Today, at this precise moment, nearly half of Americans who voted are overjoyed while the other half are losing their minds in collective rage. Meanwhile, the majority of Americans who voted neither for Biden nor Trump, or chose not to vote at all due to the lack of viable options that could actually deliver change in America, are yet again left out in the cold.
The people who voted for Biden are convinced that we have arrived at a new day while the folks who supported Trump are convicted in their belief that we are at the doorsteps of tyranny in America. Both are right and both are wrong; the reality is that the optics have changed but when it comes to economic and foreign policies, the bureaucracies in DC and the billionaires in gated mansions who determine both will remain as constant as the rock of Gibraltar. It might be a new day but it’s the same tune when it comes to the continued fleecing of the poor, working and middle-class and the unending wars that finance the military-financial complex.
As I’m writing this article at a local coffee shop in our nation’s capital, there are an endless procession of cars blaring their horns overjoyed not so much with Biden’s election but the rejection of Trump’s hateful antics. Of course, DC is about as “blue” as blue can get; I’m sure there are folks in “red” states and rural areas who are currently fuming at the idea of Biden being the next president. This is the soap opera of US politics, it derives its power by triggering Americans on a visceral level It’s easy to...continued
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