I’m from a family of doctors & engineers. My training under my Govt. officer father’s eye was of a sternly simple life. He was determined that I should not be an exception in the family. And with the help of Almighty I didn’t grow up as an exception. In fact, If I divide life into two parts: “End of the Beginning” and “Beginning of the End”, I’m quite proud for a happy ending of the Beginning by pursuing a Bachelor in Computer Science.
But the story of the second part “Beginning of the End” is quite different. My whole family is settled in USA & I’m also in the pipeline for immigration. But may be the story of my life could be different if I could arrange that hefty amount of money I was asked by a broker to bring to the residence of a PSC (Public Service Commission) member. Thus, a terrible family crisis precipitated with rapidity. At one side, there was not only my strong desire to join cadre service at any cost prompted by the sorrow stories of my BCS (Bangladesh Civil Service) failed brilliant friends living abroad but also my dissatisfaction over private jobs.
On the other hand, all my conservative family members from the USA was against my need to bribe, ridiculed me for being so dumb … saying you wont need to stay in a country where no one is safe and there isn’t any opportunity to explore your true energy, creativity & potentiality …Even now a days the life of an honest govt. official is not safe like our fathers time, cause if you don’t have link with political party high ups you could jeopardize your career and secured personal life. Despite all their heartbreaking teasing, I really wanted a simple living like the hero of my life “My Father” albeit he was single-minded that I should not be a black ship in his family.
Still now after years whenever I think of those crucial hours of my life, I just find myself in a mad rage over that PSC(Public Service Commission) official’s demand, feel so bad about the fighting with all my family members, relatives …begging money to my poor colleagues. Good thing is, now I want to assure them that I’ve totally got those stupid thoughts, angers out of me and I beg apology to them for all those misconducts.
Indeed all together that was a bitter lesson – the bitterest I think so far that really is playing a great role in the second part of my life “Beginning of the End”.
How time flies… All my childhood dreams crushed into real life. … …practicing life in the hardest way…very little energy left for pleasurable family life, friends after looking at all the horrific happenings around me.. this is what life is all about right now in Bangladesh.
Being at the brutal “Beginning of the End” of life is the hardest thing on earth at this moment. However, looking at the political turmoil during the last few months, questions arouse in my mind: does democracy exist in this country? Is it why my father fought for this country, though he didn’t care for a freedom fighter certificate?
In fact the way I see it, after all this episode of political game is over,
BNP (Bangladesh Nationalist Party) or AL (Awami League) whoever is chosen by this ever forgetting/ forgiving nation with mountain of thunderous promises, they will blatant selfishly only uphold and safeguard the interest of their electors by shamelessly ignoring the actuality and will be more concerned about taking bigger bribes and come out with more safety measures to steal even bigger objects.
Same thing is occurring in this part of the world for centuries. Sometimes I wonder, Is it true that the present political situation arouses out of our forefathers mistakes, made one after another without foreseeing the upcoming blow?
Right now the nation is fighting an uphill battle against corruption. In our 36- years history, this is the first time we are seeing such a large number of rich, powerful and untouchable people behind bars. All these are taking place under a caretaker government whose legitimacy is overwhelmingly accepted but credibility is still untested. Time will say whether to congratulate them for their unprecedented, bold and historical move against the corrupt leaders. The people of Bangladesh will remember this CG (Caretaker Government) for a long time if they could wipe out corruptions from every sector of the society by bringing all the criminals behind the bars ensuring justice is done and sending the traditional family oriented political practice into museum who were using Bangladesh as their private business ground ignoring the normal citizens hassle.
Of course they can’t invent any instant remedy to restore decaying social mores of decades prompted by those in the highest seats of power in the country as they repeatedly rewarded widespread fraud over truthful warden ship, commode incompetence over professional competence, personal or party fidelity over merit and all other associates that fly in the face of unfair demeanor, meritocracy and rule of law. We have to give this CG (Caretaker Government) enough time to bring qualitative change in the political culture of the country as a whole so that democracy here starts to learn how and why they should elect the best man to public offices who will set the radar of the country towards the right direction without any fear.
