Has this ever happened to you: Every one of your friends — and even acquaintances — tells you that the person you’re so madly in love with is a piece of shit, but you continue to love them anyway? Well, that’s me and my relationship with America.
Now I have to eat a large helping of crow, with a side order of humble pie, since I foolishly went way out on a limb and predicted Joe Biden would win in a landslide. I thought that after four years of madness our nation would come to its collective sense and run this fool out of office. I could not have been more wrong. Fools don’t run other fools out of office.
Once again the pollsters were bamboozled by folks — primarily white, but some Hispanics and blacks — that would not fess up to their love and support for an out-and-out racist. They simply didn’t want the world to know how racist they too happen to be in their heart of hearts. Even if the courts rule in Biden’s favor we’ll still have nothing but national gridlock. But more importantly, we now know, without a shadow of a doubt, what kind of country every other American wants..
Make no mistake: Given everything that led up to the election, particularly tRump’s handling of the pandemic where thousands have died unnecessarily because this fool in the White House doesn’t have an inkling of what he’s doing, for him to garner as many votes as he has in his bid to be reelected, it’s quite clear that we’re in the middle of another pandemic, one that attacks the brain.
Commonsense, decency and true love of country have been subsumed by racial/social/sexual animus that resides in half of the population. America — where the Republican Party has been turned into a Kool-Aid drinking cult — is clearly divided, comprised 50% decent folk who want to move towards a brighter tomorrow and another 50% who are desirous of rolling progress back to the days when women were in the kitchen, gays were in the closet, and blacks were in the back of the bus.
That’s where we are as a nation, and I might as well admit and get used to the fact that I’m a fool. I’ve been in love with one of the ugliest broads that ever bestrode the earth — but I don’t know how to stop. I don’t want any country but America.
Can I at least have some barbecue sauce on that crow?
From CoolCleveland correspondent Mansfield B. Frazier mansfieldfATgmail.com. Frazier’s From Behind The Wall: Commentary on Crime, Punishment, Race and the Underclass by a Prison Inmate is available in hardback. Snag your copy and have it signed by the author at http://NeighborhoodSolutionsIn
2 Responses to “MANSFIELD: Eating Crow”
Brian J Sroub
You speak the truth. This coming from a white man at odds with so many white women now, I can’t believe it. But you left out one major point: the one-issue Catholic voters willing to vote for anyone their pastor tells them to. I was raised Catholic and left. Fortunately there are fewer Catholic s everyday because of the hypocrisy and illogic. Please don’t publish my last name.
P Jeffrey
I need some sauce on my crow too. So disappointed in OH and Cle area. There was a massive effort to GOTV, register people, get them VBM applications, publicize vote411.org and the LWV Greater Cleveland printed voters guides, and other guides too. So many people volunteered when it wasn’t easy–no large community events because of the pandemic. Still less people voted in Cle than in 2016. So sad.