I am so happy to report that Joe Biden won the election. We did indeed dump trump. It took some doing though. It is unbelievable, how many people still support trump. It depresses me actually. I try to look on the bright side. Biden got 78.6 million votes to trump’s 72.9 million. People came out in record numbers to vote. Well, many voted absentee ballot, voted by mail. Trump and his supporters are up in arms about that. They hate that so many people voted and they try to cast doubt on mail-in ballots. They are crying fraud but they are wrong. They are really just crying because their fuhrer lost. This election was the safest and most secure election in history. Lots of people voted absentee or by mail (not necessarily the same) due to the pandemic. Early voting was opened up because of it. Early voting as I did, and that was by absentee ballot but I actually went to the clerk’s office and filled it out and turned it in. Well, trumphumpers want all those thrown out. Trump refuses to concede the election and has his base all fired up. He has also filed a bunch of frivolous lawsuits in swing states but the lawsuits are going nowhere. Biden has won the election fair and square.
Personally, I am still uneasy. This country needs to heal but I don’t see that happening anytime soon. Trump and trumpism has widened the divide and you really can’t talk sense to those that support him. They are, for the most part, ignorant and/or delusional, or worse, are willfully ignorant and just plain mean. They consistently vote against their own interests. Those are the delusional ones. Like the ones that are on government assistance or have relatives on assistance but vote for a candidate that wants to cut “entitlements” and programs that help the poor. They view education as a bad thing, something warded off with the cross and holy water. Those are the willfully ignorant. It is hard to explain, hard to detail. They don’t see the damage “conservative” policies have done to this country over the years. Just give them a tiny tax cut and their happy and cry independence. Cut a few regulations (never mind the future) and they claim manufacturing jobs are here and here to stay. They are blind to the fact that in recent years the Democratic presidents have actually cut deficits and grew the economies. Republican policies have only grown the deficits and hurt our economy. Perhaps not trump, his economy was moving along nicely before the pandemic but it wasn’t really his. It was still growth from the Obama years. Trump cut some regulations, sure, but I don’t know that helped the middle class or the poor. I think it just helped business owners and CEOs.
Trump made us look bad around the world, but his supporters don’t care. They think believe his rhetoric that his foreign policies were awesome. I’ve actually heard good and bad on it. Even if he had some successes, overall he has damaged our standing with our allies. Trump bungled the pandemic response–they don’t care about that either because they don’t believe the pandemic is real.
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