Losing with Dignity
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Facing the Music
Can any non-Trump supporter really say that they are surprised that Trump would not concede the 2020 election to Joe Biden? This is a man who cries “fake news” every time a story that paints him in an unfavourable light is published. This is a man who calls members of the media “a disgrace” when they ask him a question that he’s not prepared to answer or doesn’t want to answer. It’s no surprise that this is a man who refuses to lose with dignity, or concede to losing an election that was a little too close for comfort.
So of course the election must be rigged because Trump didn’t win. That’s the only possible explanation for everything that’s going on in America right now. Trump lost and he’ll have to face the music for the catastrophic damage he’s done over the past four years, and he doesn’t want to. I wouldn’t want to deal with the consequences either. The thing that gets me is this: he knows that there will be consequences. That’s why he’s fighting so aggressively and creating so many lawsuits out of thin air to keep the Presidency. He knows he’s screwed without it. But if he knew that there would be consequences for his actions, then he must have known that his actions were wrong.
Transition of Power
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With Trump’s refusal to concede, he is also barring a smooth transition of power. Note that a smooth transition was established by Barack Obama so Donald Trump could transition into the White House smoothly, and Joe Biden himself made sure there was a smooth transition process so Mike Pence could take his place. All of my sources say that this has been the norm for decades. That is, until Trump took office. Once again, Donald Trump has shown the world that he is fine with going against tradition to get his way. If he does get his way - he won’t - then there would be no end to his gloating and celebrating just to remind us all that he’s not going anywhere.
This is probably not going to be the outcome. The votes have been counted, and the fact that Trump actually wanted votes to continue in some states while he wanted the voting to be stopped in others with no evidence tells me that he’s grasping at straws at this point. Even Trump himself must know on some level that you cannot pick and choose which states get to have their votes counted and which ones don’t. Elections have never worked like this in America before. Proper Democracy has never worked like that before.
A New Beginning
Whether or not Trump wants to keep any shred of dignity he has left and concede that he lost the vote with grace, he is no longer the President after January 20th. This is when America can truly begin to heal. Even if Democrats don’t win the Senate in the runoff election in January, they still have the House and the Presidency.
But even if the dark clouds are clearing, scars from this time of America’s history will always remain. The Senate has a 6-3 majority, with the overwhelmingly unfair nomination that was Amy Coney Barrett, who is now sitting on the Supreme Court; America’s relationships with other countries are forever altered at best and completely destroyed at worst and America will be the butt of the joke for years thanks to Trump’s total disregard for everything except himself. By not conceding, Trump is only further establishing his legacy of having no integrity, no dignity, and will always be known for his cheap, underhanded way of getting things “done”.
Garrett Forsyth
Garrett considers himself to be an average Joe who writes, plays video games, is an avid lover of The Golden Girls, and sleeps way too much. He also watches anime, and aspires to become a cat lady before the next apocalypse. He hates people who are misogynistic, racist, homophobic, and trans-phobic, people who wake him up too early, and things that smell bad.
