I'm curious to hear Hindu-American perspectives on the upcoming November election. I think many of us have been dismayed and angered by the callous attitude demonstrated by the #Democrats on #Kashmir, CAA, Modi, and Hindus in general. It seems as if they take our votes for granted and expect us to fall in line as brown immigrants and the descendants of brown immigrants. What are your thoughts?
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Good to see many Hindus in America waking up to the reality of Democrats being anti-India and anti-Hindu.
There are a couple of important points to ponder upon:
Being anti-India is essentially being anti-Hindu; the two are not separable. This is a more philosophical point but for the sake of conversation, you can be sure that if someone is virulently anti-Indian, they are almost always anti-Hindu as well. In fact, the former stems from the latter if you really think about it.
The Democrats, although pro-immigrant, have been anti-India for a long time. The Republicans were also anti-Indian (Nixon/Kissinger) but have slowly started to realize that India is a better ally than China or Russia; although America's policies still don't support this point (since billions of dollars of aid is still given to rogue nations like Pakistan).
It is interesting to note that in 1992, when the USSR collapsed and Russia was in dire need of aid, the US Congress passed a bill to support them. At the same time, India had negotiated technology transfer (of cryogenic engines to be exact to kick start its indigenous space program via ISRO) with the USSR/Russia. When the US Congress was about to vote on the Russia aid bill, it was a special someone who added a line-item in the bill stating that this aid (from the US to Russia) was contingent on Russia NOT transferring cryogenic technology to India! That special someone was Joe Biden! This was enforced by the then newly elected president Bill Clinton (doh!) and the Russian puppet Boris Yeltsin who instead sold (complete) cryogenic engines to India instead of transferring the technology as was previously agreed upon!
India developed the cryogenic technology from scratch and launched the GSLV. However, India's cryogenic program was delayed by almost 20 years due to the subterfuge and nastiness of the USA, especially the US Democrats and in particular, Joe Biden and the Clintons.
To summarize for Hindus in America, the USA has always been anti-India (because they are anti-Hindu). It is in our best interest to manage both sides of the political spectrum tactfully (as the Israelis do vis-a-vis Jews) to benefit India and consequently, Hindus in the long run.