Election Postmortem
Election Postmortem
Junious Ricardo Stanton
Now that the election is over and the shock of Trump winning a convincing and decisive victory has sunk in, it’s time to look back to see how this happened and why the Deep State and its lackeys failed to stem the tide of dissatisfaction and angst that was actively percolating in the psyches of so many people. Looking at the election count map the Democrats got walloped, only Harris’ win in states like California and New York with their huge electoral votes staved off an overwhelming landslide.
In many ways this was not just a victory for Donald Trump and I’m no fan of Donald Trump I voted for Jill Stein the Green Party Candidate. From my perspective this is a greater win for the people who rejected the weaponization of the law, the disingenuous tropes about Trump being a Russian asset the blatant deplatforming of a sitting US president by the social media monopolies and by voting for Trump people punched holes in the lies about him being a “threat to democracy” by the party and media who circumvented the direct involvement in the democratic process altogether when they arbitrarily selected Kamala Harris to be their candidate after unceremoniously kicking the senile Joe Biden to the proverbial curb.
The system is set up and rigged so there are no real choices within the two party scheme. Look at how the Democrats repeatedly snuffed out or suppressed potential candidates like Bernie Sanders and Robert Kennedy Jr. Is that true democracy, of course not! It is hypocrisy at its highest and the people realized it and rejected it wholeheartedly.
As for the election postmortem; aside from the blatant hypocrisy of the Democratic Party elites arbitrarily selecting Kamala Harris as their candidate; the lack of any accomplishments the Democrats could cite fatally damaged Kamala Harris because nothing she said could offset the in your face reality people were still trying to recover from the COVID disruptions, they were struggling to cope with the constant rising costs of living, the Biden administrations’ open support of Israeli genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza and Palestine and the fact her administration was sending billions overseas to support a losing effort in Ukraine but did nothing to help Americans suffering the devastation of hurricanes and natural disasters here at home! These issues overwhelmed her and she had no rebuttal for them.
Demographically this was a gender, class, race and ethnicity and ideological election. Kamala Harris lost because she failed to energize all the demographics she needed to win the election: the traditional stalwarts of the Democratic Party, males, especially Black and Latino males and working class folks. She had Black females but like Hillary Clinton she was unable to reach and convince the broad spectrum of white women of all class and socioeconomic levels to vote for her! Whining about sexism is a waste of time because Harris absolutely failed to rally enough females to support her, the numbers don’t lie.
Abortion, reproductive rights and Roe v Wade animus was the main focus of her campaign ads. While these were hot button emotional issues they were not relevant or strong enough to turn the tide, they could not trump (pardon the pun) the visceral issues of: inflation, anxiety driven by an overall view America is heading in the wrong direction and the fact there was major animus against the ruling elites and their depictions of working class people.
The celebrities Harris garnered were not germane because they did not address the concerns of ordinary working class folks. What do billionaires like Oprah Winfrey and multi millionaires like Beyonce, Bruce Springsteen or Taylor Swift know about struggling to make ends meet?! They do not empathize with the day to day struggles or the issues of the urban poor, or suburban and rural folks. Nor could they nor did they articulate any profound solutions to the challenges this nation faces. Plus many of them were tainted by their association with Sean “P Diddy” Combs.
As a former prosecutor Harris lost credibility because she was unable to shake her ties to the “defund the police” movement and mainly her connections to Joe Biden and his policies. She never articulated the ways and means beyond her shallow pandering to various constituencies or elaborated on how she was going to actually do something about rising prices, nor did she provide details on how she was going to structure the tax credits or pay for all the things she was promising.
To critical thinkers she came across as shallow and disingenuous. Joe Biden was an albatross around her neck because he was so unpopular and people resented the fact Harris helped cover up his dementia and declining physical health for three years!
The good news is, the sun came up the next day. The election is behind us and now we have to prepare for another Donald Trump administration. Trump has consistently shown us who and what he is. He’s a blowhard, a bully, a narcissist, a media creation who is not a moral man or a deep thinker. While Trump did not start any new wars while he was president, the fear is he will allow Israel to drag America and possibly the world into a regional or global conflagration.
With the Republicans controlling the White House and both houses of Congress there will be few checks and balances to hinder him and the Democratic Party is in such disarray now, they will not be able to mount formidable or well structured opposition to him. Also most of the court cases Trump is facing may melt away. All the Democrats and Trump haters will be able to do is whine and call him names.
Trump was a pain in the behind for the globalists because he started trade wars with China, Canada, Mexico and the EU that shook and inconvenienced globalization. He challenged the relevancy of NATO, he defunded the World Health Organization and the Deep State is extremely leery of him. Did he drain the swamp the last time? No! Will he drain it this time, I doubt it. There have already been several attempts on his life so time will tell what his actual legacy will be. The Chinese have a saying, “may you live in interesting times”; we are indeed living in interesting times.
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posted by Junious Ricardo Stanton @ 7:46 AM
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