Was the United States ready to elect a black woman as president? They seem to have preferred an incompetent ex-president with fascist leanings, a recognized criminal, who intends to roll back women’s rights and undermine the very foundations of democracy.
Posted at 3:29 a.m.
Updated at 6:00 a.m.
Between a competent vice-president who understands that she must serve the public interest and a Republican candidate who understands nothing and who lies like he breathes, we could have hoped that the only responsible choice would impose itself. to voters.
Instead of allowing Kamala Harris to shatter the ultimate glass ceiling, we brought to power a man who worships dictators and is ready to shatter the bedrock of democracy.
Instead of celebrating a historic victory for women, we are witnessing the historic victory of a fascist who will further undermine their rights.
“A vote for him is a vote against us,” warned Michelle Obama in a poignant end-of-campaign speech in which she addressed men, imploring them not to put the lives and health of women in the hands of politicians like Donald Trump who want to further dismantle reproductive health care in the country.
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Former first lady of the United States Michelle Obama at a Democratic rally in Georgia on October 29
The “us” to which the former first lady was referring is the one made up of half of the American population, whom Trump claims to want to “protect” by deciding for them what is good for them.
We can add that a victory for Trump is a defeat for a much broader “we”, which does not include only women and which is not limited to American borders alone.
We who are outraged at the idea that young American women have fewer rights than their grandmothers and could bleed to death because they are refused an abortion.
We who do not forget that women’s rights are never acquired and that all it takes is a crisis for them to be called into question.
We who are worried about seeing the future of our planet and our children in the hands of engineers of chaos who don’t care.
We who take seriously not only the lives of women, but also the survival of democracy, however imperfect it may be.
We who also took seriously the warning of former number 1 of the American army Mark Milley, who declared that Trump was a “fascist to the core” who must be stopped at all costs.
We who are disgusted by the disturbing outpouring of racist and misogynistic insults favored by Trumpism.
We who know that this toxic climate is leading to a worrying normalization of hate speech here too.
We who do not accept that migrants are demonized and dehumanized to capture the fears and anger of a growing part of the electorate.
We who do not accept that we transform trans people into scapegoats to win votes.
We who were terrified to hear this ex-president who believes that Hitler did “good things” accuse migrants of “poisoning the blood” of the country and promise to organize the largest expulsion in the history of States -United, taking up the racist rhetoric of those who, in another era, attacked “job-stealing Jewish refugees”.
We who are in shock to see that so many Americans can still choose, despite everything, to bring such a dangerous man to power.
We who are plunged into uncertainty during this long election night, but who remain certain of one thing: the United States does not seem any closer to emerging from the chaos.