I want to see alternative leaderships in the Bangladesh as all of the ex-ruling parties are seriously suffering from intelligibility, sincerity, answerability, inequity, intra-party democracy….(it wont finish). It’s our pride that despite the mountain of burdens, literacy rate is doubled over the last 35 years. Surely the days of politics with left or right, underworld or family-world are shrinking when I see Dr. Yunus (Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, 2006) accompanied with different mindset people entering politics. I know they can’t change everything overnight. But definitely they are only hope left for us who can show us the silver lining after the blood baths for the ast 36 years. I’m wishing the best of luck to all the bold efforts taken so far. Definitely someday these will crate better opportunities for happy beginning or ending of every life and bring the best out of this hardworking nation.
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If it is democratic, then why has it got such a low voter turnout? If people are conservative then they will vote. Sure, roughly half of those who vote usually vote republican, but remember over half of those eligible to vote do not vote, because they know their lives will see no change. This is well understood by the rest of the rest of the world.1
For example one of the most democratic countries in the world, Bolivia, has a huge voter turnout every time.
Yeah I heard that about Coca Cola before, but even worse than that I’m now reading “Nazi Nexus: Americas Corporate Connections to Hitlers Holocaust” – Edwin Black, on how IBM organized the holocaust, GM helped Germanys ecnomy boom and therefore helped Hitler get into power, and the Nazis got their racist eugenics ideas from American scientists funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. And Henry Ford inspired Hitler with anti-semitic propaganda in his “Dearborn Independent” newspaper. Whew!
Noam Chomsky and is wrong
The US is a democracy and not a one-party state, the very fact that it has developed into a democratic two-party state forces the two parties to be less radical and more centrist on issues so they capture more votes, which makes for a more stable political system, and this centrist tendency is not the result of elites controlling politics its because roughly half the US population really is conservative and dont want the radical liberal changes Chomsky says they want
That is very true, your journey has just begone good luck and watch out for the BS. If it doesn’t seem possible it probably isn’t.
Peace.
Yeah, many American business worked with the Nazis. Coca-Cola invented Fantia so the Germans would still drink American pop during the War. Orwell wasn’t so much a prophet as he was an historian.
America is a backward country.
Grampa Prescott Bush owned factories in Nazi Germany during the War. When the US bombed his factory, he tried suing. He was almost tried as a symathizer but it was tossed on a technicality. Just google “Prescott Bush and Nazis”
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Because Jews own the banks banks control the money.
Who's the moron who said there is a large Jewish population in the US, less than 5% of this nation identify themselves as Jewish. There are more Filipinos in this nation than Jews why don't we pander to the Filipino vote
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In politics, a chief of staff is the primary aide to a political leader or position.
The White House Chief of Staff is the highest-ranking member of the Executive Office of the President of the United States and a senior aide to the President.
The duties of the White House Chief of Staff vary greatly from one administration to another. However, he/she is responsible for overseeing the actions of the White House staff, managing the President's schedule, and deciding who is allowed to meet with the President. Because of these duties, the Chief of Staff has at various times been dubbed "The Gatekeeper" and "The co-President".
Any country is passing from democracy to comunism. Socialist presidents are beeing elected but any of them is ending with democracy. Chávez was reelected president of Venezuela in a world-wide recognized election. Including the United States recognized the Venezuelan election as beeing democratic. And is too soon to say that Latin America is turning to socialism, those leaders were elected only a few years ago, many presidents in Latin America are still right-wing. 10 years ago almost all presidents of Latin America were from the right-wing. Things change, today is the socialist wave, tomorrow may be another wave. And the US don't has the moral right to care about Latin America, why do you care so much with us? Leave us alone. Anti-Americanism is the main fuel of leftism in Latin America.
The Republicans are the conservatives. The Democrats are the liberals. Actually about 40% of the electorate here considers themselves Independent and these are the voters who will decide the election. Some states do not require you to declare a party affiliation. In those states all registered voters can vote for any candidate of either party. Some states have "closed primaries" which means you must be a registered Republican or Democrat and you can only vote for the slate of candidates in the party of your registry. The "closed primary" states have this rule supposedly because some voters of another party would deliberately try to get a weak candidate of another party to win the primary.
Because the vast majority of Yahoo answers participants are American. When there aren't enough questions about foreign politics, more American politics questions appear.
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