By Ayah Paul Abine
America voyaged from the
land of hooligans, nonconformists and adventurers, through the era of cowboys
of gladiatorial killings, through the War of Independence, “workaholicism”,
equal opportunities to the America of the first “black” president. God is such
a HUGE miracle! Programming the advent of the first lady president immediately
after that turning point of the first “black” president! (You may wish to see
the pun in the phrase “first lady”).
And things are working
out with such ease! Mitt Romney who is not even a candidate sees American
values in holding himself out as the moral authority: the defender of American
values. And an immoral platform he chooses: publicly hurling invectives without
qualms at the people’s choice that Trump is!
The new American value means
Romney accepting endorsement and money from Trump when Romney desired to enter
the White House; only for the very Romney to turn round and discover the
horrible devil in his former comrade, Trump, who is now in an identical posture
in reversal. It is new American value to embark upon negative campaign as
against the traditional campaign of presenting a sellable economic programme; a
protective security/foreign relations policy; a programme that defends the
state of the union…
And the gullible world
buys Romney’s blind, narrow view. Only yesterday, the very accomplices watched
leaders of nations kill their citizens in their thousands with reprehensible
passivity. In the case of Trump today, they have repugnantly taken the posture
of dictating and depicting the qualities of an American president. Even the old
and feeble debilitated by dementia! Interference in other countries’ internal
affairs has been laid to rest because it is a certain Donald Trump. That is
justice in the modern world!
Worst still is Romney’s
hidden agenda: crusading for the so-called “third party” nomination that would
get Romney to reap without having sown. One wonders whether Romney has
obliterated the word “cheating” from his own dictionary. And the puzzle of the
century is that the so-called establishment of the Republican Party is
incapable of visualizing the consequences.
Even at the level of
primaries, independents and democrats are voting for Trump. Investing anyone
other than Trump in an “open convention” would result in Trump’s supporters
resorting to casting a protest vote. That does mean easy victory for the first
lady president of the United States of America! And that is exactly how God
works: creating situations where apparently normal persons go amok, and unconsciously
pave the way for God’s choice as God has ordained!
Whichever way things go
now, the “establishment” has so damaged the Republican Party that, even between
Trump and Hillary, the latter seems much closer to the doorstep of her former
”home” – the White House!
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