American Psyche & Emergence Of Donald Trump
By Vishwamithra1984 –February 24, 2016
“I think that there’s something in the American psyche, it’s almost this kind of right or privilege, this sense of entitlement, to resolve our conflicts with violence. There’s an arrogance to that concept if you think about it. To actually have to sit down and talk, to listen, to compromise, that’s hard work.” ~Michael Moore
Donald Trump
America is in an election year. The usual barbs, insults, arguments and counter-arguments thrown about by those who contend for nomination from each Party, Democratic and Republican, on political stage in the rural and urban areas as well as big cities in the United States are overshadowing the real issues and principles and policies of each candidate. Well, that is the nature of politics and that essentially is the nature of electioneering. Yet unlike in most third and fourth world countries, politicians in the USA are ostensibly held to a higher standard. That again may well be defined as part of arrogance of the American psyche.
When one looks at the development of American politics, especially in the last five to six decades, since the assassination of President John Kennedy, America seems to have lost its way, not only in the way she conducted herself in the International arena, American political culture as a whole, within its troika of governance (Executive, Legislature and Judiciary), is seen to be dangerously dashing towards the fringes of the two main political parties. One can attribute this mad dash to more than a half a dozen reasons and events. America, as all other countries are, is susceptible to the vagaries of modern-day developments, the technological revolution of which the United States is the proudly claiming to be the prime mover has made most of Americans, young as well as old, willing slaves of that very revolution. One wonders whether what Oscar Wilde once said with cruel cynicism that “America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between” might after all come true. Well, let us not be as harsh as Wilde was on the only super power in the world today.
Thanks to something called television, radio and now modern social media, news and news-making events visit our drawing rooms on an hourly basis, without even the assistance of so-called celebrity anchors. Live coverage of political rallies and in their wake coupled with instant analysis provide the usual news-junkies with sufficient substance for their evening conversation around the clubhouses while social media lends itself as a platform to invite robust interaction among many participants scattered all over the globe.
