" I live in a crazy time" ~Anne Frank~
Just three days to go, and Americans are bracing for the election of a lifetime. It's hard to believe that Donald J. Trump could be elected as the 47th President of the Unites States, but here we are.
I am not going to get into the litany of reasons why this man, a convicted felon, should never be seen anywhere near the White House again, I think that it is all well documented. (He should have been prosecuted and sitting in federal prison for what he did on January 6th.) Although, I must say, that he is adding to that list every day. The 1939 Nazi style convention in Madison Square Garden. The relentless attack on immigrants and people who are different. Openly bragging about his white skin, and mocking Kamala's ethnicity. Calling for the execution of Liz Cheney by firing squad, threatening mass deportations of people he doesn't think should be here. Finally, and most importantly, not one single policy position that will make your life or mine any better. Not one. Oh wait...yeah, tariffs.
I am not going to play pollster or prognosticator and dare try to guess the results on Tuesday. I'm bad at this stuff. I never thought that America would elect a black man with a funny name, and they did it. Twice. I never thought that someone like Donald Trump could be elected president, and he was. So I honestly don't know what to expect. My gut instinct tells me that America will never elevate a black woman to the highest office in the land. Heck, they wouldn't elect a white woman who was also more qualified for the position than Trump. The sexism is that strong. Throw race in the mix and you see where I am going. Most people who are voting for the felon will not be able to articulate a reason why. They will make all kinds of excuses for voting for him, and not one of them will make sense. They just know that Kamala is bad.
I give Trump credit, he figured it out. His us against them fear mongering campaign is working because Americans are afraid of change. The logic goes like this: Trump might be a terrible human being who plays on our worst instincts, but at least he looks like us. He can't be that bad. He will protect us from the brown scary people who are trying to take our country from us. There is nothing he can say or do that will change that thinking in the minds of fifty percent of the voters in America. That man he shot on 5th Avenue had it coming. When he says that he would like to be a dictator for life like his pals, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un, the Wall Street Journal declares that he does not have the attention span to carry out his agenda, and then endorses him. Republican politicians are on cable news shows every night translating what he meant when he literally said something else.
This collective form of cognitive dissonance has infected a majority of white Americans. Mr. Trump is hoping that it will be enough to place him in the most powerful position on earth once again. He will be free to carry out project 2025, and play dictator while the sycophants around him feed his ego. Republicans will most likely control both houses, and the majority of the Supreme Court is made up of obsequious hand-picked loyalist who have abandoned the rule of law for political reasons.
This is what we might be facing come the morning of November 6th.
Just know that whatever happens, I will be here. Maybe not as much as I would like, but I will still be posting when I can.
Thank you field hands for always checking in with your comments and insights.
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