I know, even as I write this, there is still a good chance that Biden will claw out a win, but that doesn’t make me feel better.
Actually, I feel worse than I did in 2016.
I can accept that good people voted for Trump that year because it was a change election, and what the Democrats we’re offering was just more of the institutional same, which wasn’t helping most people.
After five years of being a public political figure, everyone knows exactly who he is. And still, at this moment, 45% of the voting public wanted four more years of it. Of racism, incompetence, self dealing, corrupt, misogyny, and I could go on, and on.
That 45% of the country could look at a President like and somehow think a continuation is s as good idea.
It makes me feel like what I was told about the greatness of America is a lie. That we are not a shining city in a hill, but a people who are giving to our base instincts.
I now believe that change will come, but not for another generation. The Greatest Generation is gone, and no longer relevant to our body politics. We are dealing with yet another Boomer problem. The Boomers were the last generation to grow up in government sanctioned racism, and though they worked to stop it, a good number of them worked to keep it. It is that upbringing of “acceptable bigotry” is what is holding us all back. We have 20 more years of it.
Only when Gen-X and the following generations come into political power, will we finally begin to seriously deal with this hate.
Sadly, I don’t know if America has 20 years left…
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