The Don is gone.

 

The Don is gone.

Through my window, I watched the Turtle Mountain. Slowly little snowflakes started their way down towards the yet green lawn until all was a blur. Slowly turning my gaze to the computer, I noticed breaking news. For the last few days, people in the US were counting ballots and nothing changed. They were stuck at the same numbers of electoral college votes. The President raged that they should stop the counting where he was losing and count harder where he expected to win. If he didn’t win, he said, the election would be viewed as stolen from him. First, he said that he won and as more votes were counted his win, like the mountain, became blurry.

Now four days later a new president is elected. The country and the world are celebrating. I must admit that I wasn’t expecting a worldwide celebration. Surfing through websites, I realized that this may be one of the occasions when the earth exhibits a measurable increase in human happiness. Some scientists measure this kind of phenomenon. How can one man scare so many people for so long? As the US president, he can destroy the world.

I go back a few years to explain my feelings. I remember a reality show named “The Apprentice.” I never watched it, but I remember the host who later became president going through a room full of people saying to some “you are fired.” At the time I wondered if the rich b----- knew what it meant for people to lose their livelihood, but it was just a show. Later I learned a lot more about that person, how he abused women, fired his friends, cheated on his taxes and so much more. Here was a master who could play on people’s evil, selfish emotions, fears, and hate better than anyone.

Evil people from history look like characters from stories, and we expect them to lose by the end. I met many of their victims. This guy looked as if there will be no end to his story. In a short time, he changed the greatest country and the world to his benefit and made people forget what we used to know as morals, values, and honour.

I remember him treating people like garbage, threatening with violence, calling his ex-girlfriends ugly, pushing heads of states out of his way, and so much more. It puzzled me how come he is not concerned with the next election, but he wasn’t. He was bred and raised to lie, bribe, and cheat so convincingly that he always got away with it according to his niece Mary Trump.

The statement I remember most profoundly was “I love the uneducated.” Why would he say that? Looking back now, I understand. Most people are uneducated, and their labour provides the worst liars with power and wealth. They are defenseless, but believe that they are smart. Consequently, those who are not ashamed to take advantage of them do. The uneducated and simple-minded try to please those who exploit them expecting some payback. There is only payback while they can still be used, but they don’t know it.

God, the universe, or Karma as others call him, is never short of ways to destroy our world. A large solar storm, a big volcanic eruption, a meteor, or a tiny virus can do the job. It looks like all of those things happened before. We live by the grace of God under his protection. All of what we know can be gone and a new world can begin again without us. All that we consider beautiful can be gone very fast and something else can take its place. So why are we still here? Why is one evil man able to destroy us?

The ancient writers of our most revered texts pondered that question and came up with conclusions. We are sons and daughters of God, the creator, but can only destroy ourselves slowly. It takes time to build superweapons or use up the atmosphere of the earth. There is time for humans to consider what they do, time for what the bible calls repentance.

We are presently at one of those stages when we must make critical choices, and we just did. It seems like we bought more time to consider what we are doing. New Arms Control treaties will be negotiated, we may change our main energy supply sources and perhaps avoid the destruction that an unknown virus can unleash upon us. I remember a famous line that said, “We live to fight another day.”

Another winter is coming and I expect it to be a long one. People will make a choice if to be alone, untouched, or risk sickness and death. By now, most conspiracy theory believers can see for themselves that there is a real danger even in a mild pandemic such as COVID-19.

People who make a living from oil are witnessing proof that humans are able to change the weather and don’t have many years for a smooth transition to other energy sources. Those who wish to save money on the poor and give it to the rich are waking up to a new reality. The poor seem to have an ally above our immediate reality.

I have been living in the best country in the world and have many more benefits than I ever expected, so I can’t complain. However, there are billions of people who could be much better if selfishness, lying and cheating were better managed. The US latest elections give me hope.

God is not destroying us, only giving us warnings and time to mend our ways. If we win, we will eventually be in his true image. If we lose, well, he will let us hang ourselves. The first step is to get rid of liars and demonstrate love and sharing. After that, the lines get blurry like the contours of Turtle Mountain in a snowfall. We can’t cheat on his tests.

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