I knew I wanted to let a few days pass before writing about the election. I knew it would take a few days to get the result due to the large turnout, and such a close count. I applaud all the poll workers, and the counters, who were so diligent about keeping the election safe and accurate.
Yet, as expected, many people are whining and yelling about the results. Even the current president. Especially the president. Of course, that is expected because Trump has always been a whiner, and complainer, whenever something doesn’t go his way. He usually fires them. But, this time he can’t. So he is threatening lawsuits. And that is his MO too. Look back on when he was a real estate man, and you will find that he loved to threaten people with lawsuits, knowing some could not handle the legal fees and the lost time. He didn’t care then about doing the right thing. He doesn’t care now.
I personally can not wait to say bye bye to Donald. I really look forward to a respectful president again. Calmness. Respect. I can’t wait to have meanness from the top go away.
So, today what worries me the most is the group Trump created. He has built up a large mass of people who worship him. I don’t say that lightly. There are people now who believe he is God, or was divinely picked. They feel he is the only ‘way’ and that Biden is the anti-president. They have been convinced by 4 years of rallies and Fox devotion that Trump is the one and only. And just because Trump has lost (which they deny, and believe his cries of fraud voting), they still stay strongly committed to him. Defeat is not accepted. Truth doesn’t matter. It never has to them – and it continues to be that way.
Trumpers say they are ‘Republican through and through’ and that they maybe don’t like how he talks, but yet they overlook it. The word ‘overlook’ is too kind. Don’t you think? Because that means they don’t put an emphasis on his language – the meanness – and his eye rolls and shrugs. They love him so much that they don’t let themselves see the bad. The rest of us can’t overlook it. Never could, never will.
So, here we are. We have a president who will not concede. We have Trumpers who follow him regardless of who he is. And in the past few days many of them have been flocking to another social media site called “Parler” to commiserate, to cry, and to talk about the future. From what I know about Parler it has been much looser in standards, and in respectful speech. Threats are allowed. Those on the alt right have been on that site for a while – and now others are joining in. Re-enforcing each other.
I am worried about the next couple of months. We have a president who won’t give up even after losing both the Electoral College and the popular vote. We have a group of followers who are not thinking rationally. We have horrible rhetoric – lies- continuing non-stop. Oh – and we have CoVid.
I am scared we will see violence. I am scared we will see many more CoVid deaths. It’s a sad time for the United States of America.
I am doing my best to ‘go high’ and I tell you, sometimes it’s not easy. When I get so frustrated, and worried, and frightened all I can do is talk to God. Not THAT one… ha. No, the real God – the creator of us all, and nature. The one that says…Marla, love your neighbor. Even the ones that are really hard to love. Continue to do My work. Help those who need help, feed those who are hungry, live life as my child – as my representative. Do that because there is only one true God.
Marla’s Musings 