The X-Ray Election

When I was little, my mother told me that every time you tell a lie, there is a black mark on your soul.

 It goes without saying, then, that our soon-to-be ex-prez has the blackest soul in the history of souls. 

 

President Elect Joe Biden and Vice-President Elect Kamala Harris have long postulated that this election was for the soul of America. Let's think about that because the soul of America right now seems to be split almost down the middle. Almost 70 million Americans voted for an outright murderer for whatever reasons.

 

High among those reasons is the outright racism that has infected this country almost from its founding. It is a scourge that Donald Trump et al elevated to a campaign strategy. He lost, but almost 70 million voted for all the evil that his campaign represented. 

 

Make no mistake, these are desperate times in America, and for many of the citizens who voted for this aberration, being white is the only thing they have left in a country whose Republican “leaders” have abandoned them to the fates of terror capitalism that sees them as mainly a necessary evil that works and consumes in quiet despair as the rich get infinitely richer and the average citizen is left to his or her own despairing devices. 

 

This election was an X-ray of the American soul and body politic and the results, while thankfully getting rid of Trump, have exposed the cancers that lie beneath whatever veneer of smarmy patriotism we have become used to hearing from so many people who should in their heart of hearts know better.

These 70 millions have willfully accepted a government policy that allows the Covid virus to spread unchecked through the land, killing and destroying without regard to politics, but playing more deadly havoc with so-called “minorities.”  

 

These 70 millions – and maybe the rest of us – are becoming inured to body counts that are astronomical in peace time. They are being taught from the highest voice in the land that doctors and science are obstacles to the freedom to infect each other and die by the hundreds of thousands. Sturgis was its Woodstock of evil and death. 

 

This election was no revolution. Far from it. Perhaps the only way a real revolution could happen here is if the internet and cable TV were somehow taken way – but that's not going to happen because these two forms of media are the disseminating engines for all the pap and lies that have become the weather of our lives these past four years – and way before that if we further examine this country's soul.

 

I will be 83 next month. I have lived through the most volatile times in history. I have seen wonders and seeming miracles and I have seen the darkest times of the human soul. 

 

Yes, Trump is gone – but the evil that he has done will live long after he is consigned to his palace in hell. America is still in desperate straits. 

 

Nonetheless, this victory is a desperately needed and welcomed giant first step on this country's path to redemption. This election and the X-rays it produced can be a guidepost along the road to true greatness.