Why did anti-immigration, Christian zealot Charlie Kirk die? Kash Patel led FBI has shut down further investigation into the possibility of conspiracy in this assassination of America’s foremost, Christian right-wing American influencer. A lone, “disaffected gunman theory” holds sway for the prosecution. Just as it did for past public leaders and influencers like JFK, Martin Luther King Jr, etc.
Meanwhile, Kirk’s widow considers JD Vance a lot like Charlie, or most like Charlie, I forget which. I don’t give a grain of sand for the whole sordid affair, or to conspiracy theories about Israel having a hand in Charlie Kirk’s death. Even if true, these are failures of Western nations’ governance, or internal security, or socio-political dysphoria.
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It simply doesn’t trigger me enough as I have watched and experienced their steady decline as coherent societies, over three decades of personal engagement with Western civilization, via The United Kingdom.
My sole, laser focused concern is whether the usually placid, almost pusillanimous Indian Americans will wake up. Whether they will wake up to how MAGA, represented by Trump and Vance politically and the likes of Laura Loomer and Steve Bannon ideologically, is a movement that echoes views towards Hindus in America, as Hitler’s Nazis did towards Holocaust victims.
Under Trump, America is definitely sliding away from both classical liberalism (as opposed to third rate, woke, post-Marxist rubbish) and market capitalism based democratic ideals. Successful minorities such as Indian Americans are most at risk.
It’s already too late. I carry deep scepticism about any waking up of Indian Americans. Whatever be the volume of various American Hindu Association’s protest at Vance’s public humiliation of his wife, or the cringeworthy public fawning of Vance and Charlie Kirk’s widow over each other.
The Mask of Secularism is Off in USA after Charlie Kirk assassination
The mailed fist of bigotry is shorn of velvet. The secular mask is fully off in the US of A.
The United States of America is now a hard right, Christian state in all but name and will brook no religion other than Christianity, while grinning and casting a Nelson’s eye temporarily, only on other Abrahamic faiths. Jews in America have forgotten the origins of Kristallnacht and are lulled with talk about socio-culturally ridiculous narrative of a Judeo-Christian civilization. Islamists in America remain protected by unity and the power of West Asian Sovereign Wealth funds.
Why? Why should WASPs and Vatican followers indulge the latter? Because Petro Dollars are great and Israeli tech works.
This is a hard reality. It’s not about liking or disliking that reality but accepting it as an operative parameter. Then comes the difficult part. Behaving accordingly as a salient collective.
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Do Hindus, Buddhists, Jains, Sikhs have any place in this brave new America? Yep. The people of the most ancient Eastern faiths are the principal architects of US information technology, healthcare, pharmacology, chemistry, aerospace and defence.
Their place is secure as long as they meekly serve the cause of Anglo-Catholic, principally white Christian America, in this strange new place MAGA has wrought. A section of Jews (such as Mark Zuckerberg, the non-practising Larry Ellison and MAGA ideologue Laura Loomer) also call the shots and elites among Indians (such as Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella or Ajay Banga) or Chinese (such as Jensen Huang) are co-opted and subservient. They don’t realise how they too are actually not real members of this table.
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It’s time to realise the true currency of that intellectual prowess and pull back or deny services of one’s intellect, instead of seeking the safety of Fiat currency pay-check under yoke to bigoted front faces of past European stock, who take most of the credit.
It’s up to politicians in China, Japan, India etc to ensure this by creating conditions in which Asia’s excellent, STEM linked people resources thrive. Japan needs to re-energize its mission and shake off post WW2 American vassalhood, subtly, if not overtly yet. China IS doing it diligently. India MUST catch up.
Money isn’t an issue anymore in India. Corporate myopia and Government apathy or half-hearted attempts are.
About the Author: Shamik Moitra is a seasoned Private Equity Professional. Moitra has multi-decadal experience in investing across several industrial domains. He holds a master’s in finance from the London Business School and is a Bachelor with Honours in Physics. He is also a keen observer of Military History, Geopolitical and Strategic Affairs.
