We Were Wrong About America: John Pavlovitz

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91. My feelings along the lines that were pointed out go back to 2016.

Coming into Election Day 2016, as fascism gripped the rest of the world, I thought “this is the USA, we will show them the right path”. Then I watched on election night in stunned disbelief as Trump moved closer to winning the Presidency. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing, I turned off the television, but I could not sleep, the next morning my eyes were a mess and my throat was raw. Fast forward to Tuesday night. As Trump lead in the vote count, was leading in the entire Midwest, and Joe was not gaining electoral ground on him, I wondered whether I was watching 2016 all over again.

Although I believed that mailin ballots would change the picture, in that despairing moment I wondered what I would do. Although I have steadfastly said I would stay here and fight regardless of how the election went, I started to wonder whether fighting was worth it with so many of my fellow Americans deeply under the control of a con man.

I have to believe that people like McConnell wanted to see Trump get smashed, as long as McConnell kept control of the Senate. But things are not working out, Trump will continue to hold enormous power within the Republican Party and chicken shits like McConnell will live in a corner, balled in a fetal position.

We did not slay the monster and then get to hold it’s head high to show one and all that is what happens to rancid monsters. We just injured it and sent it back into it’s dark lair to like it’s wounds and breed little monsters (Magats) that will do it’s bidding. We are left to fight and somehow defeat the hoard of little monsters that are almost as numerous as us, and re-enforced by new monsters who we assumed knew better (many White women). And they will hide in plain view among us, silently poisoning the nation body with their venom.