When I was growing up I used to love cartoons. At the time the adult humor and innuendo went right over my head. History has shown that cartoons have a strange way of mimicking real life. As we roll into election day 2020 I am taken back to one of my favorite cartoons, Pinky and the Brain. For those who have no idea what I am talking about it was basically a show about two lab rats. The Brain was the hyper intelligent one who always had a new plan to take over the world. Pinky on the other hand was a dim witted rat who, to be nice, wouldn't remember to breathe if it was not an automatic reflex by his body. So every single show these two mice would attempt to take over the world by one nefarious plot after another only to fail in the end and end up right back in the cage they started in. Funny thing about the cartoon is how much it reminds me of our political system and the hypocrisy of it all.
Every 4 years both parties hatch a plan to advance their candidates into various political offices. With months and months of television advertising, lying, and most of all spending small fortunes these elite people stand atop podiums and tell us how they "know what its like to be us and how they are going to make our lives better" In the end nothing every changes. The rich stay rich while the middle and poor classes grow and shrink. The only thing these politicians do is divide the country into groups and try to tell the group why they need to get their vote. Each side tells their followers that they are the intelligent group of commoners and the other side is the dumb peasants who know nothing. While the black and white nature of these comments is meant to empower their base to get to the polls it only divides and hurts people. Truth is there are intelligent and stupid people in both camps.
There is a reason that Donald Trump won in 2016, people were sick of being treated like pawns in this political game. He represented everything that ran counter to politicians. While being rich he still represented the common man. As that election got closer we saw lifelong politicians on both sides lash out at him and try to destroy his character. But the American people knew what they were getting when they voted him in. We knew he was brash, loud, and a total spectacle to behold. But more than that he was NOT a politician. America came out of the Obama years more divided than ever. So for all of his first term in office the left has made a point to find reasons to impeach him and remove him from office, all of which in the end showed they were the ones guilty of all they tried to hang on him. As we move into election night tomorrow we are seeing the same tactics. Calling him racist, sexist, homophobic, a tyrant and a dictator. All accusations with no evidence. On the other hand the right is claiming Joe Biden is unfit for office as well. The far left has decided to push him across the finish line and then move to radicalize the presidency.
No matter what side you are on if you choose not to educate yourself and dig out the actual facts you will be blindly following The Brain and doing as you are told despite The Brain never following through on his empty promises and plans. I have been thinking a lot the past few days about our future. For decades African Americans have voted almost exclusively Democrat. There are states who have voted Republican or Democrat for decades and some have turned into shit hole states due to those policies. I fear for our future and generations to come. And as I go to bed tonight the last thing I will hear in my mind is this:
Pinky: What are we going to do tomorrow night Brain?
Brain: Same thing we do every night Pinky, TRY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!
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