This Is My County: Thoughts After The 2024 Election

         This is my country, where a majority of the population voted into power a 78-year-old criminal convicted on 32 felonies and charged with theft of federal records, election fraud, and election interference, among  other charges. 

         My fellow Americans resounding handed the Presidency of the United States to a man who tried to overthrow the last election and orchestrated the violent January 6, 2021 attack on the United States Capitol.

     This septuagenarian who's close to eighty and who talks incessantly about himself and his grievances, who spouts vile nonsense, lies, or violent rhetoric every time he opens his mouth and who is in league with foreign dictators and domestic white supremacists; this power-crazy old man who has threatened to use the Presidency  and the Justice Department to bring vengeance against those who've crossed him; this immoral, filthy old man with a history of gross sex abuse; this is the person a majority of Americans chose to be President of the United States.
        They chose him over a competent, capable, experienced woman of color who was part of the administration that rescued the country from potential economic disaster from the COVID epidemic, oversaw record job creation, passed the badly needed infrastructure bill, passed the CHIPS act to boost U.S. production of semiconductors, and created a meaningful immigration bill that could have been passed in the next administration.
       However, Americans have instead voted in a vile tyrant supposedly for his cotton candy promises to bring down the prices of groceries and everything else to what they were five years ago before the pandemic hit. Educated Americans, well-off Americans, good, bright Americans who should know better, my neighbors, my relatives, all these people voted into the White House a foul old criminal who should be in prison. And who may well transform our democracy into an autocracy.
          And this is my country. Which has me wondering: what in the world country do I live in, anyway?