Wednesday, November 9, 2016

And She Lost because most thought that her place was not in the corridors of power as a ruler.

There is silence everywhere. Only the Trump supporters are jubilant. With raised fists and renewed energy all over their faces, they are celebrating. In Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida, Michigan, and North Carolina, Hillary Clinton's supporters are stunned. How did it happen, they ask, yet they all fail to speak the most visible and plausible reason.
Not enough of them came out to vote. In all these battleground states, as well as in Wisconsin and Michigan, there were enough Democrats to give Clinton a resounding victory. But they did not come out to vote. While the Trump strategy was simple. Increase your voters in counties, Republicans always win.
The Trump base was excited.
Muslims, non-White immigrants, Latinos, Syrian refugees, Jewish influence, African American prominence in the country that has over 70 percent white Christian population were some of the targeted communities in Trump electoral strategy that he played well and created fear among his constituents that if he is not elected they would lose whiteness, Christianity and all that the country has stood for centuries.
People believed him. He questioned the legitimacy of Clinton in serving the nation and the people accepted his logic and when the FBI director reopened the investigation into her emails 11 days before the election, their condemnation of her character even grew stronger.
But all this could have been overcome if the traditional vote bank of the Democratic Party had come out in large numbers.
The African American vote shrank and their enthusiasm for Clinton did not match their zeal for Obama in 2008 and 2012.
Latinos registered in large numbers, but they were split between a religious dictate that many of their churches issued against Clinton and their own conscience that wanted them to reject someone who had questioned their legitimacy in the country.
Muslims were not as active as the seriousness of the election had demanded. Only in Nevada, they actively worked to ensure that they bring out the maximum number of their voters to the polling booth to ensure that Democrats secure a strong victory and they succeeded in that.
In Florida, Ohio, North Carolina, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania they were dormant. A large number of them did not vote as in their view voting was not permitted in Islam. Then a substantial number of them refrained from voting Clinton because she was a woman and then a good number of Muslims were too indifferent to the challenges that the country was grappling with.
Jewish voters were more concerned about the candidate's commitment to Israel policy and many of them were angry at the Iran deal that was one of the issues Trump exploited to the fullest. Their votes for Hillary were not as solid as they were in the past.
Women and yes, women in general were not convinced that someone from their gender could ever lead a nation. Some 54 percent of them belonging to evangelical churches accepted their pastor's advice to not vote Clinton because women are not meant to rule a nation.
And white male voters were angry because their jobs were shifted to abroad. A few of them bothered to question the Republican leadership for allowing this to happen. They blamed a black president and his cronies for that.
All this resulted in one thing and only one thing.
A woman was prevented from becoming the head of the world's most powerful nation. It could have been the most earth-shaking moment in world history. It could have settled the debate about women's qualities as commander in chief in a man's world forever. It could have proven once for all that women can no longer live as a second class citizen in their own country or religion.
It is this set back that the nation would not be able to recover for long.  Parties win and lose. Policies come and go. Leaders fail or succeed, but nothing was more important than to ultimately demolish the myth that women are not meant to lead nations. It was time to prove that the world was no longer in an outdated idea that the creation of God suppressed for centuries and reduced to the role of a glorified domestic servant would not be able to govern a nation and uplift it.
 I am not concerned about the wall, or Obamacare, Muslim ban or Nafta treaty or mass deportation because Trump and the Republicans know it well that they would plunge the country into a crisis from which the recovery would be impossible if they tried to pursue what was promised in the elections. I am confident that the majority of the country would stand against these policies, but what the majority of the country is not willing to elect at the moment is the election of a woman as head of the most powerful nation of the world.

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