It’s midweek again, only days away from the end of October, less than a week away from the American election, yet nothing in the world is right as governments squander chances in the fight against coronavirus. Let’s see what has been said and done since yesterday.
As both presidential candidates head in to the final week of campaigning neither one is guaranteed of success which was proven in 2016 when Trump beat Hilary Clinton whose polls said she was a shoe in for the lands top job. But this time round Americans are angry at its leader running for re-election. While Trump sits high on the hill in safety the rest of America is in the midst of a deadly pandemic which has killed 230,000 people and multiple cities nationwide are under civil unrest, clearly aimed at Trump’s backing of police impunity laws after multiple cases of racial tension between law enforcement and the black community resulting in highly publicised police brutality and civilian deaths this year alone. Trump is up against not only the Democrats, but the Black communities, the Hispanic communities, the immigrant communities, the LGBTQ+ community and those communities just sick of his ‘BS’ and lies. The biggest problem with America though and what actually benefits Trump’s campaign for re-election are those individuals which includes some very well-known celebrities who for some reason believe in his ideology. Trump still has a strong following of gun nuts, racists, misogamists, bible bashers, far right militias and the one percenters who benefit from the tax cuts implemented for big business. So the race to Whitehouse is far from cut and dry. In the last week it has been seen that long serving Republican politicians are the driving force behind Trump because he gives them what they want a puppet who says the words they dare not say in case they lose their house or senate seat.
Just two days ago, yet another far right conservative judge was sworn in to the Supreme Court giving the Republican party a six to three majority on the bench of the highest court in the land which Senate majority leader McConnell said was a political ally for the Republican party breaching the impartiality of the court for decades to come which was a victory for Trump. But on the flipside which goes against Trump is the fresh batch of civil unrest protests that have happened. Another death and another city has exploded in to violence as protesters took to the streets of Philadelphia two nights in a row, in response to yet another senseless black person’s unnecessary death at the hands of overzealous police who are getting away with murder. The murder of people on the streets of America is nothing new, what is new though is the number of times these incidents are now being captured digitally by bystanders and uploaded to social media. What goes against Trump is the way he continues to stand behind the police calling any protests an attack on democracy and blaming ANTIFA, when in fact the right to protest is a fundamental civil right and a key part of a democratic society. What Trump would do if allowed is mobilise the armed forces to take back the streets which is how a dictator runs a country, not a democratically elected leader, but that is exactly what Trump wants to be! A dictator who rules for life.
So as America enters the countdown to the end of election fever, they do need to be ready for a war whether it be in the courts or on the streets. If there is no big landslide to ‘BLUE’ and Biden wins by a slim margin Trump will try and win it in the courts which he now controls and if Trump wins in the courts there is the likelihood of an all-out civil war as America implodes under the cult leadership of Trump. Speaking of cult leaders, as one sits in the Whitehouse and is revered by millions, another is now set to languish in a jail cell for 120 years. Trump has been linked to the likes of Epstein and Maxwell, but still walks free, while the notorious ‘Nxivm’ leader Keith Raniere has been sentenced to 120 years in prison for racketeering, sex trafficking, child pornography possession and other crimes. Are they so different? You the people ask yourself that question!
On a much lighter note the Trump campaign website was hacked and the hacker left an amusing message which read ‘the world has had enough’. Trump may be surrounded by highly visible bodyguards, but if someone wants to get to you they will. If Trump wanted to stay liked by the idiots who watched his misogynistic reality TV show or the idiots that saw him as a successful business man, he should have stayed out of politics because the world now knows he is a flailing old age pensioner not fit to be admired. If he wanted his affairs to be hidden from public view and his finances not to become public knowledge he should have stayed a business man cocooned and surrendered by his ‘YES’ people and not looked for notoriety in the public domain. Privacy is no longer an option in this day and age, and corruption will be found even when hidden by the best.
On that note I will skip over to dear old Blighty to see what midweek has brought us poor souls downtrodden by the Tory led government. So as we enter the festive season month’s people are been told what they can or can’t do regarding parties and social gatherings by an authoritarian government set to look at further restrictions due to their ineptitude to control the spread of the pandemic. Even during the two world wars people where never told they couldn’t socialise with friends and family, yet this government sees itself above commoners and nobles alike dictating to us how we can celebrate Halloween, Guy Fawkes Night, Armistice, Christmas and the New Year. I understand the need for compromise in difficult times, but this Tory cabinet under the leadership of Johnson is too authoritarian, non-diplomatic and non-democratic forcing new laws through without consultation. The worrying facts are that the virus is showing no likelihood of disappearing anytime soon and the government has no solid answer to how we as a combined nation will defeat it as the Coronavirus vaccine taskforce chair has stated that the first COVID vaccines are “likely to be imperfect” and “might not prevent infection”. So where does that leave us?
As a single person without family to see during the Christmas period, such trivialities don’t really concern me, but I do feel for those people with big extended families who get together to celebrate the festive season and will no doubt suffer mentally if their usual plans are scuppered by a government who will more than likely break their own rules as has been witnessed countless times over the past nine months. I have said it over and over, what is needed is a coalition of parties to bring together different thinking and troubleshooting on actions required rather than being controlled by one dictatorial madman and his acolytes. Also the present cabinet is too far removed from reality on the streets of the United Kingdom and we need more parliamentary ministers who have pulled themselves up by their bootstraps giving them a better insight to the stresses and impoverished strains of living hand to mouth rather than fed by a silver spoon.
The issue of governments of the past was stated quite eloquently by an actor recently who state his one rant about lockdown is that “we must learn now that the people who went to Eton can't run this country. They've done it, they've tried to do it and this little small group who all went to the same school in the same class, it doesn't work. So I feel we need some working-class people, people who have lived a real life, people that are in touch with what's going on in reality, to maybe come to the front now and start to get involved in how this country is run”. I agree, we need more professionals and celebrities to speak out against the way political leaders are chosen. We are finding more and more of our politicians are young upstarts fresh in to life who know nothing but what they were taught in a classroom without the life skills and experience to be Ministers of Parliament, let alone cabinet ministers or party leaders. These individuals jump straight from school to university to internships to political aides then decide they want to run for a political seat in parliament without even stepping foot in to the world of reality and life that they need to gain the experience, unlike someone who has worked in a non-political profession first and has gained experience before taking the decision to seek political office. That doesn’t mean they couldn’t do a good job someday, but how can a person in their twenties even think they are qualified to be in the shark pool of politics. Don’t get me started on the old boy’s network that currently inhabits the halls of Westminster and Government house, jobs gained through family nepotism or bribes.
The nepotism isn’t just in dear old Blighty, it is globally as families use their wealth and power to insert their off spring in to well-paid powerful positions that will benefit themselves and their friends, but I can only speak for what I read and watch going on in my own country and the United states where nepotism is so well publicised from the Whitehouse down through government and on in to big conglomerate business nationwide. I ask these questions of the world!
- How long are we the people going to allow money linked to power rule our lives?
- When are we going to take back our rights from the rich?
- When are we going to stop the incestuous nepotism of big business and politics?
Rant you tomorrow!
