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No matter who wins the election, we are done waiting for change.
We’re all tuned in to CNN or FOX News waiting for answers. The answers have been in front of our faces for a very long time. No matter who wins the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election, time is up for both parties.
It was on Facebook where an anonymous liberal commenter wrote that socialists, communists, and those leaning to the left of the Democrats were being too impatient about change in the United States. They wrote that we needed more time to make the changes Americans have needed and demanded for decades through several conservative and liberal presidents. We need to be more patient, that’s all.
Apparently, the United States needs more time to finally come up with a decent healthcare system, as if COVID-19 didn’t already make us hyper-aware that our healthcare system is absolutely barbaric. We need more time, I guess, to finally get to a place where this country treats Black people like human beings, ceasing the extrajudicial executions by agents of the state. We need more time to erase the homophobia, ableism, and sexism that made this country so “great” to some. We need to flip senators and congresspeople and it’ll get better.
We need to do this, we need to do that. We need to wait and see; hurry up and wait. Whatever we do, we need to vote, so that we can go back to waiting in blissful pseudo-ignorance for four years, and then four more years after that.
We need to forget that the Democrats gave Donald Trump over $730 billion to create the Space Force when everybody knows that space is a global commons. It belongs to all of us. This was of no concern to either party, however. Liberals had time to give Donald Trump what he wanted in four years. The less privileged and disadvantaged? Well, we just need to give them more time.
We need to forget that it was under President Barack Obama that African-Americans hemorrhaged the wealth they’d worked so hard to accumulate thanks to his policies. These policies further emboldened banks like Wells Fargo who targeted black families they called “mud people” into subprime loans. We need to forget that the rich got richer…
