Donald Trump's win as a President of America is a victory of a man full of ego, arrogance, lies, hatred and much more as well as one who has faced more than 3,500 legal actions in federal and state courts during the past three decades as well as being the first presidential candidate in 40 years to refuse to release his income tax returns. The list goes on.
Americans who voted for him believe that he is a magician who by waving magic wands will deliver what ever he promised and now he has already started slowly backtracking.
People have a tendency to jump into the bandwagon and can be easily brainwashed by con artists, swindlers, politicians, Babas, Gurus, Bapus and religious leaders (of any religions of the world) and Americans are not immune to it.
On November 18, 1978 Jim Jones and more than 900 members of his People's Temple committed mass suicide in the jungle of Guyana. Jim Jones was very charismatic and attracted people who were feeling vulnerable or disenfranchised for whatever reason. Most of them were African-Americans, and there were also white people, Jewish people, religious Christians and communists. His followers are wide-eye innocents, swallowing his outrageous teachings along with his cyanide-laced Kool-Aid.
Thomas Jefferson, an American founding father and principal author of the Declaration of Independence and third President of United States, very rightly said: "A difference between politicians and statesmen is that a politicians think of next election while a statesmen think of next generation".
During my first year of commerce collage at Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanaga, Gujarat, India some 60 years ago our political science Professor Late Shri RD Parikh told us a nice but true joke of politician still vividly I remember. A little boy was standing in balcony of his first floor house one evening and upon seeing his father coming home he was giggling and laughing when father came underneath balcony he told his son jump from balcony and he will catch him which he did but father didn't catch him and boy fell on lawn of house garden and he was crying.
A village elder man was passing from there and he was furious and scolding father of boy-what type of farther are you? Why you didn't catch him? Very calmly the man said, look I am politician and I was giving first lesson of politics to my boy that in politics you don't trust your own father. The elder man without saying anything went of.
Moral of this joke is wait and watch and let's see what Donald Trump is delivering from his all promises given at election campaign.
Suresh and Bhavna Patel
Markham, Canada
