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Divided state: On the U.S., a fractured polity

The U.S. needs a new enlightened (ज्ञान देना) leadership in the two major parties

The shooting of Charlie Kirk, a controversial, outspoken conservative commentator and political ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, has revealed, once again, the depth of polarisation of opinion in the country and its disturbing proclivity (प्रवृत्ति) towards using lethal (जानलेवा) violence to settle debates. Ironically, Kirk was a vocal advocate of the Second Amendment right to bear arms, even as he espoused (समर्थन करना) a range of right-wing values at liberal university campuses, and in curbing abortion rights, and limiting the rights of transgender and LGBTQ persons — all the while recruiting young voters to the Republican cause. The man arrested on suspicion of shooting him, Tyler Robinson, is said to have diverged from his own conservative family roots although few specifics or possible motives are established so far. This much is clear: years of political vitriol (Cruel and bitter criticism. (Also, an archaic term for sulfuric acid)) backed by policies built on the values of nativism (मूल-निवासी पक्षधरता), revisionism, exclusion, religiosity, and a hateful intolerance of social and ideological diversity have brought the shutters down on any channels for open-minded dialogue and bipartisanship that might have existed earlier.

The U.S. is at a crossroads in terms of its standing as a moral and economic force espousing, respectively, for the merits of democracy and capitalism. Given the crackdown on and deportations (निर्वासन) of students, academics and residents protesting atrocities in Gaza, and the cruel family separations resulting from immigration raids, there are many who would doubt the claim that the U.S. remains the bedrock of substantive democracy. Economically, the rules-based international order that emerged through the years of the Washington Consensus stands in a shambles (To move with a slow, shuffling, awkward gait) in some regards, with Mr. Trump’s tariff policy that fuelled a worldwide trade war bringing global supply chains to their knees. Nowhere is the impact of these tectonic shifts in the U.S.’s ideological and policy posture more keenly felt than on its own soil, with Democrats on the retreat after two Trump terms, and Republicans embracing (गले लगाना, अपनाना) their President’s political agenda, which is only an amorphous (निराकार) version of the classic conservatism that many of them adhere (चिपके रहना) to. When conversations across the aisle fall silent, fear looms large, especially for minorities pushed to the fringes of the political discourse (बातचीत), and the desperate on all sides fall back on toxic gun culture to give vent to their frustrations with the status quo. Given that numerous past Presidents have tried and failed to start conversations on common sense gun control reform, including no fewer than 17 attempts by Barack Obama to introduce such legislation in Congress, it is only the emergence of a new, enlightened leadership in both parties that could hold out hope for a less fractured and hateful polity in the post-Trump years.

Courtesy: The Hindu

Important Word List With Meaning

1.Lethal (Adjective)

Hindi Meaning – जानलेवा
English Meaning – Sufficient to cause death.

2.Enlighten (Verb)

Hindi Meaning – ज्ञान देना
English Meaning – To give (someone) greater knowledge and understanding about a subject or situation.

3.Proclivity (Noun)

Hindi Meaning – प्रवृत्ति
English Meaning – A tendency to choose or do something regularly; an inclination or predisposition.

4.Espouse (Verb)

Hindi Meaning – समर्थन करना
English Meaning – To adopt or support (a cause, belief, or way of life).

5.Nativism (Noun)

Hindi Meaning – मूल-निवासी पक्षधरता
English Meaning – The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.

6.Deportation (Noun)

Hindi Meaning – निर्वासन
English Meaning – The action of expelling a foreigner from a country.

7.Embrace (Verb)

Hindi Meaning – गले लगाना, अपनाना
English Meaning – To hold someone closely in one's arms; to accept or support (a belief, theory, or change) willingly and enthusiastically.

8.Adhere (Verb)

Hindi Meaning – चिपके रहना
English Meaning – To stick firmly to (a surface or substance); to believe in and follow the practices of.

9.Discourse (Noun)

Hindi Meaning – बातचीत
English Meaning – Written or spoken communication or debate.

10.Amorphous (Adjective)

Hindi Meaning – निराकार
English Meaning – Without a clearly defined shape or form.

11.Vitriol (Noun)

English Meaning – Cruel and bitter criticism. (Also, an archaic term for sulfuric acid).

12.Shamble (Verb)

English Meaning – To move with a slow, shuffling, awkward gait.