The best way to know the self is feeling oneself at the moments of reckoning. The feeling of being alone, just with your senses, may lead you to think more consciously. More and more of such moments may sensitize ‘you towards you’, towards others. We become regular with introspection and retrospection. We get ‘the’ gradual connect to the higher self we may name Spirituality or God or just a Humane Conscious. We tend to get a rhythm again in life. We need to learn the art of being lonely in crowd while being part of the crowd. A multitude of loneliness in mosaic of relations! One needs to feel it severally, with conscience, before making it a way of life. One needs to live several such lonely moments. One needs to live severallyalone.

Tuesday 4 April 2017

TRUMP'S 'EXTREME VETTING'

'Extreme vetting' is Donald Trump's favourite phrase. He always use it to convey his viewpoint on how to regulate entry of foreigners in the United States. During an interview last year, he had said that he didn't care what people called it but, if elected, he would see to it that people from suspicious countries are subjected to 'deep scrutiny'.

An NBC News report quoted Donald Trump saying, "We're going to have a thing called 'extreme vetting.' And if people want to come in, there's going to be extreme vetting. We're going to have extreme vetting. They're going to come in and we're going to know where they came from and who they are." He reiterated this in his speeches and tweets.

After becoming the US president, he introduced his highly controversial travel ban plan, targeting people from some Muslim majority countries, which was banned by the courts for being discriminatory and in bad taste. In defence, he tweeted that the US needed 'strong borders and extreme vetting.

Donald J. TrumpVerified account
@realDonaldTrump
Our country needs strong borders and extreme vetting, NOW. Look what is happening all over Europe and, indeed, the world - a horrible mess!
6:38 PM - 29 Jan 2017

In the light of Donald Trump's failed travel ban plans and his harsh rhetoric on immigrants, refugees, foreign nationals visiting the US, Muslims and racial minorities, we are going to hear more and more of this phrase. 

Like it is phrased, it is going to be more and more extreme in coming days as Trump and his administration will try to impose its narrow worldview in the context of Trump's mounting failures and controversies.

Trump won the US polls riding high on an inward looking, divisive agenda and embarked soon on implementing it with prolific disdain for the global trade and military agreements including the NATO, his desperate emphasis on ejecting out immigrants and racial minorities, his audacious verbal launch of the wall along the Mexican border that miserably failed and most recently, his biggest debacle so far, when he and his Republican Party could not garner enough votes in the US Congress to 'repeal and replace' Obamacare, the healthcare programme launched by Barack Obama in 2010. Trump's loss precipitates even more because he demonized Obamacare like anything.

But as most of these Trump policies have failed or have attracted domestic as well as international condemnation, Trump and his team may chose to play even harder its inward looking, divisive agenda that had initially propelled his supporters, in order to divert attention from his increasing failures and decreasing popularity. Indications coming out from the most powerful public office in the world tell so.

©SantoshChaubey