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Early Findings from 2020 Election Offer a Dim View of America

Too many Americans suffer from ‘limited cognition’

Manny Otiko
5 min readNov 4, 2020
Americans line up to vote. (YouTube screencap/Manny Otiko)

So, it’s Wednesday morning and the presidential election is still not settled. This result was not unexpected. The increase in mail-in voting, because of COVID-19, means that it will take days to tally all the votes. But some of the early findings offer some alarming views of America. President Donald Trump cronies Senators Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell both won reelection and the Republicans look like they will retain the Senate. Here are some other observations:

Americans are okay with Trump’s racism, corruption

Trump went into the election having bungled the coronavirus outbreak. That cost almost 250,000 people their lives. He’s also a serial liar who’s told more than 20,000 whoppers, is billions of dollars in debt, and his White House is a scandal factory. Yet millions of Americans are okay with this?

Many leftists watched the results and were left gobsmacked. How can people think this behavior is OK? The president is a laughingstock and mocked worldwide for his incompetence and yet some people want to give him four more years?

This tweet from Fred Guttenberg, the father of a child…

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Manny Otiko
Manny Otiko

Written by Manny Otiko

Manny Otiko writes about race, politics and sports. He has been published in Salon and LA Weekly. Follow him at @mannyotiko.bsky.social

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