“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” right?
That’s what legendary four-time presidential-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt said as the country fought perhaps its most challenging crisis in American history, second only to the Civil War.
Although the current situation may be nowhere near as bad as the perilous times of the Great Depression, you wouldn’t guess that if you turned on the news.
You may think the country was in worse condition and that a great leader had been assassinated, only to be replaced by a sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, racist, Satan-worshiping, anti-human, tyrant. One who had forcibly manipulated the electoral college to select him as winner of the most hateful election conceivable.
Fear mongering that the left mocked the Republicans of doing, though they had a point at times, is now being slandered by many who simply cannot accept the results of the election. There are despicable people out there.
Granted, this was but only the fifth time in history that a presidential candidate won the electoral college, yet lost the popular vote. Three other instances that occurred were in the 1800s, while the last time was the fateful 2000 election between George W. Bush and global warming alarmist Al Gore.
With tensions lower after the prosperous ‘90s, less violent fuss was made regarding that law, one that is at the center of the U.S. Constitution.
The tumultuous decade that followed the economic collapse of 2007 and 2008 has led to a vastly different America, one where the people and the political leaders couldn’t be more at odds.
That, tied with the two abysmal candidates we just watched gnaw and claw at each other for a year, fighting for a position no one wanted them to have, definitely has not helped people understand how someone can win a popular vote and not be elected president.
The answer is states’ rights, but try telling that to someone who’s in tears over the election because they are terrified that the environment is going to be forgotten for four years, Planned Parenthood possibly defunded and a Supreme Court that, if filled by a far-right scholar, will stand at a disposition to all their ideals.
With fearful stories popping up regularly on the internet about how all minorities need to be weary of severe racism to come, woman of their bodies and children who will now grow up to be criminals after seeing Trump deliver a speech, we are creating unneeded additional fear.
The leaders are echoing this. Hillary Clinton said in her concession speech that we must turn ourselves to support the new president. He was democratically elected.
Obama has sworn to respect the decision of the people, even offering any council necessary to ensure the success of the president for the next four years.
But the media stands strongly opposed to the current president’s sentiments.
Instead, they perpetuate the hate talk, calling Trump a racist and even a Nazi. That’s what the viewers, those disconnected from their political leaders, want to hear. Emotion is power.
Hate crimes on both sides, egged on by the other each and every time, fill up the screens of social media everywhere.
It’s impossible to feel good about America. It’s impossible to feel good about anything when every post you see is a violent crime, a statement about how some aspect of the country is falling apart or a hateful blog post about why the white privileged should lose the right to vote.
I’m trying to stay positive.
I think and hope that Trump might march into that Oval Office and start attacking the system, negotiating with everyone, all while scheming for efficiency.
I think his legacy is the most important thing he thinks about. He loves himself. And what more could he possibly want than to be remembered as a great businessman who became America’s leader. Success is everything to this man.
But many do not feel this way. They assume he has no intelligence because those opposed to his ideas having nothing better to say than that. It’s the classic playground comeback when somebody wins an argument of, “Well you’re stupid and ugly!”
This is where America is right now.
I plead Trump to stand up to this. He needs to promise to the people that he will try his best to be a leader of everyone, and that he’ll watch his tongue to avoid offending the politically correct people in cities across America.
With many Americans feeling disenfranchised after a horrible year of campaigning, the country needs Donald Trump to get to work.
Americans now have a varsity hardo in office, whose main vow is to tear apart the political elites that are so hated in this country.
Let’s see what the man can do.
