THE DAY AMERICA CELEBRATES

THE DAY AMERICA CELEBRATES
Joseph R. Biden, Jr. has been elected the next president of the United States after securing a victory over Donald Trump in his birth-place of Pennsylvania with 20 additional electoral votes crossing the 270 threshold.
By Somkiat Onwimon
8 November 2020

In the evening of 7 November, it was increasingly clear that Joe Biden was on his way to certain victory. Biden led in Navada, Arizona, and even Georgia. He earlier scored surprising wins in Wisconsin, Michigan, and then secured a modest lead in Pennsylvania, the so-called battleground states forming a 'Red Wall' in the north-east . The Red Wall suddenly turned Blue - the great big beautiful Democrat's Blue Wall", built by Joe Biden who made Donald Trump pay for it!
Scenes of joy and jubilations bursted out in cities all over the country. Time Squares in New York, Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, D.C., Streets of Philadelphia, Chicago, Atlanta, and Los Angeles are filled with people singing and dancing in celebrations welcoming their newly elected President Joseph Biden Jr. and Vice President Kamala Harris. The joyful celebrations also projected an air of relief from four years of misrule and trashy politics by Donald Trump, a rude and corrupt man, a racist, misogynist, womaniser, tax evader, and a pathological liar. Joe Biden's victory will end the America the world has watched with bewilderment and a sense of despair, America that was fading from the world stage, let alone the leadership role during the past four years. The new President-elect Joe Biden will build back democracy in America and return American leadership to the world, the role which, in the eyes of the world, had eroded almost to the point of noreturn by the Trump administration and Trump's own unconventional and erratic behavior. Even though Joe Biden has already given an acceptance speech on November 8, soon after the his win in Philadelphia, Donald Trump went out for a round of golf and still refused to concede. The defeated president claimed the election was rigged and he had been robbed of victory. He then instructed his team of lawyers to take his false claims to courts. This untoward behavior does not conform with an unwritten American political tradition in which losing candidate usually calls the winner to offer a congratulation, issues concession statement recognizing the election result, and offers cooperation for the peaceful transition of power. This unfortunate drama is likely to continue till 20 January 2021, the inauguration day in Washington, D.C.

It is expected that Donald Trump will not attend President Joe Biden's inauguration ceremony. He probably will refuse to vacate the White House. If that happens it will be a shameful day in American political history and an indelible mark in Donald Trump's personal life and family record . A 'stable genius', as he perceives himself to be, will probably turn into an 'unstable idiot', a laughing stock of the nation and the world.

The coming of Donald Trump into American political scene for a brief period of four years has done lasting damage to the country in many areas, particularly its reputation worldwide. It will take time to heal and make America the great country it once was before the Trump era. The past four years have, however, been a good lesson in democracy for America and the world. Democracy can go wrong. When the people are misinformed and poorly educated in politics, democracy can be led astray. With over two hundred years of history of grassroots democracy in America, as observed and admired by Alexis de Tocqueville in 1831-32, a great democracy can indeed go wrong. But great democracy will always have a way to correct itself through the people's will in the next election. America's 'next election' to correct democracy gone wrong has just been completed and the people spoke. It is to Joe Biden that the people have given a mandate to redirect things on the right track during the next four years. After 20 January 2021 President Joe Biden will take up a job to make America great again. It is a very tough job considering a dividing country left behind by an arrogant, poorly educated, and a truly bad man. Once an invincible and great democracy, the United States of America has become a divided country and an unrest society. Once a proud leader of the free world, it has become a weak and disengaged power. The reset button has been pushed.

The great American democracy restarts now!

Somkiat Onwimon
Updated 9 November 2020