{"id":13479,"date":"2020-11-06T04:17:59","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T12:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atheopaganism.wordpress.com\/?p=13479"},"modified":"2026-11-02T04:59:35","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T04:59:35","slug":"a-sad-reckoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mgreen.atheopaganism.org\/a-sad-reckoning\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sad Reckoning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had hoped that the American Presidential election would be a repudiation of Donald Trump and the divisive, racist, misogynistic, homophobic, fascistic nightmare of Trumpism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That hope was not realized. While Joe Biden&#8211;a decent man who I think will be a good though not transformative President&#8211;will eke out a victory, nearly 50% of the country voted for Trump even after watching four years of his antics and destructive policies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I could not be more disappointed&#8230;unless Trump had actually won.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don&#8217;t link to him very often, but John Beckett has a very fine piece on this. You can find it <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/johnbeckett\/2020\/11\/the-election-isnt-over-but-the-referendum-on-the-soul-of-america-is.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/strong> He has said the things I want to say. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am so saddened by this. Why, why are my people so filled with hatred and fear? Why will they choose leaders not in their own best interests, so long as they can stick it to those who are not like them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have so much work to do, friends. The Earth-honoring, kind world we hope for is still a long time in coming, and we must redouble our efforts to bring it about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had hoped that the American Presidential election would be a repudiation of Donald Trump and the divisive, racist, misogynistic, homophobic, fascistic nightmare of Trumpism. That hope was not realized. While Joe Biden&#8211;a decent man who I think will be a good though not transformative President&#8211;will eke out a victory, nearly 50% of the country voted for Trump even after watching four years of his antics and destructive policies. I could not be more disappointed&#8230;unless Trump had actually won. I don&#8217;t link to him very often, but John Beckett has a very fine piece on this. You can find it here. He has said the things I want to say. I am so saddened by this. Why, why are my people so filled with hatred and fear? Why will they choose leaders not in their own best interests, so long as they can stick it to those who are not like them? We have so much work to do, friends. The Earth-honoring, kind world we hope for is still a long time in coming, and we must redouble our efforts to bring it about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,23],"tags":[64],"class_list":["post-13479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","category-politics","tag-john-beckett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgreen.atheopaganism.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgreen.atheopaganism.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgreen.atheopaganism.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgreen.atheopaganism.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgreen.atheopaganism.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mgreen.atheopaganism.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22472,"href":"https:\/\/mgreen.atheopaganism.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13479\/revisions\/22472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgreen.atheopaganism.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgreen.atheopaganism.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgreen.atheopaganism.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgreen.atheopaganism.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}