The day Donald Trump was elected I wrote a post that began “ What should we tell our children about Donald Trump? That to lie and cheat is the only way to get on in life?”
It was a comment that was a met with howls of complaint from the “give him a chance school “ of political naivety.
We all have our flaws and I’m sure Joe Biden has them, but I find it interesting that Trump targeted him with a smear campaign even while the Democrat candidates were still being selected. It is as if his campaign strategists had worked out at that early stage that Biden was the one they needed to eliminate .
I don’t pretend to understand American politics or why a 77 year old white male made it through the Democrat selection process and a bitter Election battle to become the President – Elect of such a diverse nation.
However the little I do know from reading something of his personal background suggests he is someone who has had life experiences that have given him the kind of empathy that may help him re-unite the divided States of America.
Shortly after he became a Senator in 1972 ( at the age of 29) his first wife Neilia and infant daughter were killed in a car accident, and his two sons were seriously injured. In 2015 his eldest son, Beau, died from brain cancer.
So when Biden speaks about the many who have died and are suffering from Covid 19 in his country, he does so with an empathy that Trump did not have, does not have, and will never have.
And in that there is some hope for a better America and a safer world.
Bryan Bruce is one of NZs most respected documentary makers and public intellectuals who has tirelessly exposed NZs neoliberal economic settings as the main cause for social issues.
The nightmare is not over yet.
The Atlantic lays out Trump’s path to victory in every ghastly detail.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/what-if-trump-refuses-concede/616424/
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