The year 2024 is no doubt a dramatic year in many ways. For the USA, a national election resulted in a come-back for Trump, not by a narrow margin. It was a landslide regarding electoral counts as well as popular votes with an easy majority in the Senate but only a narrow majority in the House. Still overwhelming. More importantly, mega-star in the tech world, Elon Musk, joined Trump’s politics. The year 2025 will be a year to watch.
Looks like there will be a lot of policy changes. Why not if they will make the USA a better place for all of us? As an ordinary citizen, what I expect from the new administration after January 20 are:
• Revisit the use of guns in the country. Please reshape gun laws, so that guns aren’t in the hands of teenagers or mentally handicapped people. Innocent people shouldn’t die for no reason; obviously no mass killing out of gun-shooting.
• The USA is a country of immigrants from all over the world. There shouldn’t be any discrimination towards anyone. We do enjoy living in this great country at the expense of our hard work.
• I understand there are many illegal humans in the USA. As a human, everyone wants to live with a minimum requirement of food, clothes and a place to sleep. For years people from the third world have been trying to enter the USA to fulfill their aspirations. Please make a non-biased policy and behave humanely in deporting them.
• War was never a solution to conflicts in the past. It is still not a solution for both Russia and Ukraine. The war in the Middle East will not offer peace for Israel even after killing thousands of innocent people of Gaza. The new administration should work for world peace.
• Recent trends show the rising of hard conservative governments in many countries such as the EU countries – Italy, Finland, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland and in others gaining slowly. Obviously, the USA will soon officially become the leader in this trend. However, we would like to see freedom of speech, religious freedom, racial freedom remain untouched.
• In addition, the rationality of science should not be ignored. Climate change is not to be considered a hoax.
• Diversity is the beauty of nature. Let it flow unhindered.
• Health is the backbone of human progress. Make America healthy through proven research. Vaccination programs for any disease should continue unabated.
• There should be a program to eradicate homelessness from the big cities in the USA.
• Before dismantling any public welfare programs of the previous government, they should be thoroughly checked for their pros and cons.
Every four or eight years the U.S. government changes between Democrat and Republican with a new president. However, the return of a former president after four years is not that common in the USA. It may be the second time it has happened. Thus, I am expecting the best from President Trump, who survived two assassination attempts.
Jiben Roy, a native of Bangladesh, teaches chemistry and pharmaceutical sciences at Mississippi University for Women. He writes occasional column in the Dispatch. His email address is [email protected].
Jiben Roy, a native of Bangladesh, teaches chemistry and pharmaceutical sciences at Mississippi University for Women. His email address is [email protected].
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