I’m nervous about the outcome of today, and yet I’m also kind of tired of it all.
Donald Trump is an absolute psychopath and has given us so many reasons that he doesn’t deserve to be a leader in any stretch of the imagination, and yet tens of millions of people around our country are voting for him anyways. Some because “they like his politics” and are willing to overlook his character, and let’s be honest … some because they like his character, in that having an asshole as President of the United States kind of solidifies their right to be assholes, too.
Character is a big part of what’s decided my vote in the last few elections, but it’s never been as bad as this. Remember this scene back in 2008 when John McCain took the mike away from one of his supporters and corrected her after she claimed that Barack Obama was a Muslim???
It’s hard to imagine a Republican candidate since then actually sticking up for his opponent, particular when in Trump’s case he’s the one slinging vitriol and hatred and literally stirring his people up to riot in the event that he loses.
He was an embarrassment eight years ago the first time that he ran and won, and now I would argue that he’s even more dangerous because he knows that he can get away with just about anything. That joke about “Shooting someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue and not losing any votes…” takes on new meaning when the former president has actually talked about retribution against his enemies … because don’t forget that we’re all Americans here, so the idea that the president considers some citizens to be his enemies is even more frightening than last time when he called the free press the enemy of the people.
The man is just exhausting and I need him to go back to hosting a reality TV show where he can pump his ego all he wants and it doesn’t really matter. We’re never going to get away from this divided country that we find ourselves in if the Chief Divider is willing to let his biggest supporters lead us into another civil war, as if that would really solve anything, anyways.
Few people realize that not either of the World Wars, but America’s Civil War was in fact the bloodiest war that Americans have ever taken part in.
More Americans died fighting each other than they did in all of the other wars combined.
We don’t need another civil war.
We need to work through our differences and find compromises on both sides of the table, and start treating each other as equals again instead of the enemy that’s trying to kill babies and overrun our nation with illegal immigrants.
Today I voted for Kamala Harris, not only because her character is one that I would actually introduce my kids to or allow them to listen to her speak without worry about what they’re going to hear, but also because I’m beyond ready to leave the Trump drama behind us and try to move forward as a nation – as divided as we are, even without that nutjob at the helm.
And it’s scary because I have little doubt that this week is going to end in violence if the results have Trump losing like they did last time. January 6th is an ugly scar on our history and it probably won’t be the last, but if anything, that’s all the more reason why he doesn’t deserve to win.
If you were to play any game with somebody and before you even started, the other guy said, “I’m so good at this game. The only way you could ever beat me is if you cheat!” … you wouldn’t play the game with him, would you?! It doesn’t take a psychic to read how that’s going to play out, either with him gloating over his inevitable win or him calling you a cheater in poor sportsmanship if he loses.
The whole notion of a peaceful transition of power was already taken off the table with Trump’s last presidency between, well, his insurrection, and him refusing like a baby to attend President Biden’s inauguration to formally hand over the office. Anyone who doesn’t think a second term will be equally or more chaotic is either fooling themselves or just wants to watch the world burn.
Let’s hope there are still enough of us who don’t to try and turn this thing around.