Vahe H. Apelian
As of late November 5, 2020, all but six states reported the results of the presidential election voting that has granted the challenger Biden 253 electoral votes and the incumbent President Trump 214 electoral the votes. The states that have not reported their voting tally are the following: Alaska, Nevada, Arizona, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgia. Their electoral votes respectively are as follows: 3, 6,11, 20, 15, 16. Biden is narrowly leading in Nevada and Arizona.
If Biden wins in NV and AZ, it means that 17 electoral votes will be added to his current 253 votes bringing him just to the finish line, and no more. There is a POWERFUL SYMBOLISM in that tally of the electoral votes, if it will come to pass. It means that both the winner and the loser stand just next to each other. Who scored a decisive win then ? It appears to me that the people. Having done what is their duty and responsibility to do to keep this form government continue on running its longest course in modern history, outliving all other governmental institutions for the past some 250 years. Those other governmental institutions could have kings, monarchs, tsars, dictators, comrade commissars, all were pushed into the dustbin of history as this institution rooted in “life, liberty and pursuit of happiness” continued to govern with the consent of the governed.
Today Marie and I went to our regular medical appointments and then then went shopping in Lowes and bought a gas leaf blower on wheels. All we met in the doctors’ offices and in the hardware store were people who attended to us with a smile and did their jobs oblivious of the rest. The cars on the highways and streets were running as they usually do. The weather was nice. The stock market rallied today as follows: S&P 500 3443.44 +2.20%, DOW INDUSTRIALS 27847.66 +1.34%, NASDAQ COMPOSITE 11590.781 +3.85%
It occurred to me that a powerful statement was is being sent to the winner and to the loser and that statement was: do you jobs and move on, as the rest of us do our jobs and move on. Do not distract us the people with your unnecessary bravados or promises, as the everyday people do not boast how well they do the tasks assigned to them nor do they promise how well they will do since they are expected to give the job they apply their best. They just do it. Let the people do what they do best, attend to their jobs and provide the best of the services, and continue to quest for innovation and new technologies that were mostly born in the U.S. whether it is the dish washer or the iPhone . It is the people who have made and will continue to make what was meant for the United States of America be, a beacon among the nations. Attend to them with humility.
“Democracy’s sometimes messy. It sometimes required a little patience as well. But that patience has been rewarded for more than 240 years with a system of governance that’s been the envy of the world.” Said Joseph Biden.
The final results are expected to be in late today, Friday, November 6, 2020. A new phase in the peaceful transfer of power, the hallmark of the American democracy, may very well ensue this time around.
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