E Y E W E A R, THE BLOG - FREEDOM MEANS BEING UNAFRAID TO WRITE WHAT YOU THINK

Others will say it better - but, here goes my small part in this - I stayed up last night, as the horror dawned on me, literally and otherwise, that VP Harris was losing. I was wrong, thinking she'd win in a landslide possibly, see the other post. Separate from the deep concern for the world, especially with regards to Ukraine, and global warming, and American democracy (which is robust but about to be dismantled) is the deeper wounding realisation that a majority of humans would choose such a person, rather than actually vote for a woman.   It feels like misogyny and racism was on display. Concern for the economy should not mean exemption from moral or ethical concerns.   The digital online world has clearly contributed to a new unreality in America and beyond, where so many millions could not see the truth of the man they elevated, and bestowed such triumph and power onto.   And, what makes it worse, we are all now in this with him, because we have to live in his terri...

A few weeks back this blog predicted Trump was likely to win the US Presidential Election 2024, which is underway today. We now think that was incorrect. In the past few weeks, Trump alienated, needlessly of course, and without apology, of course, Americans with Puerto Rican connections; made unveiled sinister comments about being "nasty" when elected; and hinted he would protect women even if they didn't want him to; he also made "jokes" about journalists that sounded odd to put it politely. The list of reasons is long, but if he loses it will clearly be because more people voted for VP Kamala Harris , which makes sense in a less madhouse world. Trump poses such a danger to America and the world, and has such a history, that it is extraordinarily sad and off-putting that almost half of American voters seem to prefer him to a sane, intelligent, hard-working and successful woman leader, without a criminal record, who, yes, sometimes smiles and laughs. We shall s...