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Femi Akomolafe's avatar

Wow🙏

The Debacle called the US Presidential Debate.

First, let’s be reminded of this African saying: To laugh at calamity, deformity or infirmity is enormity.

We do not mock old age in African culture, nor do we denigrate the dead. The reasons should be clear enough for anyone with brains to think: Old age is a privilege to which we all aspire. Regarding death, Biology 101 teaches that no living thing will get out of the world alive; we are all gonna DIE.

No, we do not set out to insult Biden or Trump, but the spectacle of these two ELDERLY citizens being steamrolled into the most powerful office in the world should give grave concerns to any human being who cares about the globe that we all call home. 

It appears that the Deep State, or whatever we choose to call them, have such low contempt for us that they would want us to disbelieve what all our senses tell us, and think that Biden is one independent actor who is capable of making all the ponderous decisions that his office required!

No honest person who has watched Biden in the past year would be surprised to see his abysmal performance at the charade that goes for presidential debates in the US. Of course, Trump was his usual nasty, buffoonish, narcissistic self on his usual ego trip.

The surprise is that Western media rose like a single voice to parrot what should have been obvious to anyone who cares to look; they pretend that Biden’s senility is one Great Revelation!

Yours truly has maintained the position that just as Christians are the worst advertisements for their religion, Westerners are the worst advertisement for the political system that they try to spread across the world with evangelical zeal.

Who in his right mind would opt for a political system that threw up a snarling senile mannequin like Biden and an amoral (not simply immoral) and utterly corrupt and empty-headed braggart like Trump as presidential materials?

One needs only to compare these two unrefined and uncultured cretins that Americans put up as their presidential candidates with refined Statesmen like Presidents Xi and Putin who Western media like to denigrate as autocrats.

Who, in his right mind, would choose Trump over Putin or Biden over Xi?

Our Brother James Balwin said: I don’t believe what you say, because I can see what you do.

Why should we in Africa believe that a people that is capable of putting Biden and Trump as the best candidates for the highest office in their land will help us get the best candidate to lead us?

People with refined cultures choose their words carefully, they do their best never to descend into gutters, especially in their public postures and proclamations. 

Both Biden and Trump swear like drunken sailors. Sorry, sailors!

Read the full article here: https://femiakogun.substack.com/p/the-debacle-called-the-us-presidential?r=3wwyw&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

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J Garbo's avatar

Your essay is pertinent but comes 60 years too late. JFK was your last "elected" president (and even his election was rigged by Dad and the Mafia). Since then the US has openly, for the non-blind, been a fascist oligarchy. The decline is now too obvious to paper over or touch up. The cracks will widen, while we look on, hoping for a lonely disintegration, like Shellye's Ozymandias.

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