The New Face of the USA
The New Face of the USA This week the results of the midterm elections poured in. It was a tsunami of a kind that probably happens once in a century or two. What has happened this week is calling for celebration. But more than that it is beckoning us all for reflection. The country was divided when it voted in the last Presidential elections. It is always going to be divided. But even in division there are good and bad divisions. The divisions we saw in the last few Presidential elections cannot be said to be of the good kind. One of the markers for our elections is how the world reacts to us. When the decent people around the world rejoice it is safe to say that we did the right thing for our country. When they begin to worry about us we ought to know that something is amiss. This time there were jubilation around the globe. And it wasn’t even a Presidential election ! The world was astute enough to realize that it was a Presidential rebuke. Rebuke of a policy of destructiv...
