American Problems

Presidential debates in the US between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump may seem to be getting personal in terms of arguments and accusations. But the bottom line is the American issue. Issues that engulf the Americans in their day to day life. These are about American aspirations. It is an open secret that Republican politics in the US is dependent on corporate support and evangelical influence. Business groups are supportive of Trump’s policies to increase tariffs and taxes to streamline the economy. On the other hand Harris is determined to downsize the influence of the corporates .She is expressing her arguments in terms of tax break to the Americans. This is the political climate that is being created in the US elections by the presidential candidates to drive home their points. Another problem that has engulfed the Americans is the ageing population. The saturation in the skilled and semi-skilled human resource has led the American society to look for alternatives to keep their day to day life moving. The skilled workers challenge has caught the American consciousness during the COVID-19.This is an issue of acute labour shortage. And in such a situation Trump has been stressing on the America first policy meant to further shrink the non-American base. Now the moot point is that there is an acute shortage of workers leading to a skilled human resource gap creating big problems to keep the American economy thriving. American policy makers and most importantly the candidates who intend to occupy the White House must internalise that it will be the immigrant skilled and semi-skilled manpower that will address the labour market gap. So the American Presidential Election this time is being contested on the issue of impact on the American economy. It may appear to be a war for shunting out the immigrants but the undercurrent is somewhere else. The American economy is trying to look out for new anchors to stabilise its market position. In the previous decades after the cold war America has been in the withdrawal mode from the wars where it was entrenched. In order to retreat it had to fight more vigorously to withdraw. Afghanistan is the case in point. America is perhaps the only nation in the contemporary era that has not fought wars on its lands but on the foreign lands. It has indeed had an impact. It has paid its price to remain a superpower. Now the US is in withdrawal mode. It wants to reinvent itself by pulling back. The world order is changing and so is America. It has to reshape its position in the comity of nations. International markets and the global economy is witnessing an emergence of a new world order. Why to go far away, China is indulging in repeated stratagems to outwit India in terms of economic resurgence. But it has failed to do so as India has started countering Chinese imperialism with friendly extension by increasing the Indian sphere of influence to counter the Chinese policy of strangulating India in the Himalayas and the Indian Ocean Region (IOR).World can’t afford to be confined to a powerful few. Multilateralism is catching the global imagination in geo-politics and its is working to make a better place.US and its policy makers must embrace this and come out of the super power mode. It is an age multipolarity meant for harmonious world order.