The late Jamaican reggae singer
known as Prince Buster, certainly did not have Donald Trump in mind
when he wrote," Hard man Fi Dead," some 60 years ago.
The Prince Buster classic.
But this reggae classic fits Trump perfectly!
Many people throughout the world are really mystified
how someone like Trump, a man with the reputation for: cheating small contactors and other persons including applicants to his
university, misappropriation of foundation funds for his own use, sexually harassing and even raping women, and who was convicted of a felony by his peers, and on an on, could get such an overwhelming
mandate from the richest and most powerful country in the world.
And this mandate is such that those who
warned that he could be a Hitler could be prophetic, for with him
sweeping the presidency both in terms of popular vote and electoral
college votes, sweeping the Senate and most likely the Congress and controlling
the Supreme Court and lower courts ad infinitum, there is nothing to stop
him doing anything he wants during the next four years.😡
What is sad, is that the Democrats
could also be out of power for decades, unless of course, they wake from their
stupor and stop blaming everyone but themselves.
Short-sighted Democrats who claim that
they lost because Americans will never elect a woman, are overlooking
the fact that Hilary beat him by three million votes in 2016 and only
lost because of the weird electoral college system. And when they hold up the
race card, how do they explain how Obama,
a black man, won in the USA, not once but twice?
There is even more stark information that
they are misreading the facts when you look at voter turnout in the critical
states; For example, Trump won Wisconsin by 23,000 votes but in Milwaukee, 93,000
black people did not vote!
He won Florida by 113,000 votes where 379,000
black people did not bother to vote. And that pattern is repeated all over.
So, are they really saying that those
blacks who did not vote for Harris are racists?
The Democratic leadership needs to wake up
and take full responsibility for their shortcomings.
For they are the root of all the evil.
Kamala ran a good campaign, considering the
short time she had and the fact that as Vice President, she had to accept responsibility
for all that went wrong under Biden.
But it was the powerful Leadership of the
Democratic Party that kept others out of a primary to replace Biden when he
broke his promise to serve only one term.
Even I, a mere neophyte could see that Biden was fading fast, and I said just
that in April 2023, in Joan,
my views: He is just too old!.
But the leadership kept lying to the people
until it was too late and they had to choose Kamala who had not even been a front-runner
when Biden got the nomination in August 2020.
The Democrats have it all wrong for the exit
polls show that the immortal words uttered by James Carville; “It’s the economy stupid,” is as true
today as when he first uttered it.
The powerful and wealthy Democratic leadership
can continue to drag down the Party by disregarding reality, although over 70%
said they voted for change because they were finding it difficult to cope economically. And don't forget, Trump the master marketer, never failed to ask the question at his well publicised rallies: are you worse off today than you were four years ago?
In other areas, the democratic leadership is
totally out of step with the majority, for most immigrants who became citizens
after going through the long, tedious legal process to be able to vote, were turned
off by the immigration policy which allowed people to simply climb a wall and
get accepted in to the USA!
In places such as New York and Chicago,
black Americans were also expressing disgust at how wall climbers were being
given free housing, and debit cards, when their homelessness and
dire economic situation was being disregarded by the Democratic elites.
Also, because the Democrats neglected its
base made up of workers, unions such as the Teamsters, refused to endorse
them for the first time in decades.
Then there was their strange stance on transgenderism
which endorsed underperforming male athletes getting sex changes and
destroying the hopes of hard working female athletes in just about every genre.
Sure, there is racism and misogyny
in the USA, and small groups will always vote in line with their petty
biases, but by ignoring the real issues, the Democrats will fade into
oblivion and may even cause the fascism they shouted so loudly about, to
become a reality.
In light of these realities, we can only hope
that Trump’s promise during his acceptance speech on election night 'to
help our country heal and to be the president every citizen' is not just words.
It’s difficult to see how it can be otherwise though, as these words are so much out of step with his character. Also the possibility of a 78
year old man really being able to change seems so impossible!
But as it stands today, we can only live in
hope.
