THE Hindu Times of India had it splashed prominently how American presidential candidate, Vivek Ramaswamy described President Zelensky of Ukraine – “a comedian in cargo pants.” I don’t know how Zelensky replied, if he did at all. But in following American politics, I would refer to Ramaswamy as a comedian in a Freudian Silicone Valley suit.
Here is the justification for my description. Ramaswamy believes he can get elected if he presents himself as a Trumpian extremist. But there can be no traction for a candidate that wants to be like Trump because the real McKoy is himself a candidate. Trump is so far ahead of Ramaswamy that by the time the primaries are over, Ramaswamy will be so humiliated that he will vanish from politics.
Of course don’t put it pass Ramaswamy to think he can be Trump’s running mate. I find Ramaswamy’s view of life and politics obnoxious, bordering on evil. When you hear and see what comes out of this man’s mouth, then, you want to know if civilization can survive. He says that his parents came from India to the US with no money.
He keeps repeating that mantra in a self-destructive way. His policies on immigration are to the extreme of Trump. If Ramaswamy is elected, the world will never see an immigrant coming to the US without money and making something of his/herself. Ramaswamy wants to curtail immigration into the US to the point where the US will have no immigrants.
He announced that if he becomes president (God forbid), he will abolish the H-1B visa. That is the visa that allows American companies to employ skilled foreigners. But you are not going to believe that Ramaswamy used the H-1B visa 29 times to import skilled people for his companies. We shouldn’t worry about the rise of Ramaswamy because he will never rise in politics but his personality shows you the dangerous line-faults that inhere in Homo sapiens.
Next is US federal congresswoman Lauren Boebart. She reminds me of the hypocrites we have in some of our women groups and our LGBTQ community in Guyana. These women groups tell the Guyanese society of how important it is to empower women.
But when Guyanese women’s right to vote was almost taken away from them between March and July in 2020, these women groups did not see the need to speak out about this naked disenfranchisement.
These women groups were silent when, in the post-election violence in September of 2020, a 16-year- old girl and her grandmother were forcefully taken out of their car, beaten and robbed. She described her ordeal in the press but none of those righteous women groups offered any support. And why? Maybe because of ethnic instincts.
So, Ms. Boebert is a screaming right-winger who wants to protect children from lesbian mothers who she said should not be reading books to small children. But this same lady was in a theatre with children and their parents in the audience and she was videoed lewd things with her. Like Ramaswamy, Boebery manifests the congenital flaws in Homo sapiens.
Enter the Rolling Stone magazine. Founded in 1967 by Mr. Jan Wenner, I never liked that magazine’s periodical lists of the greatest singers, albums and singles. Any school boy could see that it was biased in favour of White singers. The prioritising was simply pathetic and absurd. Now Mr. Wenner has shown his Freudian mind.
In an interview with the New York Times, Mr. Wenner defended why he excluded Black singers from his list. He was brutally frank. He said Black singers do not measure up to White ones. If ever there was a statement that contains unadulterated racism, this is one. For anyone to say that Black American singers cannot match White ones is simply evil. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has since removed Wenner as a director.
We in Guyana understood the mind of people like Wenner after the 2020 elections. Wenner in the US and many in Guyana simply buried their Freudian minds for a long time, then, one day it came to the surface. Wenner was a racist all along, but we couldn’t see because he didn’t show it.
In Guyana, certain class forces were always anti-Indian, had Westernized minds and authoritarian instincts. They locked down their Freudian minds for decades, then, an occasion arose where the mental suppression was enough and they showed their true colour. That colour/class Freudianism was always there, but Guyanese were too blind to see it. The Wenner infamy should teach us a little about what is buried in some Freudian minds in Guyana.