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This Country Will Never Be Unified and Maybe That’s Okay
Joe Biden is the new president of the United States of America. He won by a slim margin of just over four million votes. I will admit, I was naive. I thought Trump would lose by a bigger margin, and that the race would be called before bedtime Tuesday night. No, this belief was not founded in logic. I knew that even though the polls showed Biden was leading, they also showed Hillary Clinton was leading in 2016 before she was defeated by Donald Trump. People I’m close to told me that Trump would win, or that he could, so brace myself. I wouldn’t listen. Even on Tuesday night, when it looked like Trump had won, and my sister and I sat in disbelief, I said, “he’s not going to win” and went to bed. It was a belief and hope that I had, because Trump just could not win again.
While it’s disappointing that Trump lost by such a slim margin, he still lost. I am reminded of the phrase, almost doesn’t count. Trump almost winning shows the ugliness of America. The fact that an open racist who divided the nation — opening up a Pandora’s box of emboldened, and often violent, racists, who spoke of Red States and Blue states as if this was the beginning of a second Civil War, and who was incompetent at his job was almost elected president for the second time is disheartening. America is, and always has been, racist to the core. I know this. I acknowledge it…
