The 2024 presidential election has ended and things certainly did not go as expected, with former president carrot somehow winning a second term. This not only makes him now only the second person to server two non-consecutive terms, but also the first convicted felon to be elected president. That, alone, makes zero sense to me given the fact that in general felons cannot vote. Seriously, make it make sense!
It would be one thing if this was the same incompetent asshole as we had in the 2016 election, but this is a much worse situation in that, not only do we now know the insanity of this man and what he actively will say and do in office, but we have the theocratic insanity that is Project 2025.
That was, quite probably, the single most important aspect of this election — stopping project 2025 from even having its “foot in the door” so to speak by having the puppet that is Trump in office again to enact legislation which will enable the goals in Project 2025 to come to fruition. IF you haven’t looked into it, you certainly should. It’s…. eye opening, to say the least.
Beyond Project 2025, though, it’s incredible to think that anyone with any sense at all could have thought in 2016, let alone now in 2024, that Trump was in any way, shape, or form, fit for such a role. For my average reader I don’t need to re-tread tired ground but seriously…. that is what people think is presidential? It’s madness.
I will, only here in passing, bring up how he handled Covid-19 and all the deaths resulting from that debacle.
Of course, I say this as if I’m ignoring what the MAGA cult really is as, well, a cult. This goes beyond the Republican party as it has existed for the last 60 years, and goes beyond traditional “right wing” values, but is an ultimate extreme of it — a Trump worshiping cult that rivals the cult of personality of the Kim family of North Korea. They want complete control and, as mentioned above with Project 2025, to turn the United States into an Evangelical Christian Theocracy: The absolute opposite of the ideals this nation was founded on and, in an odd twist, an identical end result as that of the Iranian Revolution — Just replace authoritarian Christianity for authoritarian Islam.
I just… I don’t really have words yet to articulate the concern I feel for our future. All I can say is I’ll be, when opportunities present themselves, fighting tooth and nail to do what I can via activism to protect what still survives of this nearly 250 year old republic; whatever is worth saving, that is…
I will end with this much to say — if you read this you’ll notice I’ve accepted the results of the election. I’ve not claimed it stolen, rigged (beyond typical and well documented influence tactics most certainly stemming from Russian, China, etc, to motivate swing voters to the right) and most certainly on the ratification day of the election results won’t be committing what should be classed as treason like a certain group did on January 6th 2021,
In any case, I guess the next 4 years are going to be interesting… especially Nov. 2028 to Jan. 2029…. Let’s see if democracy still exists in this nation by then.