For the past few days, I have remained fixed on CNN watching how
the American media has become so bemused with Trump’s soaring position
at the polls, regardless of his very wild and unpresidential statements.
The fixation on a candidate who trades yabis for substance has become
awesome. There seem to be this love hate relationship with the American
media. Hummmmmmm! America for show.
On the 7th of December 2015 the front runner of the Republican
Party, Donald Trump advocated for a “total and complete shutdown of
Muslims entering the United States”
Since then, Trump has been widely and correctly criticized for
this, accused of wanting to reproduce discriminatory policies like those
of prewar Europe, when Jews were forcibly registered. But looking at
the timeline of events since the Paris attacks, and indeed in the months
before them, it becomes clear that Trump isn’t actually the problem
here. It has become obvious that Trump is merely indulging a sentiment
that was already widespread, especially after the Paris/California
shooting.
The fact that Trump has bluntly refused to stand down on his
declaration about Muslims which is getting widespread outrage shows how
accustomed Americans have become to out-in-the-open anti-Muslim
prejudice in the country. Can’t say I blame them that much.
America’s climate of anti-Muslim hatred and fear is on the high
rise, a form of bigotry known as Islamophobia, is rampaging out of
control. And it has very real and legitimately scary implications for
the millions of Americans who follow Islam.
The day after Trump’s “I no send you” comments, a makeshift
militia, wearing military-style camo, some of them masked, showed up
outside an Islamic center in Irving, Texas, carrying assault rifles and
announcing they had come to stop the “Islamization of America.” Where is
all of this heading to, one wonders. It’s not that Trump is the cause
of such strong anti-Muslim hatred but rather that his comments widely
believed and legitimately popular among a slice of Americans is the
leading edge of an Islamophobic movement that may turn violent. It may
no longer be police shooting Inocent black, but average Americans
hunting and killing Muslims.
The threat of violence often has the same theatrical point as
violence itself, to terrify and intimidate, to inflict psychological
suffering on the targeted group in the form of fear and alienation, to
force that targeted group to live a little bit less in the open and more
in the shadows.
So my question is this, for how long will Donald Trump be allowed
to fan this Islamophobic messages which is definitely causing the GOPs
sleepless nights. Is he going to be the favoured candidate for the
republicans. A good meal for Hilarry Clinton if you ask me. How can the
excesses of Trump be cut down. For months, Trump has defied the laws of
political correctness and gravity by maintaining his lead despite a
never-ending string of mis-yarns and controversies. I strongly doubt if
his improbable campaign can go the distance
Yes oooo, America may be down for the show. After all, sleazy shows
like Jerry Springer was a Hit. But It is time for Americans to restore
their political reputation by demonstrating the ability of the American
political process to deflate the bubble of a candidate so high on
self-importance and so low on policy-specifics. Donald is definitely in
for the show, the new Reality show. Maybe very soon, republicans will
have this to say. YOU ARE FIRED.
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