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Thanks to the American people for nominating Hillary Clinton

It is now very clear that the electoral battle for the office of the president of the United States of America is going to be between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. The formers have been nominated as a candidate by the Democratic Party and the later by the Republican Party. The former is a woman and in fact so significant she is the first one in American history to socialize politically up to this level. This is the first social and political score the people of American have achieved on behalf of humanity; giving chance to a woman to rule America .If at all the people of America will accept to share consciousness with the entire world to appreciate this as a virtue, then human efforts towards engendered political socialization will soon be enjoying a global- class dawn. This is why I personally felicitate and salute the American people for allowing Hillary Clinton to step in just after a very serious political exercise that shouted social inclusivity to the world by having Barrack Obama, an African to be the president of America. All this sentiments come from one political sentimentality; American politics is politics of every living human being.

It is in fact a challenge to the people of America that social duty of engendering politics was, has been and still is long overdue. Militancy and Masculinity have been a bane of American political culture. It is now time for soft power. It is a virtue already accepted by other political civilizations without regret. Germany has had Merkel, United Kingdom is now having May and the African Union is now having Zuma, all these are women on top and sensitive political positions doing their work and we don’t expect regrets. It has to be realized that a political psychology in form of a notion that the United States of America is usually involved in the military activities across the world and hence a woman cannot rule it effectively is an outdated way of looking at politics. It is not gender and sex that cherish decisions, it is usually a personality. History of politics can easily nourish this premise from its repertoire of the recent experiences in world politics that it was Benazir Bhutto that introduced the concept of Islamic Nuclear bomb to world politics, Indira Gandhi was the iron lady of the East, Alice Lakwena, Alice Ilineshi and Chelagat Mutai are the cruelest rebels that east African politics has ever seen, reason; personalities not gender, fact.

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