“Elections have consequences.”
President Barrack Obama
About a year and a half ago, America elected Donald J. Trump as her 45th president. Like with all his predecessors, half the country voted for him, the other half selected his opponent. Unlike the case with all his predecessors, long after the elections, close to half of the country is still not willing to accept the people’s legitimate choice.
Never in the short history of this relatively young nation has a president been so controversial, arousing such hysterical feelings one way or the other. Amazingly, extreme opinions have also been rampant among my fellow Viet refugees who presumably should have been a lot more detached from US politics.
For those who can and have read this forum, obviously, I certainly have been more than involved in the red-hot debate about this president, and just as obviously, have been squarely on his side, to the dismay of many.
Full disclosure first: I did not vote for Trump, nor for Hillary Clinton. I did not like the prospect of having to select ‘the least bad’ candidate. In my large family and even larger circle of friends, most have taken sides, yet we have been able to have a lot of fun discussing American politics without grabbing each other’s throats. Maybe like they say, old friendship and blood, especially, are thicker than politics after all.
The mere fact that this great nation has to make a hard decision to select the ‘least bad’ instead of welcoming the ‘better’ candidate is not something that many American could feel proud of. But then, one can only deal with the cards one has.
Bà Trương Thị Phượng chụp hình trước tòa nhà của khoa quản trị kinh doanh. (Hình: Kristy Trịnh cung cấp)
