In 2008 when the United states elected their first non-white president, most of the world saw it as a welcome change for a country whose past is drenched with the blood of colored people, but what these folk ignored was how much it would irk the red part of the country. Their response has been so extreme that the entire world will have to face the repercussions for at least the next decade and the country may have to deal with it for next several decades. The country that was Obama nation, has become an abomination is less than 4 years.

One useful thing that happened here was that they showed what they really are. I initially drafted this post on 1st of October, well before the 1st vote for the 2020 US elections was cast. I was under the impression that the country was in for 4 more years of misery and we were in for 4 more years of laughter at their expense. Well, I turned out to be both right and wrong. 74 million Americans negated the 70 million Americans who wanted 4 more years of Trump. Even if you disregard his pre-political life, what he has said and done in the last 4 years should have convinced any sane person to not vote for him again.

It would be the equivalent of Indians electing a guy who lives like Vijay Malya and talks like Kamal R Khan, becoming the laughimg stock of the world and then again deciding to re-elect the same person.

This number 70 million. The largest ever vote for a loosing candidate in an US election is therefore a much more important number than the 74 million that Joe Biden got to win the election. There is an old Indian saying “यथा राजा तथा प्रजा” which roughly translates to ‘As is the king, so are the subjects’. It still relevant in today’s age where democracies have replaced monarchies in most of the countries. Trump’s subjects were mostly psychopaths or his partners in past crimes. But the word subject has also a new meaning with respect to the changes in the way leaders function. The modern day subjects are instead the citizens of the country. Thus the saying has to be turned on its head to be relevant now.

यथा प्रजा तथा राजा. As are the citizens, so is there elected representative. Trump not only showed us what he is but he has also what America really is. It’s a place where people from other countries go to make money and for this money, they tolerate the bigotry they are subjected to. Most of the world thinks that last four years are an aberration and come next year the status quo that existed till 2016 will return. But reality might be far from that. In 2017, this blog started with a prediction of what America would look like under Trump. Now I’m going to make another prediction of what the next few decades will look like.

I predict that Democrats will retain presidency for a long time and the civil unrest in America will keep worsening. Here is how it is going to play out…. Assuming that Trump doesn’t pull off a coup and stays in power.

Come January 2021, democrats are going to fall one seat short of senate majority, meaning they will not be able to do anything significant they planned to do once in office. Trump will keep hammering away on Twitter like a psychotic reality show judge humiliating its contestants. Rupublican law makers, who are now accepting the reality that Trumpism is here to stay with America will keep supporting Trump for the fear of not getting votes from the Trump base. Now that he has lost the immunity of being the president, there will be a flurry of law suits and investigations against his businesses. He will get convicted for a few minor things but will not have to do any jail time because the Republicans and the judges he appointed will see to it that most of the sentences are in fines and settlements. Trump will run again in 2024 and lose. He will continue to cry fowl and play victim. He will lose by a greater margin then now because some of the Americans who voted for him this time will come to terms with who he actually is. But the majority of the under educated white American voters will stick with trump.

One variable in this prediction is Vladimir Putin staying healthy and in power. If he doesn’t and someone else takes over and decides to humiliate America furthur by releasing evidence of all the allegations of interference, It may pave a way for more Americans reevaluating their allegiances.

Why do I make such bold and gloomy predictions? Data suggests that an average trump voter is non college educated and white. In other words ignorant. It will take generations and great effort in terms of educating them and their offspring of the realities of the world. The current political setup makes it extremely difficult to do it. After all this is a country that still refuses to accept metric system.

These people still live in their bubbles of outdated principles and are resist any reality checks. Most of the world has moved beyond race superiority, mainly because of the globalization. There is no turning the dials back. The anger and frustration of having to live through the precidency of a black person for 8 years made these gullible Americans make a deal with the Devil. Now there is no way they can break this deal. All of us have to now endure this new reality. The non white people in the US have no other choice but to make a deal with democrats. Because democrats say that they represent so many types of people with such varied priorities, they will not be able to cater the any of the needs. People in America will keep pulling their hair out, trolling each other and screaming at each other and the rest of the world will sit back and enjoy the show.