The Joker Has Taken Gotham

It's not even my country. He's not even my President.
And yet, why do I seem to be exasperated with the thought that America is not going to be the same again. Something is amiss. Perhaps, many a thing.

From the understanding of a child about a massive continent nation, to the learnings of a youth about world powers, until the realization of a sensible adult about the cultural intricacies of the first world nation - 'America' has been there in the passive consciousness. But, somehow the feeling about the country has always been it's a better world with better people with a better conscience.

And then, Donald Trump happened to the US of A. The squirm-faced, orange-haired man's antiques as a businessman, reality TV personality, or even as a politician stretching up to his declaration of candidacy for president, wouldn't have bothered me, if he had not become the POTUS. And the man is the apparent successor of Barrack Obama, who is almost a legend in terms of leadership in the world of politics .

A man, who being questioned upon his forceful attempt to have sex with a married woman, said "when you're a star, they let you do it."
A man, who mimicked a disabled reporter at a campaign rally and commented about a child inside an escalator that he would be dating her in ten years.
A man, who thinks it's "smart" to not pay federal income taxes and thinks it's logical to propose a ban on Muslims from entering the United States.
A man, who generalized Mexicans as "rapists" and "drug dealers" and claimed that a Supreme Court judge’s Mexican heritage made him unable to be fair in a case.
A man, who used Twitter as a weapon, firing off insults and mockery towards "Crooked Hillary" and Republican rivals "Little Marco" Rubio, Jeb "Low Energy" Bush and "Lyin' Ted" Cruz.
A man, who is such empty a vessel that it not just sounds much, it sounds nasty, irritating and sickening. And, that man is the Donald, who Trumped the U.S. Presidential election.

Only time will tell whether the new President-elect can dump his baggage of scandals and reform himself, before he brings reforms to the country to nurture the big American Dream -- for Americans and for the rest of the world.

"Please never stop believing that fighting for what’s right is worth it. We need you to keep up these fights now and for the rest of your lives,” said Hillary Clinton and time waited to see if Trump would live up to his campaign claim and actually seek to "lock up" his opponent for her controversial practice of using a private e-mail server for much of her official State Department correspondence or other crimes.

Until then, sitting in a faraway land and in a country, which is itself mired in governance changes and demographic shifts, I'll stay happy with the feeling that I had a chance to be in America -- know its people, up, close and personal, when it was not ruled by a Drumpf!