Bush, Blair and BJP

What is common between the three Bs or Bush, Blair and BJP? The three, in fact, represent a dangerous negative thinking about the “other”. They need an enemy to hate and thrash to prove that they also exist. Moreover, they do not have any positive achievement that they could be proud of. The purpose of their life is to think negatively about the enemies whom they have created for themselves.

Bush wants an America that must dominate the world. Had he a positive thinking, he would have desired an America that will excell in all walks of life. But, blinded by his negative thinking, he has developed the fallacious philosophy of American supremacy which, he feels, is good for the world. Misguided by this false philosophy, he always thinks and also desires that the world must accept American supremacy. Anyone who opposes American perceptions or their worldview is surely an enemy who must be thrashed and defeated.

It is Bush’s erroneous philosophy that compels him to divide the world in two blocks of “us” and “them”. The world for him is either black or white and he wants that the entire world must share his narrow vision. You have to be either with him or against him as he has no regard for neutrality.

The biggest problem with Bush is that he thinks that the neutral is as great an enemy as the one who is vehemently opposed to him. Therefore he treats both the neutral and the enemy on equal footing and wants to eliminate them by using military force. Bush’s negative thinking further compels him to work for the elimination of all those who dare to compete with the US. For him the American supremacy is sacrosanct and no country has the right to challenge it. And if someone commits the folly of challenging or competing with the US, he must prepare himself for what has been done to Iraq and Afghanistan. In plain words the Bush doctrine demands the world to be inferior to the US, and if any one dares to go the other way, he must be ready to face the consequences. He would be first “persuaded”, then sanctioned against and finally beaten into submission. Saddam Hussein is the living example of what Bush would like to do to all of his enemies.

Blair does not deserve a better description than being an alter ego of Bush in Britain. The problem with the British elite whom Blair represents is that they have not reconciled with the loss of empire that they had over fifty years ago. A feeling to rule over the world still lingers somewhere in their mind. Obviously such a thinking is destined to fail miserably specially in the awakened world we are living in. Like the old-fashioned imperialism the so-called neo-imperialism will also disappear sooner than later. But Bush and Blair are not ready to accept this natural course of things. With the military firepower they have at their command, they feel that they can fashion a world of their own liking, a world that will submit to their imperialistic design. In their scheme of things no country outside their alliance should dare to raise its head, and if any one “commits the folly” of defying them, he would be thrashed and defeated.

What Bush and Blair are doing at international level, the BJP is trying to accomplish at national level in India. They, too, have a negative thinking and have created a “Muslim enemy” whose appeasement they can not tolerate. India is plagued with lots of problems from poverty to illiteracy but such issues never bother the BJP as its sole agenda is to establish and maintain the upper caste supremacy. Nursing any such idea or implementing any such scheme in the awakened India we are living in is surely impossible. There was a time when the upper caste dominated the Indian political scene. But see how things have changed in recent years. People acquainted with the philosophy of social change know for sure that the upper caste’s domination in such fields as media and economy will also disappear in the course of time. This, in fact, is the natural course of things. But the BJP would not accept it and would indulge in activities, including mindless violence against the Muslims, which are born out of their negative thinking.

What Bush, Blair and BJP must realize is that the world we are living in, specially the third world, does not believe in domination and the resultant violence. The overwhelming majority of youth specially has developed a positive thinking. The common belief is that the world has enough opportunities or more and more opportunities can be created which all sections of the society should capitalize upon for their genuine welfare. The majority also thinks that the ones left behind in the race of life should not be ignored but they deserve to be taken care of. In such an environment of opportunity and hope no negative thinking has a chance to prosper, flourish or succeed. But Bush, Blair and BJP do not seem to be learning their lessons. They, therefore, must get ready to be consigned to the dustbin of history.

[June, 2006]