Thursday, November 5, 2020

The 69 million voter question

As I start to write this, close to 69 million people have chosen to retain the president of the United States in spite of many reasons to not do so.

This leads to question why.

There are some people whom due to their wealth or job would justifiably be better off if the current situation continues. As someone who was anti smoking advertisements until having a job for a place that printed them, I can relate. 

There are people who have been fooled by the ideology presented by the GOP who has made exaggerated claims to convince people they are the ones with the voter in mind.  Catch phrases like socialism, open borders, and they're coming for your guns have been blabbed to scare voters.

There are people who have been fooled by the hard core Christian Evangelist society. They see their leaders with the president, listen to their preacher, and follow what they say. It does not matter that the man they supported used tear gas to clear out the area by a church so he can hold up a Bible upside down and backwards. It does not matter that he likely does not know the four books of the Gospel or that his opponent is a Christian and acts far more like one than him. They are just glad that he will do what he can to prevent unborn babies from getting killed without doing anything for them after they are born.

The last group is those whose preference is based on race. They are fine with refugee families being separated and caged. They are the ones who state if people don't break the law, they don't have to worry about police violence against them. They believe that Black Lives Matter is a terrorist group and that there is an ANTIFA group that does nothing but plan riots. They are the ones who still insist that Barack Obama was born in Kenya and that his wife was actually named Michael and had a sex change.

They are the ones who march in groups and then cry foul when they are outed and their employers decide they don't want them working for them. They are the ones who show up at protests and act like police and when one of them panicks and starts shooting, they are the first to donate to the defense. They are the ones who march with weapons into a state capitol and later plot to kidnap and kill the governor.

They are the ones who gathered outside places where votes are being counted and demanded the counts be either stopped or completed depending on the situation.

Most importantly, these are the people I worry about if the vote ends up Biden 270-268. I could imagine one person or group of people willingly sacrifice their lives to disrupt or change the electoral vote and force it to go to the house.

They are the reason I hope Biden ends up winning GA, PA, or NC as well as NV.

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