Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton dwarf the two like colossuses do the midgets. All eyes, American and non-American, voters and nonvoters will be on Trump and Clinton. Why? Whether one likes either of them or not, once elected to the American Presidency ,any of them is bound to impact on ones life whether one likes it, hates it, knows it, is ignorant of it; whoever is to be the American President, will touch on ones life willy-nilly, directly or indirectly!
You wonder why and how. Well, you may be Motswana, your country independent for over 50 years; if the President of the USA tells your President (whoever he/she is) ‘jump!’ expect your President not to ask any question except: ‘how high?’ You see, America rules the world and the so-called Presidents or heads of state, are her satellites or proxies. The few who assert independence are invaded, blockaded, sanctioned or brainwashed through propaganda - electronic or print media or school. Ask Vietnam, Lumumba’s Congo, Panama, Cuba, Russia, Iran, Libya, Iraq, the lot, what happens to recalcitrant leaders who try to challenge or duck the American hegemony! America wasn’t always the America we know today; though ‘discovered’ by Christopher Columbus, she existed long before this ‘discovery’ and was a land occupied by the Chirokee Indians whose last chief was Big Foot. The colonists running away from the oppressive rule of their British king, arrived, slaughtered the Indians and colonised the survivors of the ‘discovered’ land, ruled them with an unwonted savagery imaginable in the history of mankind. The vast land they now occupied and owned was huge, fertile, with enormous potential for cultivation and development. Since they were arrogant, lazy, adventurous they raided Africa for unpaid slave labour. Africans were transported across the Atlantic bound in leg-irons to be sold by auction at slave marts. Child was wrenched from parent and husband from wife to farmer (plantation) and housewife to the highest bidder! Slave labour became the foundation and source of American wealth, more than the entrepreneurship and the pioneering spirit of immigrants flaunted glibly.
