"In any discussion of the problems in our world today, racism must rank high. Not because we are soft-minded liberals obsessed with countless crimes throughout history induced by colour, religion, tribalism or chauvinism of one kind or another. But because the poison which we hoped and believed had been eradicated in our own time by the knowledge of the ultimate evil- the gas-chamber murders committed by the Nazis--is in fact still present, not in any one area of discrimination or racism, or in a restricted number of specific rulers or governments, but in all humankind. I call it "Inner Racism."-

Gitta Sereny, "The Healing Wound"

Monday, November 16, 2020

72,000,000

Seventy-two million (of us) voted for a rapist or

Seventy-two million (of us) voted for a child sex-trafficker or

Seventy-two million (of us) voted for a racist con-man; a white supremacist who defends and encourages dangerous conspiracy theories of race-wars and economic carnage or

Seventy-two million (of us) voted for a monster who orders the separation of children from their parents at the gates of our republic in our names so they are lost to one another perhaps for ever or

Seventy-two million (of us) voted for a proven pathological liar or

Seventy-two million (of us) voted for a traitor who has betrayed his oath of office, compromised the national security of our country while he belittles and denigrates the very men and women who swore an oath themselves to protect and even die to maintain this fragile democracy or

Seventy-two million (of us) voted for a cowardly tax cheat who thought nothing of looting his phony non-profit scam of aiding children with cancer while a court ruled he had to return $25 million to the poor suckers who thought he would teach them the secrets of his success or

Seventy-two million (of us) voted for a fool who told us that perhaps if we absorbed or drank bleach we could kill the Coronavirus that's been rampaging through America ( and the world) for eight long months or

Seventy-two million (of us) voted for a mass-murderer who -literally - knew(even he) that the coronavirus was lethal and airborne and was relentless and he did nothing to warn the country-"his" country- or organize a scientific and seriously

cohesive response and instead has done everything to subvert and discredit such an effort and has facilitated himself the spread of this scourge by politicizing and even willfully ignoring the danger and so up to this posting (11/16/20) about 250,000 of our fellow Americans have died because of it or

Seventy-two million (of us) voted for the continued dissolution of our democracy by allowing his enabling party back into power to threaten all our families and enrich only themselves and their unconscionable donors.