In her opening remarks in her current speech earlier than the UN Common Meeting, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley stated the world of countries wants “a reset and we have to reset.” These are very profound phrases, because the world appears more and more to be going off its tracks and needing to be reset. Prime Minister Mottley’s phrases are additionally very related to the US which is in determined want of a reset because it faces a particularly essential presidential election.
After all, individuals who come from respective Caribbean international locations to reside within the USA are immigrants coming to get pleasure from and expertise the so-called American Dream, not in contrast to the Biblical Israelites who left Egypt to reside within the “Promised Land.”
The American Dream consists of a land of political tolerance, in contrast to a few of the political tribal lands folks had been leaving. The dream additionally features a land of racial concord and equal alternative the place one can enhance their instructional commonplace, discover rewarding profession and job alternatives, reasonably priced and cozy housing, safe, violent-free communities, entry to good and reasonably priced healthcare, and monetary safety in retirement. And, most likely most significantly. real looking hope for his or her kids and grandchildren.
For Caribbean nationals who migrated to the US from the late ’60s, all through the ’70s to the early 2000s, this Dream might have been real looking in most cases, however because the years progressed within the twenty first century, the dream has been turning right into a nightmare. More and more it appears America is shedding its manner, veering badly off its unique tracks, and is badly in want of a reset and to be reset.
One of many main causes of America’s seeming derailment is the absence of a frontrunner, a president with the flexibility and energy to unite a woefully divided nation. America has turn into a nation of two ferocious, warring tribes, in contrast to the previous nation of two outstanding political events which used acceptable democratic processes each 4 years for the precise to manipulate the nation.
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November 5, the date of the 2024 presidential election is quickly approaching. Because it approaches will probably be bombarded with flowery marketing campaign rhetoric, commercial, slogans, and the various bells and whistles historically used to steer voters to vote for one presidential candidate over the opposite. Every candidate is being positioned to have the ability to enhance the lives of Americans if she or he is elected.
However, as a rising, aspiring group Caribbean People ought to apply utmost objectivity in making the choice about which presidential candidate they plan to vote for and never be merely influenced by the standard marketing campaign hype and noise.
America is desperately in want of a reset, and voters should rigorously assess which of the 2 candidates can finest lead and attain such a reset.
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Which candidate is finest to understand and respect immigrant communities, and the contribution these communities are making to America’s improvement? Which candidate is finest appropriate to determine a practical, simply system to create a transition for undocumented immigrants to documented standing, and which is ready to safe the American borders from unlawful immigrants who pose a menace to the home safety of American communities?
Which candidate will have the ability to reset the American financial system to make sure a sound basis is maintained; improved and equal alternatives are open for employment through which employees can earn residing wages; the place costs of meals, shelter, and childcare are carefully monitored so they’re reasonably priced; and an financial system through which residents irrespective of sophistication pay their fair proportion of taxes.
Which candidate appears finest in a position to reset America’s healthcare system making certain People, irrespective of sophistication and race, have entry to competent, reasonably priced healthcare?
Which of the candidates reveals the flexibility to enhance security and safety in American communities, quell felony exercise and gun violence, and affect the implementation of smart gun legal guidelines so American kids can attend faculties, and residents can store, worship, and search to be entertained, freed from the worry and danger of gun violence.
Which candidate can reset America’s management and respect in world affairs and be the mediator in world disputes assuring international conflicts are settled diplomatically, and army interventions averted?
Most significantly, which candidate is prone to have the flexibility to reset America to be the united nation the founding fathers envisaged? Which chief can bridge the damaging, yawning political and racial divide and encourage the US Congress and different chambers of nationwide and native governments to work in a bipartisan method for the final good?
The approaching presidential election is critically essential. It provides a singular alternative for voters to right the very harmful path America has been taking. America badly must reset.
To reiterate, America wants sturdy management. America wants management with sound character, in a position to implement a nationwide reset. Voters have superior energy to pick out the precise chief. No voter ought to take this energy flippantly, however must assume very rigorously earlier than voting, to ensure they vote for this reset.
