I am really sad and worried about this situation, people are dying, tensions are rising, and I already thought the world was filled with enough crap and hatred. I feel like the coronavirus is almost like a physical manifestation of how messed up the world is. Only, it’s making people gravely ill and killing them... not to mention, it’s halting the productivity of the world to a standstill and could cause recessions, and poor countries without good healthcare could become affected even greater when it comes to people’s health.
I hate how people are blaming Asians (especially Chinese) and terrorizing them, attacking them, even going as far as stabbing, shooting them!? People are disgusting and stupid, and racist! I’m so angry and disgusted when I hear about it. I hate how the president of the US is handling this situation too, he doesn’t care about people’s lives in his country, he cares only about his image and reputation, and he doesn’t give a single care to what happens to the people. He doesn’t care if millions of people die, as long as he can remain in power, and he keeps making up lies and distractions so that people won’t blame him for being so careless.
Sorry for being such a pessimist... I just hate living in a world with all these awful things, like racism, war, conflict, and hatred. And now there’s a lethal disease pandemic to top it off.
Sorry for ranting and being like this too. I needed to let it out. I’m sorry. But I also want to say, I wish the best for people. I really do. I wish the best for the affected people in this situation and I really hope we can all make it out okay. I still will keep hope in my heart and never abandon it.
To be honest, after how politically tense of a year 2016 was (mainly referring to the context of me being an American here, but I am aware that other crazy political events happened that year in the rest of the world, most notably the United Kingdom voting to leave the European Union), I didn't think that politically, things could get any worse, but I really feel like 2020 and this virus outbreak has 2016
definitely beat.
That being said, I definitely want Donald Trump
gone from the White House. In my personal opinion, Trump losing re-election is almost certain-unemployment is now at the highest level since 1936, right when we were coming out of the Great Depression. Four years earlier, in 1932, Herbert Hoover lost re-election to Franklin D. Roosevelt in one of the biggest landslide defeats for an incumbent president in American history. (The only two that were worse electoral college wise were William Howard Taft when he lost re-election to Woodrow Wilson in 1912, although that was largely due to a vote split with Theodore Roosevelt, and 1980, when Jimmy Carter lost re-election to Ronald Reagan, although Roosevelt defeated Hoover by a
much larger margin in the popular vote in 1932 than Reagan did towards Carter in 1980) Yes, FDR did manage to get re-elected (in an even
larger landslide) in 1936, but this was largely because the doldrums of the Depression had been blamed on Hoover and the other Republican politicians that had been associated with the Hoover administration, along with the fact that the New Deal programs were still being passed by the end of Franklin D. Roosevelt's first term.
Donald Trump's supporters will repeatedly insist that there is no way Joe Biden can defeat him. But when the economy gets bad,
and we are now in the worst recession since the Great Depression, surpassing the Great Recession of 2007-2009 in that regard, the American public blames the crisis on you. Fairly or unfairly, this is how it goes. (And in Trump's case, I do think it's fair, because it's pretty clear that in 2020 so far, he has
massively mishandled the crisis, and in my personal opinion, the worst handling of a virus pandemic of any president in United States history) Since at least Herbert Hoover's landslide re-election defeat to Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932, any time the economy tanks under a Republican president, a Democrat gets voted in. Not only did this happen when we went from Hoover to Roosevelt, but it similarly happened in the 1992 election when George H.W. Bush lost re-election to Bill Clinton, and in the 2008 election, when after two terms of the administration of George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush's son (the second Bush was term-limited because of the Twenty-Second Amendment), a Democrat did win the election-Barack Obama. (Perhaps Jimmy Carter's defeat of Gerald Ford in 1976 can count, because the economy was pretty bad during most of the 1970s and had gotten bad before Richard Nixon's resignation from the Watergate scandal in 1974, as the 1973 oil crisis had hit that year, but Carter's win is largely considered to have happened as a reaction against Watergate, because as he was governor of Georgia, Jimmy Carter was able to successfully separate himself from the scandal and portray himself as an outsider to politics in Washington, D.C., and Ford had been greatly hurt by his pardon of Nixon)
There is one unfortunate realization I have made, though, during the coronavirus pandemic: even if the American voters this November vote out Donald Trump in favor of Joe Biden, I can't imagine that the racism Asians, especially Chinese people, have experienced here in the United States will go away. One thing I've unfortunately noticed about Americans is that anything, big or small, can bring out their racist tendencies: in the case of Asians anyway, this can be seen in concerns about the recent economic rise of China, and Japan before that, and with other issues related to countries in East Asia, such as the Toyota unintended acceleration recall of 2009-2011.
