The cull continues. The deaths mount. Do the continuing failures of those who govern America take precedence over the battle with covid-19? Does pestilence allow a time-out for protest? And what of the other three horsemen? Is famine reserved for other parts of our world? Is the war with the police but a minor skirmish of the war to come?
My Bible reading as a child never got as far as the Book of Revelation. I do not know if this is the Apocalypse?
Mr. Trump continues to fortify the white house. The choppers are on alert and make their presence known overhead. The army stays in readiness. They are making the white house the final battleground.
And in the meantime, pestilence rampages unstopped, across an uncoordinated, defiant America.
The only positive we have noted lately is the speech presumptive presidential candidate Joe Biden gave the other day in Philadelphia.
It was a message of hope. It was a presidential speech. It was inclusive, not divisive. While he named Mr. Trump as the problem, he did not over do it. He asked “Is this who we are? Is this who we want to be?
We can only hope that a lot of Americans give those words the thought they deserve.
Biden has a difficult task ahead. He has to use the anger of America as a positive force. He has to get it focussed on the November election.
What America has now seen is that Donald trump is not an instrument of change. He actually imperils America’s future. His promises ill-considered and hollow.
He is a hypocrite and a sociopath, a misogynist and a liar. He endangers world peace. He blames others for his errors. He insults America’s friends and cozies to its enemies. Maybe it is Trump who rides the pale horse.
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