It’s never actually ‘either/or.’ When we vote against what we don’t like, we are voting for the other candidate whether we like them or not. Those who voted against Harris because she was Biden’s VP, against the woman, against the not-white candidate, voted for Trump. Those who took it all for a lark or a snarky slap at and a vote against the Establishment voted for Trump because he was their joke.
He was no mystery, he held no secrets or surprises: We could all see what he was, and we knew he lied with his mouth even when he acted out his intentions for the future of the US. And sometimes he did state outright what he’d do in a second term. Nothing he is doing now was unpredictable or even unpredicted. He warned us himself!
When someone tells you who they are, believe them.
So what we are dealing with now is what those who voted against Harris, voted for. Anyone who is still making excuses for Trump or for voting for him… they chose what to see and what to ignore and what to pass as tolerable. They chose what to believe despite all evidence and action clearly laid out.
Anyone suffering from ‘buyer’s remorse’ at this time has a couple, maybe three options:
- Continue to support him no matter what, riding his coattails wherever they lead;
- Own the mistake and change horses and add some strength and momentum to the defense of the Constitutional democracy now at risk;
- Go on hiding until it’s all over one way or the other.
Bottom line: Everyone living in the US, we are all in this, all playing some role, standing or lying down: every one of us making choices every day; we and our children and their children will live with the consequences of what most of us do now. Once again, we vote with our actions and our silences both for and against.
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