What a relief it was when the call was made yesterday and the news channels started to show the line reached and then the crowds dancing in the streets of America's cities. Even over here, thousands of miles away in another country, there was a profound sense of elation that for once, the first time in the past decade pretty much, a political result has gone the right way, that a push back against the reactionary right wing has been made. These things matter.
Maybe, just maybe, this is the start of a general shift away from the extreme right. Maybe I'm getting ahead of myself. But let's hope.
ReplyDeletePersonally I'd like to see Trump go the whole meltdown on the White House lawn, ending in him being carted off and sectioned whilst all shown live on CNN, but I suspect he'll just resign before January. Shame, it would be great to see the ally of Johnson, Raab, Gove and Farage et al look even more stupid, as if that were possible.
It'd been a long four days, but common sense prevailed.Make America Sane Again.
ReplyDeleteSuch a big relief as you say... a glimmer of hope, at long last.
ReplyDeleteWhile the USA is still a house very divided - Biden may have gotten the largest number of votes of any Presidential candidate, ever, but Trump got the second most as loser. The hope is with Biden as winner, we have a President who has his mind set on starting the healing and making bringing in everyone into the process.
ReplyDeleteI heard someone say recently they'd like a President they can just have on in the background- which seemed a good way of putting it. The number of times I've heard US people say they wake in the morning and dread opening twitter or putting on the news because of what he might have said/ tweeted/ done while they were asleep.
ReplyDeleteHallelujah! Trump is finally finished. Lying had become the modus operandi of his 'reign' and seemed to infected the world. It is ironic that a global pandemic finally sucked the life out of his mendacity. Biden appears a more benign, empathetic man. I am optimistic that truth and decent humanity may win through.
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ReplyDeleteGlad he's gone but, given half the voters went for him more or less, the relief may be relatively short-lived. The GOP's willingness to enable and facilitate Trump's ascent to power and their almost total silence on his worst excesses, bar a few notable exceptions, bodes ill for the US and, inevitably, the rest of the world. We'll get a break now for a while but I'm not optimistic that it will morph in to anything more permanent.
Nice to have ONE thing go right this year
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