, daily wage earners, and poor and destitute persons living in their own backyards.  

I find similiarities in the American perspective being applicable at home as well. Perhaps this is why the poor people standing in queues to get a few notes exchanged, who are deeply distressed and somewhat tense, but they are still saying that the demonetisation plan is good for us all.To the secularists, socialists, liberals, and media celebs, this should be an eye opener. Perhaps, this explains the astounding popularity of PM Modi among the  masses in the hinterlands of India.