President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris were elected to lead the United States starting on January 20th, 2021. We can take a sigh of relief that the decline of America towards dictatorship has been put on hold. America made the right choice.
Barely.
Even without President Trump in office for long, there remains much to be concerned about. Trump is not the virus which threatens our survival as a democratic nation. He is nothing more than a pronounced symptom of the deeper cause of our malaise. While 82.3 million Americans voted for Joe Biden, 74.2 million attempted to empower Trump to continue in 2020. Whether they’re aware of it or not, the latter continue to support the degradation of the Constitution and the rise of authoritarianism in its place. Without learning what they’ve done wrong, their ignorance will motivate them to continue voting for whichever authoritarian celebrity next gains popularity among them, be it Donald Trump in 2024 or another demagogue who takes his place.
The Senate furthermore has a fair chance of remaining dominated by the same so-called Republican Party under Mitch McConnell’s leadership that voted to exonerate Trump of impeachment in spite of ample evidence of his extensive criminal efforts to obstruct justice, his abuses of power, and his traitorous actions against US interests.[1][2][3] The same party that 19 state attorneys general and 126 congressional representatives more recently attempted to overturn the presidential election by throwing out the people’s votes in four key states that voted for President-elect Biden.[4] The same party which can only be regarded by well-informed literates as a force dedicated to the destruction of the US Constitution and for authoritarianism in its place. The same party of cowards and power-mongers motivated by self-interest: their desire to maintain power makes them fear opposing the 74 million Americans (i.e. their own constituency) who still support Trump strongly enough to have voted for him.
Therefore, efforts to better inform Americans are still needed. This blog will continue on then, in order to help transform American ignorants into American information-literates.
Sources
[1] U.S. Department of Justice, Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Presidential Election, vol. 2, Mar. 2019, https://www.justice.gov/storage/report_volume2.pdf (accessed Dec. 27, 2020).
[2] U.S. Congress, House, Judiciary Committee, Articles of Impeachment Against Donald John Trump, 116th Congress, 1st session, Dec. 18, 2019, https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hres755/BILLS-116hres755enr.pdf (accessed Dec. 27, 2020).
[3] “Watch Adam Schiff Deliver His Closing Remarks In The Senate Impeachment Trial | NBC News,” NBC News, Feb. 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUm6OD_93g8 (accessed Dec. 27, 2020).
[4] Nomaan Merchant, Alanna Durkin Richer, and Mark Sherman, “Supreme Court rejects Republican attack on Biden victory,” The Associated Press, Dec. 12, 2020, https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-lawsuits-elections-fe784086a81497dcfe38f0eb5bffd36d (accessed Dec. 27, 2020).
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