America Showed Its True Colors — A Soup of Racism and Misogyny

America — the land of opportunity! Oh boy did that turn out to be right.

A CONVICTED felon, rapist, and most likely one of the most successful con men in history has been re-elected as the President of the United States of America. The other choice was a highly successful, highly intelligent, highly charismatic, highly knowledgeable, and caring WOMAN who is not white!

When I was younger, I really wanted to move to America. To live there. It looked like the land of opportunity and equal everything. Well… I only saw that because I was a white man. Sure, for me, most likely, it would have been that. I am so glad I did not go.

The worst President in the history of the United States of America was re-elected. Americans really hate women and do not want a woman as president. Just as something you should know, Finland had its first female president in 2000, 24 years ago. Who knows when that will happen in the US?

Why?

I am not going to talk about conspiracy theories or things that are weird. Like the fact that we had records in terms of registration and around 20 million less votes. How that is possible, I do not know!

What I will mention is that the United States of America was NOT built on the foundation of equality. This is just propaganda. This was just theory. In reality, America was built on a foundation of slavery, misogyny, and racism.

White women were given the right to vote in 1920. Then it took until 1965 and later on 1990 through the Voting Rights Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act to offer the right to all women to vote, regardless of ethnicity, disability status, and race.

What does this mean?

It practically means that women were always seen as objects in America. And Kamala Harris is also a person of color.

The 15 thamendment (1870) gave African Americans the right to vote. But that does not mean they were in practice actually allowed to vote as states found ways to keep them away. It was only in 1965 that the Voting Rights Act passed and black voters became a reality.

America was founded on July 4 th, 1776. You do the math to see how long it took until people who were not men or white could vote.

And it takes years for a law to actually bring results and change a population.

The Ku Klux Klan is still active in the US, just saying!

So, if you are wondering why Kamala Harris did not become the President of the United States of America, you find your answer in racism and misogyny.

I do not know if the election was rigged, if votes were not counted, and stuff like that. I do know that Trump got roughly the same number of votes than when he lost against Biden. This means 70 MILLION people in the US chose a convicted felon over obviously the better candidate for the country. You cannot blame that on cheating. Tens of millions of people actually voted for him.

How?

There are people who will disagree with me but there are some very important things that have to be highlighted when it comes to the HOW question. Let’s quickly go through them.

Fear

Trump created a lot of fear in the country. Fear that immigrants are going to rape women, eat dogs, and so much more. When people are afraid, they will look for a savior. And he presented himself as a savior. “I will deport them all!” He cannot do that but he said he will. “I will build a wall!” He did not do that but he said he will.

Fear is also a big factor as to why women ended up voting so much for Trump. There is this stupid belief that “it will happen to them, not me”. Well, this, combined with the education factor mentioned below, leads to a situation in which women do not realize that a pregnancy can always turn out to be bad. And that pregnancy could lead to her dying since she cannot get the abortion.

Education

The educated people, in vast majority, will NEVER vote for Trump. Unless they have some reasons for doing it, like the very rich who were promised tax deductions.

America has a huge education problem. The official narrative is that Americans are smart and their education is the best in the world. In reality, it is one of the worst.

Economists scream as loud as they can that Trump’s proposed tax cuts will make the rich richer and the poor poorer. They explain why and how. But Trump says that will not happen and people believe him because they are simply not educated enough.

When you keep people uneducated, it is so much easier to control them. You can tell them anything and as long as you do it in a convincing way, they will believe it. They just do not know better.

America needs to invest in education. Uneducated people are easier to control, but the entire country ends up suffering. Who cares as long as the rich are richer? Right?

Social Media

Elon Musk bought Twitter and used it as a platform to help Trump get re-elected. Only the uneducated (as mentioned before) cannot see that. You might wonder how and why though.

Social media manages to capture a very important segment for Republicans: young men. Musk allowed all the right wing, misogynists, killers, conspiracy theorists, everyone like that back on the platform. And the truth is that we do not really have loud counterparts on the side of the truth and actual reason.

People keep saying that young adults are easily influenced. Yes that is correct. And by promoting figures like Andrew Tate and Charlie Kirk constantly, putting their videos in front of the young adults, you eventually convince them. And, once again, education is poor.

So, social media was very helpful in creating a generation of misogynists. Young adults who despise women and see them as property. Then we have Podcasts, Kick, and so on. Few good options are available for the left. Very few compared to the hate-driven podcasts and videos of the right.

Any Good News?

Theoretically yes, practically we shall see!

I could talk about several other things but I feel like we need to also find some light during these dark times. So until we actually see Trump do something disgusting, which he will surely do, let’s think about some things.

Trump lies, lied, and always will lie. His promises mean nothing. Will he deport all illegal immigrants? He cannot really do that. These immigrants are a huge part of US economy, which includes the rich billionaires he responds to.

Most likely, Trump only cares about not going to jail. I doubt he cares about anything else. It is clear he does not care about his family or friends. In fact, he has no friends. And he is controlled by the fact that he only has debt, no real money.

Also, it is quite impossible to deport all illegal immigrants fast. It would require serious resources and can lead to many problems. It is a process that would have to be properly handled. Also, Trump already broke his first promise. He said he will stop the war in Ukraine in the first day after being elected, a thing that is obviously impossible since he cannot do anything until he is sworn in.

I should also add there are states that are still fighting and that will keep fighting his rule. Even if Trump will try to do things, there will be some sort of opposition.

I am hopeful Trump will not do much because he simply does not do anything every single day. He just wants to gloat and golf.

But, we have to be realistic. He will do something bad. He will negatively affect the economy. The dollar will lose its power. And poor people will suffer. We will have to see what will happen but at least it is sure that we do not have to take everything he said at face value. And there is a pretty good possibility he will get so sick that he will not even be able to finish his term.

Originally published at http://adriancruce.com on November 7, 2024.