I could not write an end of year post until now. Like most of the world I was too depressed and too worried until Joe Biden finally took over. Since today is inaguration day, 2020 has officially ended for me. Donald Trump was the president that made madness something permitted and applauded in the highest office -- that of president of the United States of America. He became a symbol of power in spite of all faults and a representative of a form of fake democracy, where "the educated ones" blame "the people who chose him" for all the mistakes of the new regime.
2020 was the year that showed what a bunch of incompetent presidents and politicians can do in the name of a virus. It is also the year of Brexit that might mean the end of the European Union and the beginning of madness in Europe. Brexit was facciliated by Boris Johnson -- the UK's version of Trump. Angela Merkel -- the peacekeeper of Europe -- promises to retire in 2021, and perhaps be replaced by another Trump-like person.
People always look for culprits and it's so easy to blame the elderly and the uneducated who aparently vote in all these elections that come out so shockingly close, and ruin the future. The closeness in results does not seem to depend on how different the candidates are. Such an election happened in 2000 as well. Bush went on to be president for 8 long years that deepened the climate crisis, and plunged the middle East into a war that is not yet over. In 2016, Trump won the election against Hillary Clinton in spite of all he said. It is claimed that his jargon where he talked about the size of his private parts and of grabing women by their private parts helped. It appealed to the masses they said. Yet, we have not pardoned Julian Assange -- there "no means no" and using women as weapons is a symbol of feminism. The UK lost many tens of millons of pounds guarding him, and his mistreatment continues. Any price seems to be worth paying to continue corruption at world-level and to plunge the world into hell vs. build a transparent political system, which seemes to be what Julian hoped for. In the meantime, politicians have partly moved on from destroying the middle East, and now help plunge Hong Kong and other parts of Asia into hell. Britain takes refugees from Hong Kong. They are high quality and will help the economy after Brexit.
On a personal level, I have not had major problems in 2020 once David moved on to CA to be with his mom. We miss him dearly, and when Edward enters the room wearing his clothes, I always seem to see David first and then realize it's Edward. However, it's all for the best. The first child I helped raise could not handle lock-down + no sport and online school. We did not have the strength or enough time and resources to help him through. He had long stopped listening to me or my mom. Movies and the online medium became more attractive than anything else. The fact that he crossed the world alone in the middle of a pandemic shows strength (only US citizens can enter America nowadays), and I hope that this strength together with the love and care he receives from his mother will help him thrive.
Like David and I wrote in May, perhaps 2020 was the year internet fought with oil and won. What will be the future after Pandora's box has been opened once again? I don't know. But I hope Biden and Harris will bring sanity and replace madness with values that are worth fighting for, and that the world will follow their lead.
Happy 2021 everyone!
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