Why it is important for Americans to remove the ‘hate Americans’ tag….

America that is USA is a brilliant nation, there shouldn’t be any doubt on that. But unfortunately the political elite have created one big mess, I guess it is the Wild West thing- the cowboys aint do no wrong syndrome. Alpha male juvenility may work in some jungle but not in civilized surroundings and surely not as linchpin for foreign policy of a powerful nation, they have to be more responsible. The American attempt to unipolarise world to its material advantage is ill-conceived.

America's contribution to human civilization is stupendous. It is nothing short of incredible. The idea of America is tremendous. This blogger has read much about Americans, as also interacted with American tourists (some were snobbish though….but that is ok since it is not necessary to be mannered to people whom you bump in at tourist spots, particularly to inquisitive locals like say me who was just hanging around. But I do like the way they speak English, that nasal twang. It took lot of time for me understand that one!!). Unfortunately recently the Market has taken over almost all forms of interactions, and American based MNCs are one of the most vicious particularly the consumer goods category. It is bringing in a blatant form of consumerism and wasteful culture, indulgence as a mantra will only backfire. In countries with acute disparities like India the backlash is severe, with depleting natural resources the struggle will turn more violent.

America is so important to the world that each policy decision taken at Washington has global impact. Because of Technological innovations and inventions, because the Entertainment industry based in America- that has impact on billions of people around the world, because it has Armaments-nuclear stockpile that could decimate the planet, because they consume more than anyone on earth….all these put together makes America a nation to reckon with, a nation who’s future is very much the future of the world. But unfortunately American leaders have failed in most cases, not able to live up to the expectations; some even like Bush were disaster.

American presidential election therefore is a very significant event for the world. What candidates utter is scrutinized by the world- in the mainstream media, in blogs, in chat rooms and so on. This blogger is very much concerned about the process of election funding since this could influence policy decisions in future. Further this blogger is a skeptic of TV room or stage managed debates, a good debater may not be a good communicator, and good communicator may not always be a good decision taker, furthermore humanism may not be possible to be show cased. America needs a Humanist to be its next President, infact the world expects it from America.

The whole exercise of "I am better than others" dilutes humanism and other egalitarian understanding, the reason it does get ugly. It is sad and hopeless situation. The candidates need be responsible, this probably the last chance for Americans to get it right. The world is spiraling at an exponential rate contributed by fast depleting resources, dissemination of destructive potential and ideology. World needs Americans to have a President who takes a humanist approach to international issues and treaties. In a Market driven world this looks very bleak, market dynamics doesn’t allow, realpolitik compulsions prevents, collective selfishness seems to define policies….….still we can hope.