VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!
In the 2024 presidential election…
Like your life depends upon it…
It does!
What on God’s green earth is happing to America in this 2024 presidential election?! Exactly who is the devil stirring up and why are they spewing such hateful venom? Sure, the devil is going to take his pound of flesh in everything that goes on in this world whether it is politics or anything else that is happening in it; and he does not discriminate. It does not matter to him whether you are a Democrat, Republican, Independent, man, women, boy or girl. It does not matter your hue; Black, White, brown, red, yellow or whatever. It does not matter whether you are Jew or gentile; Agnostic, Atheist, Buddhist, Catholic, or Christan.
This is not meant to imply that God is siding with Democrats and not Republicans or Vice President Kamala Harris and not Donald J. Trump, who claims to be “the chosen one;” I do not presume to know the slightest thing about such a complex subject. It is too lofty for me. But I do know that He is not siding with the devil no matter who is involved! And I broach the subject simply because evangelicals have somehow become all but inextricably entangled in 2024 presidential race politics and so many in their congregations are saying that God is using Trump to accomplish His divine purposes. I will not even venture to express an opinion on whether they are right or wrong to help inform you one way or the other because, again, this subject is too lofty for me.
Still, I will talk about Trump, the electoral college, this tight 2024 presidential race, the coward Republicans, and the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), which is bending over backwards and twisting itself into a political pretzel to help Trump out. I will talk about this to encourage those who still believe that the situation America is in is just politics as usual and we are in no real danger, to reconsider and reassess their conclusions. It is important that all Americans take a real close look at America’s situation because its very democracy is at stake. Under the existing circumstances, Party affiliation should be the least of our concerns and our country must be our primary concern.
There is much to fear in what is happening in America right now but it does not mean that we should be so froze by that fear that it prevents us from functioning mentally. We must not allow it to prevent us from preforming our civic duty, especially when that is what is required to save America; to save our democracy! Leaders of both major political parties have made serious choices that will bring about major changes in how our country will be run going forward. In some cases, the choices one party has made are diametrically opposed to those of the other: and they are tectonic! On one side of the choices argument is those who want America to remain a democracy and on the other is Trump and the Trump-led Republicans who want to remain in power at all costs even if those costs include the American democracy!
Trump has already said that he will be a dictator on day one, that if he is elected people will never need to vote again, and that he does not need any more votes in this 2024 presidential election. Even though Trump is already a felon and is awaiting sentencing in the Hush Money Case against him in New York, is faced with myriad other legal woes, including 34 felony counts still being litigated, the Classified Documents Case against him in Florida, the Election Interference case against him in Washington, the Attorney General Letitia James Civil Case against him in New York, the Anti-Racketeering Case against him in Georgia, the race between him and Vice President Kamala Harris is still very close.
Elected Republicans in many states throughout the country are fighting to make it harder for legitimate voters to vote. Those they appointed to fill key positions to support the elections process are trying to force last minute changes to this process in some states to favor Trump during the state election process and/or clog the system to the point that the states vote count might not reach the electoral college in time to be counted. Although the Georgia Attorney General advised the Election Board not to do this because it is highly likely to be found to be illegal, they made the changes anyway. Though Georgia Governor Briam Kemp agrees with him, neither he nor the attorney general have acted to do anything about it. Under these circumstances, combined with Trump’s statement that he does not need any more votes, it is reasonable for voters to surmise that he intends to win by unfairly manipulating the electoral college votes count.
Based on Trump’s rhetoric during the 2020 presidential race about letting the election of the president go to the Congress for a decision and/or letting that decision be finally decided by the Supreme Court, it seems reasonable to surmise that Congress and the Supreme Court is his backup plan in the event that the unfairly manipulated electoral college plan does not work. Since most of the elected Republicans who are not determined to remain in power at all costs are cowards, a few brave Republicans have spoken up, to surmise that Trump intends to win based on means other than fairly securing the requisite number of votes required to become president is only reinforced.
The American people deserve better! We deserve better than someone who is constantly playing the part of the victim, verbally denigrating America, her institutions, and those who, at great sacrifice, protect America and her people with honor from enemies foreign and domestic. We deserve better than someone who looks upon these great patriots as losers and suckers and refers to himself, obviously only for political purposes, to American women as their protector and to American men and women who support him as their retribution against other Americans.
We deserve better than someone who says they will suspend the Constitution, jail their political enemies, and suggests jailing those who dare to criticize SCOTUS justices. And finally, we deserve a president who will pull Americans together instead of dividing us by continuously spewing words of hate, prejudice, and despair. We need a president who is looking forward to the future and not backwards toward the past. Based on these criteria there is only one choice; Americans need “Kamala Harris-for the people.”
Vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in the 2024 presidential election; every vote is crucial. In the words of Georgia’s Republican former Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan when addressing other Republicans, “Let me be clear to my Republican friends at home: If you vote for Kamala Harris in 2024, you’re not a Democrat, you’re a patriot.” Come on Republicans, you know what is the right thing to do… just do it!
So always remember, whether you are a Democrat, Republican, or Independent, your vote is the most important one of all…unless you don’t use it!
Eulus Dennis – author, M2: Street Cop To Top Cop, Operation Rubik’s Cube and Living Between The Line