Reconstruction of America After Election

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Volcano in Japan. Online pic.

Japan has more that 440 active volcanoes, so they are used to cleaning up after an eruption. There’s ash everywhere. Americans can approach them for reconstruction tips after the November presidential election, but I don’t think Japan can help them. You see, volcanoes are good old nature whereas, the volcano in America is a man, just one man.

A volcano can be dormant for 250 years and erupt in 2024. In the U.S.A. the human volcano has already activated its scorching lava, throwing most of it at the judiciary. That country has three government branches: legislative, executive and judiciary. All of them have tiles in place glued together with grout, necessary to uphold the structure the U.S. Constitution created. The human volcano’s vociferous slander of men and women in the legal profession is bound to filter down to his disciples, and America doesn’t want to live like other countries where there’s a loud knock on the door at dawn, and opponents are never seen again.

After November 2024, how does the judiciary restore the people’s belief in the legal system, that Donald Trump and his cohorts in Genius Georgia were not intentionally treated with kid gloves? It’s because of the system itself, that allows certain procedures to ensure fair trials and equal treatment before the law. You cannot throw out the baby with the bath water, just because Donald Trump abuses those procedures.

The most challenging part of the post-November reconstruction will be reconciling Americans to each other. Donald Trump will leave a ton of volcanic ash on rooftops but the world sees it as America, not blue or red states, just America.

Nonqaba waka Msimang

Executive Blogger

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