Halloween May Be Over. The World’s Nightmare Isn’t.
It’s late in the evening on October 31, and I’m currently lamenting the fact that I didn’t acknowledge the holiday. I didn’t dress up, take anyone trick-or-treating, or attend any Halloween parties. Quite frankly, part of that is because I’m an adult now and can no longer go from door to door begging for candy without getting a lot of strange looks. However, I would like to provide a different reason why I refused to acknowledge Halloween this year.
Forget all those jump-scares like what you’d see in Five Nights At Freddy’s. Quite frankly, the only thing we have to fear is the U.S. election. The fact that we might return to the White House a convicted felon who already tried to overthrow the government to remain in power is horrifying enough. However, that is perhaps not the most alarming result of electing Donald Trump as President of the United States on Tuesday.
As I write this right now, Spain has experienced devastating flash floods that have killed at least 158 people. If you’ve spent any time following such stories, you’ll know that this death toll is going to keep rising as the missing are found to be dead. As all credible scientists (and every mainstream faction comprising 194 of 195 national governments) agree, the climate crisis is upon us, and humanity has brought it upon ourselves. You may have noticed that one government is missing, and that’s the United States of America, the country I happen to live in. The Republican Party that has so embraced Donald Trump is the only significant political movement in the world that denies the existence of manmade climate change. And yet, he stands an excellent chance of returning to office as a result of Tuesday’s election.
This is what disqualifies the man most of all. If the United States elects Trump in spite of his actions on January 6, in spite of his COVID genocide in 2020, then we did it to ourselves. However, there’s an old saying that your freedom to swing your arms ends at my face. As horrific as January 6 was, it only affected American domestic politics. The U.S. has no right to elect Donald Trump and inflict the consequences of our climate denial on the rest of the world. History will not judge us kindly if we elect him again. Or maybe they will, because history is written by the winners.
All of the above is to say that the potential reelection of Donald Trump is a greater nightmare than any Halloween story could possibly dream of. Voters of the United States have no right to return him to power, and if they do, Americans deserve to be sanctioned to hell and back for plunging the world into hell.
