The recent past of US election campaigns has seen some
significant ups and downs, where the traditional thinking and the people’s
mindset is concerned. The current president Barrack Obama is a live example of
such revolutions. Finally the citizens of United States were able to put aside
their traditional mindset and choose a president representing all the people of
America. The black president was able to show the people that they are able to
change now and move towards the new era.
But it yet remains to be seen that whether the American
people are ready for the socialism that have so long been a taboo concept in
the politics of the country. The word is not completely unheard of in the
history of the country’s politics. But first time, I think have come a senator
who is running for the presidential position and at the same time not afraid to
call himself a socialist. Even if the Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders hasn’t
clarified the extent to which he would favor socialism over capitalism, he has
at least spoken the unspeakable S-word.
Previously wise man like Einstein also pointed
out the inefficiency of capitalism but such wise people were busy telling their
wise tales and achieving scientific achievements. But our senator might be the
first influential person who is going on preaching about Socialism. Maybe it’s
time to at least understand what socialism actually is and ponder over our
options.
The other democrat candidate Secretary Hillary Clinton still
couldn’t favor middle class people over elites of United States. Maybe she is
afraid about the elites getting angry and leaving the country. And with them
will go a huge tax revenue for the government. She was even so far ready to use
the tax money to bail out the famous Wall Street crisis. As it has been public
now to this point that she voted in favor of the bail out, but Bernie was not
so agreeable to use the tax money of the middle class family to give any kind
of relief to the elites of the Wall Street.
Even if Bernie couldn’t change the economy of the country
and establish the welfare state immediately, he is surely going to introduce
the concept of society and community welfare more than the greed for the tax
money in his new plans and policies, if he is indeed elected for the position.
Having an origin from the Asian side I know quite well how the Indian current
Prime Minister Modi won his elections almost unexpectedly. During the election
campaigns he was seen as a positive change in the politics of India, but even
so many people were not ready to accept that the country might be ready for
such a big change in its politics.
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We also saw the same case scenario in our own country,
during president Obama’s electoral campaign. He was too an unexpected change in
the history of our country’s politics. Are we again going to see such a
dramatic victory for our Socialist senator Bernie Sanders? Well fingers are
crossed. Till now Secretary Clinton is leading the campaign with a wide gap,
but who knows. May be with the changing attitude of the country’s media and all
the followers that seem to sprout suddenly from nowhere, may be Bernie can
after all run for the presidential candidate as a democrat. And from there the
distance to the Oval office of White House is not so far.
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