(ThyBlackMan.com) A very wise man once said, “elections have consequences. Shortly less than two years after the 2024 presidential election many Americans and others have come to understand how true that statement is.
There were many Americans who voted in the November 2024 election who voted not for someone but against someone. Despite one candidate being heads and shoulders over the other, far more qualified to be the leader of the country, many voted against that candidate for no other reason than the person’s race and gender.
Who voted against the candidate born into humble surroundings but nevertheless worked and excelled while following a moral compass. The other candidate, an emotionally, intellectually and mentally challenged individual, knew of no cesspool that he was not willing to swim.
How did that turnout as you dig deeper and deeper into your wallets and pocketbooks to purchase food and clothes for yourself and family? Do you still have that satisfaction that you had election night when you fill up your car to head to work? Were you still delighted that the other candidate lost when you learned your son or daughter, sister or brother and close friends lost their federal jobs for no legitimate reason?
Democrats, Independents and even some Republicans are looking forward to the midterm elections in November. Looking to right the ship and save it from completely sinking.
Some are actually overjoyed that what they perceive as the dark night in America will soon be replaced by a new morning of sanity. That with a new Congress, a responsible Congress, the ills of the nation, the insensitive, inhumane, childish policies of the immoral regime would be halted and reversed.
How wonderful that would be if that was the case. But unfortunately, elections have consequences. So much of the policy as well as the attitudes and tone of the current regime will not and cannot be reversed by a new Congress nor even a new administration. Elections have consequences and what the current regime has done will remain in place for many years, perhaps decades after its slithers from power.
It might take decades if not longer for people throughout the world who once looked at the US admirably and with affection to see the US in a similar light after the last two years. To once again view the US as that shining city on the hill where freedom, justice and equality shined supreme and once served as a beckon of hope and inspiration.
Is that how people who sought political asylum, and those who were legally working through the maze of the US citizenship process still feel about the US after finding themselves deported to some country for which they never lived nor speak its language?
Is that how people in countries that one believed the US a friend and reliable ally feel about the US when the current regime goes out of its way to demean, insult and basically declare war on their country?
The current regime has done more in two years to destroy the US’ image of being a responsible, stable and progressive nation than anything the Chinese, Russians or others could have done in their propaganda campaigns against the US. The current regime with its childish, irrational and playground mentality has forced governments and their people to look at China as the responsible adult in the room.
As children and elderly people throughout the world die from starvation and diseases it will not be lost by many nor forgiven that vital humanitarian aid that both Republican and Democratic administrations had provided over the years was one of the first of many evil actions of the current regime.
Those who survive will not be singing America the Beautiful. They will not see a nation committed to and propelled by goodness but greed. Faith and friendship but fearmongering. Facts but fear. Hope but hate. Righteousness but racism. Mercy but maliciousness. Christianity but cruelty. Love of all mankind but loathing of all who are viewed as other.
Whereas Russia, North Korea and Iran once had the designation of being pariah nations, the current regime through its illegal, immoral, inhumane actions and conduct now own that designation of pariah nation throughout the world. It will keep that designation in many people’s minds throughout the world for a long time after the current regime and its enablers have been swept from the halls of power.
Elections do have consequences and Americans and people throughout the world have seen in just a blink of an eye just how dangerous, deadly and demonic such consequences can be. Yes, elections do have consequences as a very wise man said.
By the way, that very wise man was also a good, moral, righteous man who also served as president of the US. He brought an audacity of hope not just to America but the world. History will proclaim him one of the greatest US presidents ever. It will also highlight him as a man of faith, charity and mercy. His name, President Barack Obama, the 44th President of the US.
Staff Writer; Al Alatunji
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