Oh ye of little faith, thee of weak in the knees, the Mr. Pookies of the country (you know, those who are always afraid the sky is about to fall) take heart, buck up. As FDR said, “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.”
Confidence (not over-confidence mind you) is, in addition to being sexy, what it takes to win in any contest — and remember, scared money (or people) don’t win; they usually lose. In this current contest — a battle for the soul and future of the country no less — we have to have faith in “vox populi” literally, “the voice of the people.”
Someone once said, quite accurately, I might add, that we get the type of government we deserve, and America, in spite of her flaws, deserves better than what we have had for the last four years. Now, if we don’t turn out to vote in sufficient numbers for change, then, as democracy dictates, the other side gets to set the American agenda — it’s as simple as that.
But, with that said, I do believe the majority of the American electorate has experienced enough of the madness since 2016 that it will turn out in overwhelming numbers to demand a change, and, while I’m aware of all of the dirty tricks Republicans are attempting to play to hold onto power at the ballot box, such anti-democratic acts will affect less than one-percent of the vote — not enough to make a difference in the outcome. Again, if I’m wrong, the other side wins.
However, the simple fact is, I know this country and its people as well, or indeed better, than 99.99 percent of the people that will vote by November 3. I’ve had to get to know the populace well; my survival in an oftentimes hostile environment depends on it — and trust me, I’m under no illusions as to the real nature of the American public.
If our country really was comprised predominately of goodhearted, caring citizens (as most in the nation love to pretend to be), we would have never experienced the rise of a madman in the first place. Some like to fool themselves into believing in that aforementioned democracy, when all the while we’ve actually been — since the founding of the Republic — living in a pigmentocracy, a country where race too often is the first and foremost consideration.. It simply caught up to us in 2016 due to the severe backlash of eight years of Obama in the White House. But it went too far overboard. Republicans took the revenge joke way past Broadway.
However, the last four years of being consistently lied to (while many are now economically disadvantaged as well) has served as a wake-up call to much of the citizenry; and if my white brothers feel four years of such treatment is horrible, they should now be more empathic in regards to the 400 years of such treatment we Americans of African descent have had to consistently endure. It ain’t pretty, is it?
Change is coming — if for no other reason than so many whites are damn tired of being treated as if they’re nothing but a bunch of Negroes.
