I’ve racked my brain at least a couple hundred
times this week. I’ve tried in vain to seek out that time when a transfer of
power was held any circumstances such as these. As we go about our day, there
are scores of military personnel in Washing D.C. to see that the transfer of
power from the out-going Donald Trump to the duly elected Joe Biden is
completed. Trump, not to be unexpected, as opted to skip out of the inauguration
and go golfing. Even after a sound defeat at the hands of FDR, President Hoover
at least went to Roosevelt’s inauguration. And Hoover let the country sink into
a national depression because he, being a small government minded Republican,
opted not to make the needed investments that would have created jobs. Which is
much like Trump, who opted to fiddle while America burned and descended into a chaotic
state unlike, we’ve ever seen before.
I tried to picture John Kennedy’s inauguration.
Kennedy took on the old guard in Richard Nixon and handed him a defeat. Much of
Kennedy’s policies, such as equal civil rights, angered the many in the
Southern states who viewed him as public enemy number one for what they felt
was an attack on their traditional lifestyle. However, not even that inauguration
was held under times as tense as these. We are living in a time that saw the
Capitol Building assaulted and briefly seized by homegrown terrorist inspired
by Trump, whom they view as their unquestioned winner and rightful president,
even though he was defeated in the election. Those terrorists and that is the
right term, even took to social media to brag about their exploits, and each
and everyone of them claimed the same thing, they were on a mission at the
behest of Donald J. Trump.
Thanks to the rhetoric from Trump and his sycophants
like Matt Gatez and Ted Cruz, those minions are taking to what ever social media
platform they can find and proclaim they are coming to disrupt the transfer of
power. Though evidence clearly says otherwise, these people actually think
there is a deep state that has deprived Trump from office.
If you pitched this to a movie executive, you’d get
laughed out of the building. This sounds like a plot to a B-movie, it’s just
too insane to be real. Alas, that’s where we are. Joe Biden will be sworn in as
the next president of the United States while the military states guard against
easily lead sheep who have vowed a bloody revolution. Another factor that doesn’t
help is that Sean Hannitty and Tucker Carlson are willfully acting as Trump’s
cheerleaders, happy to parrot Trump’s misinformation as they try to fend off
conspiracy driven pseudo news networks like Newsmax and OAN to keep Fox News as
Trump’s favorite media outlet.
I cannot gaze into a crystal ball and predict what
this perfect storm is going to do. We’re pretty much as a place that has no
historic paroral in American history. Never before has this nation experienced
a president whom before leaving office, is doing everything he can in order to
cast doubt on the legitimacy of the new administration. Not even Richard Nixon,
in his most drunken fits of anger and rage, ever spewed the combination of
anger and insanity Trump has. One could only imagine what damage he’d be doing
as we speak, if he hadn’t been banned from Twitter. Trump losing his social
media platform isn’t going to silence him. Trump is a man who has dined with
the mafia. Trump is a man who showed admiration for Putin a man who either
jailed his critics (like he did to the members of the band Pussy Riot) or flat
had them murdered. He’s skillfully learned how to manipulate people and he’ll
find away to keep doing that. Even if it means tearing the country asunder,
because America as a free nation, is something Trump is willing to sacrifice in
order to feed his ego. And that’s something we need to address before it’s too
late.
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