Finally the day of reckoning, or maybe the day of reflecting, is here; Tuesday, November 5, 2024.
Take that comedian’s reference of Puerto Rico at the Madison Square Garden trump rally mentioning the place as “a floating island of garbage” or something like that. Yes even for us who are so far away physically and perhaps mostly not so well attached mentally with people over there it was difficult to find the joke any humorous. But they say the guy was always like that and there was no reason to make so hot an issue out of it. Yes, it didn’t go well with many. But this one of the most off-the-mark and highly charged election of all time and every word was up for the closest scrutiny.
Look I personally think that all those of us around this part of the globe ought to do is follow what all sides say and just keep up with the flow of the whole thing without being judgmental. Because there probably is much more that is not being said in spite of all the stuff out in the open. However nice we can be we couldn’t say that there aren’t any behind the curtain things in all this. Time for taking a stand here! There definitely are. Politics has taken so many turns and twists, even in the American elections there appears to be some subtle foreign meddling, attempted or set in motion. And even within the members of the two political parties’ blood what is running is probably not only over what we’re hearing and watching even American voters aren’t expected to know.
However we back here trying to make sense of the whole thing couldn’t keep ourselves from asking questions. Yes, the narratives sound like maybe these people know the final hour a has arrived and make to make their marks in ways they want before it’s too late. Why are they calling it the most consequential election of all time? Is it because of the two candidates and those behind them or is it because of the issues?
The personal attacks, the accusations, the assumptions, the conspiracy theories and the like are … like in most elections. But this time things have gone over many edges so much so that man rescue efforts don’t seem to make any impact. Take for example the recent allegations of President Joe Biden calling Trump’s supporters “Garbage.” Marco Rubio performed some of the most interesting reality show when he jumps while the former president was addressing a rally and telling the audience that Joe Biden has just called them garbage. But Biden’s supports weren’t to take that sitting down. They immediately go into counterattack mode and that is where the narrative of the apostrophe came. Though it sounds the only out it was one good defensive tactic. Kamala played the perfect politician here when she refrained from denouncing her boss’s comments that she was going to be president for all Americans whether they voted for her or not.
But why is the democratic candidate fixated on the name Donald Trump? “Was it a campaign strategy formulated by her advisers or does she just have so much hate and lodging for the man and couldn’t …her emotions. In almost every speech the name Donald Trump seems to be taking much of the time. Indeed her narratives concerning Trump are filled with so much negativity her claim of working o bring Americans together seems to be largely falling on the wayside. Even the target of her one-man carpet bombing says that she talks of unity and in the next sentence she calls him a fascist. But then she wouldn’t have done t for nothing unless it was part of the strategy to scare the hell out of everybody forcing them to imagine what a ‘fascist’ trump would do to the once he gets the presidency.
We have mentioned the American media few times before. And while we’ve no research on anything to support the claim there was a time when the true face of the American media was revealed as clearly as it is. Even for us ‘spectators’ of the whole drama take CNN and Fox News. They sounded as if they were the communication and propaganda departments of the two parties! I’m not exaggerating. They don’t even give the benefit of the doubt where due and just go on blasting the other side. One thing is sure many of the journalist in these two places and scores of other media outlets don’t seem to have no deeper than skin-deep knowledge of the whole thing. At times they sound so foolishly bizarre!
I had these repeated lengthy discussions with a relative of mine over there who having gone there almost two decades back was the supporter of one party. But this time he tells me he is confused how to vote. He wraps the whole thing with, “What I’m having it hard to understand is that how America ended up with these two candidates?”
Then comes the issue of Donald Trump first as fascist and then upping it to “Hitler!” And I texted a fellow I know residing in the Big Apple asking him what were the practical examples enough to convince people that he was really a fascist. He says, “None!” And he’d vote for Harris if only to stay loyal to his long-time party.
A Glen Beck latest video is titled, “Why You Must Prepare for the Left’s CHAOS If Trump Wins.” The implication seems to be if you have to fear anyone, fear the democrats.
One report says “A refusal by Trump to accept a victory by Democratic rival Kamala Harris could throw the United States into political instability at a time when the country is already deeply divided.” Another one goes, “Discussion of violence among right-wing extremists has already spiked online, and unlike Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump has refused to say that he would concede.” By the way it’s the vice president herself who would have to certify the results.”
The civil disobedience fear comes from trumps supporters. To be fair there hasn’t been much talk of violence from the Harris fans. They say a recent poll was taken on the issue and 69% of those polled said Trump wouldn’t concede defeat while 73% said Kamala Harris would concede. Donald Trump himself is quoted as having said back in September, “If I lose – I’ll tell you what, it’s possible; because they cheat.
That’s the only way we’re gonna lose, because they cheat,” One flag waving elderly trump supporter was asked if there’ll be a January 6 again in the event of Trump defeat. She says, “No. There’d be civil war.” In another video a burly giant of a man says that they were armed and if Trump loses there would be a revolution. My friend says that was the one thing he was really worried about. He says,” After Election Day Americans forget everything about the whole thing and life continues. I don’t think that would be the case this time around.”
BY EPHREM ENDALE
The Ethiopian Herald November 3/2024