Voter’s Remorse

by Rick Stiller

Voter’s Remorse

After years of writing political novels and reams of essays reinforced by my belief in the most basic goodness of our society, that hope was dashed when a majority of our citizens voted for a hateful, lying bigot who is an adjudicated rapist, convicted felon, and twice impeached traitor to disgrace our nation’s highest office…again.

There is no other explanation for his overwhelming victory than admitting that a large portion of our society has been given permission to hate by accepting the bile spewed by the white-nationalist propaganda machine, blaming the ‘others’ for every challenge being suffered by society. As my character, Mac Murphy, says, and voters proved, “Hate’s an easy sell.”

Men voted to allow their wives and daughters to die as the result of a miscarriage or other complications in pregnancy because doctors are threatened with charges of murder if they provide care for those patients.

White women ignored his misogyny, his abusive language and violence against women, and his adjudication as a rapist. They don’t seem to mind that the Supreme Court rescinded their right to abortion with their decision to discard precedent with Roe vs. Wade. They are expected to outlaw IVF and contraceptives in their next session.