We Were Wrong About America

[WhiteTara]

https://johnpavlovitz.com/2020/11/05/we-were-wrong-about-america/

The delayed results of the presidential election will be revealed soon, but in many ways, those results will be secondary to what we already know now: we were wrong about America.

The fact that it was even close, the fact that more people voted for him a second time, the fact that a higher number of white women inexplicably affirmed him—it is all confirmation that whether we remove the very visible, unsightly symptom or not, the pervasive disease is still horribly afflicting us.

Numbed by a cocktail of optimism and ignorance, many of us imagined this was a sick, momentary aberration; a temporary glitch in the system that would surely be remedied: after so much ugliness, such open disregard for people of color, such inhumanity toward migrant children, such a sickening failure in the face of this pandemic—sanity would surely come to the rescue.

We were certain that we would collectively course-correct; that the pendulum that had so wildly swung toward inhumanity would come roaring back to decency in these days; that we would presently be basking in the glory of a radiant dawn referendum on all this bloated bigotry.

We thought we would be dancing on the grave of fascism



I'm sitting here this morning and in mourning for the humanity that has left humans and given us this.

[dalton99a]

1. The Karens captured on camera were not anomalies.

[BusyBeingBest]

2. This is a fresh stain on us that we will never be able to remove,

like all the other stains of our history--they may fade over time but are still there to remind us of how bad we are sometimes.

[BComplex]

3. I still wonder how much of this was perpetrated by overseas actors

messing with our computers.

I'm sorry, but there are too many holes in our elections for me to feel like this was all the doing of a bunch of brainwashed idiots who think they're the only "patriots" who ever lived.

I know there are a bunch of brainwashed people. But I know, personally, too many republicans that wanted nothing to do with another trump term...or a republican senate!! I just don't believe the voting anomalies, nor that the polls were that far off.

I also don't think our LAST presidential election was free of computer hacking. The fact that so many of our (very old, non-tech-savvy) elected officials don't believe our computerized voting machines can POSSIBLY be hacked is the worst kind of ignorance. I have more double-checking to get into my Amazon account than I have security over elections.