The Parade of Cowards Hurting America

Cowardice is what has created the situation we currently find ourselves in.

Joe Biden and the Dems were cowards for not strongly, actively, aggressively pursuing everyone that was involved with the January insurrection, and all the can-kicking led to a mediocre justice department, far too little progress in investigating the crimes, and it led to Trump being able to run again for president and winning.

Joe Biden himself was a coward for changing the damn rules to give South Carolina the opening in the primaries that way there was no chance whatsoever at a wild upset while seeking re-election. And don’t get me started on the Israel genocide, that cowardly behavior during the atrocities will be his legacy forever and always.

Chuck Schumer was a coward for not pushing Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Simena harder to pass actual legislation, letting them run around in circles and do their media campaigns while obstructing a wide variety of legislation that would actually help us.

The Supreme Court members are cowards for fully knowing what Trump has been trying to do for years, but letting it happen regardless for financial, political, and personal gain.

The Republican Party is full of cowards who are fully aware of the dangers related to the MAGA cult and a second Trump presidency, but everyone has bent the knee and has allowed for the takeover to happen and have allowed to bury the people they represent in order to appease billionaires.

The newsmedia are full of cowards who spent years trying to normalize the words, rhetoric, behavior, aggression, ideas, and beliefs of Donald Trump and the MAGA cult. They chased the ratings instead of the truth, avoided ruffling feathers by challenging falsehoods, and as a result we have seen more misinformation and distrust than ever before, and the lackluster, mediocre, and toothless titans of the media within the United States deserves a massive share of the blame.

The United States voting block were cowards for not pushing hard enough against the obviously awful candidate and letting him waltz his way back into the White House despite the lawsuits, despite being a felon, despite being found by a jury that he sexually assaulted at least one woman, despite his racist rhetoric, despite his inability to last a week without causing controversy and stupid chaos, despite stealing from charities, despite having a preference for dictators, and despite his obvious disdain and lack of respect towards anyone that isn’t kissing his feet.

Yes, the Democratic Party is a mess, but deep down we all know Kamala Harris was the better option.

And yes, some of this cowardice is related to many voting against their own self-interests simply because the better candidate is a Black Woman. Six MILLION votes disappeared from Biden to Kamala, how?!? Voter turnout dropped nearly 3% despite the dangers presented?

Arguably worst of all, these billionaires are all cowards for not wanting to stand toe-to-toe against Trump and the MAGA cult, and therefore have all decided to lower the quality of their own products just to appeal to the orange clown who is about to become president for the foreseeable future. Twitter is a cesspool, several publications yanked their endorsement of Kamala Harris just to not anger the opponent, and Meta has also eliminated their fact-checkers just because the truth usually doesn’t align with the volumes of falsehoods you can find from the psychotic far-right base. Bezos, Musk, Zuckerberg are all wimpy gimpy cowards who have done irreversible damage to the country that literally gave them the unlimited wealth they didn’t earn and don’t actually deserve.

Cowardice has allowed for the bullies and the worst people imaginable to pretty much take over the United States government by February and we’ll essentially be at the mercy of their hate brigade and at the mercy of whatever vengeance they plan on enforcing. They are prepared to attack the LGBTQ community through the Supreme Court, attack dissenters and opponents through the destruction of social media safeguards, will attack basic essentials that the lower classes are entitled to like health care and good public education.

What really complicates this subject for me is, what about us today? What about now?

Now that the dust has settled and the battle lines are clearly being drawn, are we cowards for letting this continue?

Are we cowards for still giving them money?

Are we cowards for still using Facebook, Twitter, Threads, etc.?

Are we cowards for still helping financially support all the companies, businesses, and psychos that have used their money to influence elections and continue making them richer? Do we have some sort of responsibility to interject with our dollars? And just how much protesting and stonewalling is the right amount?

Am I also contributing to the cowardice by still shopping in say Publix as opposed to local bodegas? If I still have an Instagram, am I part of the problem?

This has been my internal struggle as I cope with what we’re about to face.

It’s an uphill battle and I’m not sure there will be many opportunities to actually fight back, to actually make it hurt. And I had written about how with our money and our collective strength we can definitely wage war on the rich man’s economy and try to harm it, but we’re already a population on the struggle bus, barely trying to stay afloat, so at the end of the day it might be a tall ask to simultaneously try to survive America while fighting America’s worst humans. I so badly want to dish out punishment for the ongoing devolution of the United States, but I know I can’t do it alone, and I know that it will become increasingly difficult to find others willing to take on the task.

It feels powerless, it feels like cowardice, even if my fight is a pointless one unless there are more soldiers behind me. But its all frustrating because we elected people to do battle for us, we elected people to do the necessary work to prevent these kinds of things from happening. And they failed us, and now we have an incoming presidency stupidly discussing annexing Canada and Greenland, and potentially by force for stupid reasons.

I always revert back to the famous quote from The Boondocks, as the main character struggles to create the changes he wants to see in the world around him, and he asks his grandfather a question:

“What do you do when you can’t do nothing, but there’s nothing you can do?”

Without much hesitation, because his Black grandfather has seen the worst of what the United States can bring to vulnerable communities, he replies simply with:

“You do what you can.”

To be honest, it’s the right approach, even if it doesn’t feel like its enough.

A part of me feels cowardly, even if the facts state that it’s the cowardice of the privileged and the elected that has caused the damage, not someone like me. History has also shown that the United States was quite literally founded on cowardice, as the Founding Fathers wrote all these documents demanding better rights for the colonies and the people living amongst them, demanding independence and proper individual representation, wrote about liberty and justice for all------but were not brave enough to also suggest freeing the Black slaves they owned. Liberty for me but not for thee. And of course, we can’t forget about how the Native Americans were also not part of that equation.

So maybe a country founded by cowards is doomed to always be run by cowards, and maybe these sins cannot be placed on the common folk who predominantly believe in liberty and justice for ALL, regardless of skin color and orientation.

History is always full of twists and turns, and maybe we’ll see some wild changes emerge within the chaos and we can finally start turning things around (just look at how fast things unfolded in Syria recently). Or, we’re just going to continue seeing the United States deteriorate towards a third-world country with first-world wealth. But either way, harsh fate will be met with frustrated resistance, will be met with millions upon millions of people desiring more, desiring better, and knowing that the richest country in the history of the world is capable of so much more than what it has become to the vast majority of her residents.

So if the country I live in was founded by cowards (and needed nearly a CENTURY after its foundation to finally allow Black men and women to be free), if I helped elect people who later became cowards when the situation became dire, and if there is no ethical consumption under America’s extreme capitalism, then maybe the only cowardly move for someone like myself is to stop living my life and stop fighting.

So the fight shall continue, and time will tell how many will remain battling in the trenches for the next few years. But no more Threads.