I felt great relief and gratitude on Saturday evening when the Associated Press announced that Joe Biden had won the election. I listened to the victory speeches and I was touched by the words of Kamala Harris, for whom my respect is growing. She gives so much hope to women. Joe Biden is a good human being. I have listened to him a lot; and when you can listen to someone and look into their eyes and truly hear what they are saying, you get a sense about them. He is sincere. Still, I have felt a dreariness and gloom dampening my spirits today, only partly due to the cloudy sky. I feel sorry for Trump, in a way, because he has never learned how to be a gracious loser. His public tantrums, mostly via Twitter, and his refusal to concede the election are only making these times more difficult for everyone. I am pretty good at separating fact from fiction; and most of the time I have been able to differentiate the truth from the fake news. The lies that had been spread about Biden, Clinton, and the Democratic Party being involved in some nefarious sex ring, was clearly made up in an attempt to tarnish their reputations. This is the kind of behavior that is seen in teenagers, when out of pure meanness, one student will invent lies to hurt another. For the past few years we have had a child in the White House – someone who has refused to grow up and act like an adult. During the impeachment hearings last summer, I had hoped that his wife would step up and testify against him. Yesterday I read that she had advised him to concede; and today I read that she is asking him for a divorce. I have not verified the truth of either, but I can think of no other person who might have any influence over him. Maybe she has had enough of him, as well.
A while back I received a free local newspaper in my mailbox and a sales pitch asking me to buy a subscription. Two days after the election, I received another. This issue was twice as thick and I suspect, financially supported by Trump’s loyal followers. The front page blared an “exclusive” about Hunter Biden’s alleged financial ties to the Chinese Communist party. It was continued on two full pages of the paper. Even if it were true, it is not Hunter Biden, but Joe Biden who is our president-elect. Also beginning on page one, was an article about “ballot harvesting”, obviously written to add to Trump’s paranoia about the election being ”unfair”. In the unlikely scenario that Trump had won the election, I am sure he would confirm that the voting system was working just fine. According to the news reports and the law experts, there is no basis or proof that the voting process was compromised in any way. Trump’s lawsuits and lashing out are just wasting everybody’s time. He could save himself a lot of embarrassment, if he would just concede. As if that weren’t enough to grab your attention, there was a section on Amy Coney Barrett, newly appointed Supreme Court Justice, and a professed pro-lifer who is a threat to women’s rights.
Meanwhile, we seem to be hanging in the balance as we wait for the election issues to be sorted out and wait for COVID-19 to be brought under control. Thanksgiving and the holidays are drawing near and uncertainty fills many of our days. Thankfully, with Joe and Kamala now elected, it feels like there may be light at the end of the tunnel. On a positive note, the Biden’s have two dogs that will accompany them to the White House – German Shepherds – and one of them is a rescue. (Trump, apparently, does not like animals or children.)
