The U.S. has elected Joe Biden president, ending the presidency of Donald Trump.
This is a return to the standard failure of the democratic process in a country that is primarily committed to the free market, rugged individualism, and guns.
Biden is the normal but truly awful presidential candidate, replacing the uniquely horrible election of Trump.
As many people have noted, changing presidents typically means only small differences in the daily lives of people. Those with some affluence and privilege continue to have really good lives, lives that allow them to focus on trivial matters that seem huge because of that affluence or privilege.
People in poverty, working class people, and the many different categories of people living in what we have euphemized as “diverse” identities, however, will mostly continue to live barely in the margins of the American dream—even when these people also attain some level of wealth or privilege in their accomplishments.
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