Votes are still being counted but the results appear to favor former Vice President Joe Biden, who stands to be the 46th President of the United States. Less than a week after Election Day, Biden, along with his supporters, are calling on the country to come together as one nation, to work together and put the animosity behind us and recognize that we are all Americans.
Social media has been filled with posts and pictures of Biden supporters hugging and congratulating each other. Signs on front lawns are saying we are all Americans and the time has come to put our differences aside and to work and live together again.
People voted for change again and they got it. The past two elections will have resulted in a transfer of power. Granted, the last came because President Barack Obama had served two terms. The most allowed under the Constitution. Those who were ready to welcome a new leader took to the streets with fists raised when they saw the results were not what they had expected or hoped.
Donald Trump's presidency was met with angry cries, destruction of private property, chants of, "Not My President!" These people who shouted down political opponents, who trespassed on private property and stole or vandalized signs supporting President Trump, now want these people who suffered loss of property to come together and stand with them in unity; To show the world we truly are a united nation.
It's one thing to be upset when you lose something. Everyone has lost and everyone gets upset. But to stand in the middle of the street and prevent people from getting to work, to school, to prevent people from taking their children to a doctor's appointment because you don't like how an election turned out, and then expect the other side to show class and grace now that you finally get a result you like; That is the apex of hypocrisy.
But Trump was never president to begin with. He LOST. Hillary Clinton got more votes than Donald Trump.
Hillary Clinton got more of the popular vote. Donald Trump received more electoral votes. The electoral votes decide the White House, and people knew that all along. It's been the same way for every Presidential Election. Now that the system didn't favor your candidate, you want to change the rules?
Of course you do. And while people waited for the rules to change, they protested. Not in the sense of assembling peacefully, making speeches and listening to what was said. No. Instead, people burned things down, looted stores, shouted profanities at Trump and his "racist" supporters. People sought to post disparaging pictures, memes, and other derogatory messages about trump on every social media platform so much, so often, I wonder what these people were accomplishing at work and at home.
But now we need to come together. Like a little child who finally got the toy or gift they wanted and is loving and tenderhearted toward their parents after throwing a fit in the middle of the store, the same people who shouted and spit at people who supported their candidate's opponent want everyone to come together. Those who ripped hats of individual's heads, those who stood in the middle of the street and smashed windows of oncoming cars who refused to stop while you tried to block them because you didn't get your way now want their opponents to meet them in the middle and join arm in arm to celebrate the one thing we have in common: Being Americans.
Before all of this happens, maybe you should check the mirror.
Or, even better, your cell phones and Internet History.
