November 7th, 2020 was the happiest day of the year. All the major news outlets finally declared Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 election, and there was literal dancing in the street. It truly felt like evil had been defeated.
Here is a few Toks that really embrace the mood of the day:
When I first sat down to write this post on goodness and not goodness (evil), the thing that came to mind was my intense disdain for republicans. There is nothing redeeming about the republican party, your (and my) republicans relatives, or anything republicans have stood for since Ronald Reagan.
I could write an entire post to defend my thesis of: Republicans are Evil. Using anything from Ronald Reagan's response to the AIDS epidemic to Trump's Family Seperations at the border. Evil is built in.
But if the opposite of evil is goodness, does that mean Democrats are the party of goodness? No, absolutely not.
Since Joe Biden won the election he has moved slowly back to the center-right on many issues. Like saying he is "unlikely to cancel $50,000 in student debt", or changing his stance on ending family separation on Day One.
While there is definitely evil in American politics (shoutout to republicans), there is no goodness. I see very few with power advocating for reallocating wealth and power. Very few with power believe in ending the carceral state, providing reparations, and land distribution.
I think my point is that now is not the time to stop paying attention. And this is a lesson for me as much as anyone. Since Biden won, my urgent need to know exactly what is happening on the news has significantly lessened. It feels "safe" knowing the "good guy" won. But, that's not the move.
So while November 7th felt like a day of evil ending, we must continue to fight with the same ferocity. Or else, actual evil (Mitch McConnell) has a very real chance of taking back power in 2022.
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