2020 Election Lesson

This piece is posted at the crossroads of American democracy, 6 November 2020 where there is still no winner for the U.S. presidency. Biden or Trump? We don’t know.

This stalemate is a wake up call, a reminder that voters’ minds are closed to the public. They act this way, in protests, podcasts, Twitter and Facebook feeds, but act that way when they are alone in the voting booth, or voting by mail. They are like snakes. They shed their skin.

That’s why there’s a deadlock after the 3 November election, when the world assumed that it was going to be a walk in the park for the Biden/Harris duo.

Why? Not because they ran a meticulous campaign, but because Donald Trump was regarded as a suicidal president through his actions, lies, Tweets and denial that COVID-19 exists, until he caught it. That assumption was wrong. The votes he garnered tell a different story. He represents millions of Americans.  

The fact that there was no winner on 3 November, is the bitter realization that his supporters do not regard him as a madman, a racist,  and a tax evading capitalist but a preacher, in the Trump church.

For a man who has ‘America’ in his slogan, he made it clear before the election that if he doesn’t get this way, he will denigrate the voting system, especially how votes are counted. Members of his church have answered the call and are challenging the voting process, that made America great in the first place.

Donald Trump is not the problem. It’s church members who will be around, long after he’s gone.

This is another ‘written podcast’ by Nonqaba waka Msimang.