Who Lives and Who Dies?
11 November 2020 (Wall Street International)* — I am writing this article a few days prior to the American presidential election. By the time you read these words, that very same election will one way or the other be history. Surely, no matter the outcome, it will be the subject of extreme contention. We Americans can anticipate the likely intervention of the newly unbalanced Supreme Court.
Perhaps more dangerously, it is likely that one faction or the other of this divided nation will take to the streets in protest. Such a protest will inevitably not be peaceful, given the forces at play in 2020.
We Americans have been assaulted, lied to and endangered in this last year. The criminal deception did not begin this year, but it reached an apex with the presidential incapacity to handle the pandemic. He struts, lies and fantasizes in public.
He conducts an effective hypnotic induction, while Covid continues unchecked throughout the country, killing and damaging so much in its path. An incompetent and dangerous president has continued to govern by virtue of his own psychopathology, every day spent denying reality and instead courting popularity.
We the people are exhausted. We are disillusioned. We are terrified of what is to come. Nevertheless, we rise to the occasion of one last battle to retrieve our country from the hands of a madman. We are voting in unprecedented numbers, many of us spending hours in line to exercise the privilege and right. You know the outcome as you read this article. As I write, I do not.
AJ 
