This year’s election cycle really hit the same note as the rest of 2020. It was quite the clown show. It’s been weird, annoying, malicious, confusing, and (like the rest of this year) did its best to bring out the worst in some people. It was an interesting chapter for many of us watching on the sideline. Potential election fraud and the like will not be addressed in this article, since we don’t quite yet know what is going on. So let’s jump in.
People who have read other articles posted on here know that Louisiana’s Amendment 1 was discussed thoroughly in the week before the election. The main idea behind that article was to show a little more in-depth research than your average Facebook user. That article, Fetal Fear Mongering, better describes the amendment than a similar article written for a newsletter called “The American South” and published to Lafayette’s The Daily Advertiser’s website. Surprise! The headline for that article is misleading as well. The article will be cited below.
So newspapers are slow and behind the Bayou Observant for political issues. What next? Let’s address our society on social media. Many folks have spent the last 4 years incessantly complaining about President Trump as if he is personally victimizing every single one of them. But their super-dramatic mindsets somehow changed when they “elected” someone who has actually spoke in the past of personally victimizing many Americans and foreign nationals. Joe Biden has spoke in the past years about banning fracking—a process which needs man power to do. Many folks in the oilfield serve the fracking service line by itself. However, the butterfly effect from such a law would hurt many people beyond the frac crew.
Really, what is the deal with the mentality that President Trump has been a serious threat to the lives of normal Americans? In case you don’t remember, President Trump helped broker the two peace deals between Israel and both the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. Bahrain and the UAE joined only two other Middle Eastern countries to recognize Israel as a country since its founding in 1948. President Trump also spearheaded the First Step Act, which passed in 2018 despite a similar bill being shot down in 2015. Opponents of Donald Trump (and, by extension, Republicans) have long said that he is racist and have willingly ignored these two big achievements and many others that were accomplished.
Women weren’t left out either. Donald Trump promoted Kellyanne Conway in August 2016, where she became the first woman to run a successful presidential campaign. He also recently nominated Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court seat vacated when Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away. In the time between, though not directly caused by Trump or Joe Biden (as far as we know), The Squad was elected in 2018. Four women of different minority backgrounds were elected to the House of Representatives. Four women (of many in Congress) who were trying to say how oppressed women and/or minorities are, while being elected to one of the highest public offices in the country.
We have lost a sense of unity because some people willingly separated away from a common goal. They say it’s because the other side is too hateful or some other garbage excuse. What’s really happened is these people imagined Donald Trump as a giant baby, when they fit the role better. They claimed him to be racist, and covered their eyes and ears when he did something that was very much empowering to minorities. And these people, who were sore losers for FOUR YEARS, are acting righteous because their candidate won. It is abhorrent behavior.
A Biden presidency probably not be magical for our country. The only lives that will dramatically improve are his and others in high political positions. The rest of us will be more or less the same as we have been and were the last time Biden was around the White House.
Sources:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-54124996
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/what-first-step-act-and-whats-happening-it
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