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Split Screen!
Watching a split-screen broadcast of a flailing, failing President Trump spouting utter nonsense, spewing hate, racism, and bald-faced lies, and validating gilded self-aggrandizement to a half-empty Mississippi high school auditorium with a capacity of 2600 while many attendees bolted during his meandering and abusive speech, in a desperate last-minute rush to salvage the campaigns of unqualified and extremist MAGA candidates in ruby red states that should have been slam-dunk victories…
Opposite a composed, articulate, passionate, and funny former President Obama speaking before a packed, energized arena in Georgia about the causes of and common-sense solutions to the real issues facing Americans…
Provided a juxtaposition illustrating the opposing concepts of truth, our stark political and economic divisions, and the institutionally fueled ethnic tensions plaguing our society in this dark era of Trump II.
Obama’s speech recalled an enlightened vision of hope for our country’s and our democracy’s future by engaging every citizen in the quest for inclusion, opportunity, empathy, and the freedom to pursue their dreams. He laid out a path to repudiate the darkness, bigotry, and hate of Trump’s America and return to our place as leader of the free world, if we are willing to share a common purpose and mutual determination to attain new pinnacles of liberty and equality.
