Nothing can be more frustrating than having to tolerate the open dishonesty, shameless depravity, blatant delinquency and unashamed debauchery of a president for months after months. The never-ending perfidy of the man you voted to power – hoping to see good governance – pains you in the heart beyond grasp. The feeling is like something solid is stuck in your throat – you neither can swallow nor throw it out. You wonder aloud when will this phantom disappear, the rule of the jungle will end, and you will see sanity, decency and rule of law return to your country.
But, instead, you find the delinquent man, often termed evil by your own countrymen, coming up with one wicked act after another to embarrass the nation. He has veritably made himself a laughing stock before the world. And the saner people of the world wonder aloud why the people of the great country do not throw him into the sea.
History tells us when Caligula let loose a trail of mayhem throughout Rome, the people finally got rid of him in the most cruel manner. Good riddance to bad rubbish – the proverb was created to describe such toxic people. Some analysts are comparing your megalomaniac president with Hitler. Renowned psychologists of your country diagnose him as someone having cognitive glitches and that is not good at all when you have your fingers on the nuclear button. Disaster may happen any time. And the whole world is on tenterhooks when in a state of rage or mental lapse your president may push the button.
We understand how betrayed and diminutive you feel when your president uses four-letter words and profane expletives on TV and you rush to switch the set of lest your young sons and daughters hear those blasphemous uttering. You had explained to them how great the president was and why you were going to cast your vote in his favor for the second time. You are now hurt deep within. You feel small and humiliated when the people call your president a pathological liar, a war-monger and psychologically unstable.
You surely do not want to hear others calling your president a genocidal lunatic and a pedophile (there is plenty of evidence to try him in a court of law). You react in disbelief seeing some leaked photos of your president walking with an 8 to 9 year old girl in a secret island. You will shudder to think of your own daughter in that pedophile’s hand. Nothing can explain such dastardly immoral behavior. You wonder how his party members can keep him in power after all that. Aren’t they complicit in his crimes?
Your president talks of destroying a 5000-year old civilization knowing not the glorious history of that country and its people. Does he believe civilisations are built only with bricks and stone that can be destroyed with a few bombs? You are ashamed of the depth of knowledge of your president. In his ignorance of world history, he is almost on the verge of destroying the modern civilisaton. He has no idea that the modern civilisation was built through adoption and practice of scientific knowledge and not through warfare. Japan advanced in science and technology after discarding its armory after WWII. The great Chinese nation woke up from its drug-induced slumber and recurring poverty after WWII and devoted time and energy in nation building and not in destroying other nations. When we look at Germany we understand how a single man had almost destroyed a mighty nation on the false premise of racial supremacy. It also discarded weapons and took up tractors to build the Republic.
Frankly, in a knowledge-based society the rhetoric of war and destruction sound so hollow, sound so cheap, sound so ugly. Only illiterate and retarded men can talk like that. War mongers have no place in today’s world. No man in his right frame of mind can openly declare he will totally annihilate a country, a nation. This is tantamount to committing genocide.
To a devout Christian to be labeled an Antichrist is the ultimate insult. Just as a Muslim man would react if he is called a Kafir. Only the top leaders of religious organizations like the Vatican can call someone Antichrist. But many scholarly people today in your country are calling your president Antichrist. Reportedly some of his sycophants are comparing him with Jesus Christ! Should we call them psychophants?
“The Antichrist is a figure in Christian theology, specifically within eschatology, believed to be an enemy of Jesus Christ who will appear before the end of the world to deceive believers and oppose God. Often linked to the “beast” in Revelation or the “man of sin” (2 Thessalonians 2:3-4), this entity represents supreme evil, false teaching, and persecution, sometimes interpreted as a future political leader or a corrupting force.”
In the last few decades we have seen how brilliant academic records, scientific advancement, breakthroughs in the medicine world, milestones in sports, achievements in agriculture and business, are being destroyed by half literate, greedy, narcissistic, arrogant, short-sighted, insensitive politicians. From Africa to Asia, from West to the East, from North to the South, it’s the same story. War mongering politicians are making one excuse or another to wage wars for their personal benefit.
Everywhere, while others build they destroy. They create fictitious enemies, declare war against them and ask the people to sacrifice their lives for the country. They never send their own sons to the wars they create. They tell in many words the reasons why the economy is failing and how the opposition parties are responsible for this.
The people of your great country are languishing under the tyrannical rule of a delusional man who is erratic and deranged. And you wonder aloud when the person will disappear forever. You are at awe when the deranged man talks about his eligibility to get the Nobel Peace Prize! He claims he has stopped 6 to 7 wars and this time also saved the world. But you know the truth; he has done nothing worthwhile in reality! Nobel Prize and him!!
The writer is a consultant editor, Daily Times of Bangladesh
