So Yosemite Sam won the Republican nod to run for governor this November; this is not at all surprising, as victory was pretty much locked in as soon as the Donald Trump gave him his endorsement, which all but guaranteed all of his brainless sheep worshippers would vote him in. Also not surprising was the relative ease in which he won the primary, defeating Casey Cagle by nearly 40 full points, going to further show just how much power a president that everyone loves to make fun of truly does wield.
So the field is officially set for probably the most important state election that I’ve lived in Georgia for, between gun-toting, Trump-worshipping, immigrant-threatening, unapologetically redneck Yosemite Sam, versus Stacey Abrams, a black woman, in a racist-ass state in busted-ass America, for governor of Georgia.
Obviously, I’ve written a lot of words about this particular topic, more than I ever thought I’d care to ever expend. But I’m a grown-up (relatively), and I guess this is what happens to grown-ups, caring about politics, and I like the general state of Georgia these days, and I fear that a radical change in the political regime of the state highly jeopardizes such chill state of Georgia.
The bottom line is that no matter how much money, exposure and awareness that the Democratic party has funneled behind Stacey Abrams, she is obviously going to be the underdog by being both black and a woman, trying to make history, by becoming the first-ever black female governor in the United States. In Georgia. A state with deep roots involved with slavery, white supremacy and barely a decade removed from when they actually got the Confederate insignia off of its flag.
Her opponent likes to accuse Abrams of wanting to cater to billionaires, and this is where I have to ask, what’s the problem with that? Catering to billionaires is what Nathan Deal did for the last decade, and by doing so companies like Porsche, Mercedes-Benz, Kia and the entire fucking movie industry have come into Georgia to operate out of, among countless other notable Fortune 500 companies.
Meanwhile, if Georgia ends up being won by Yosemite Sam, we’ll have a state led by a literal sock puppet to Donald Trump, and it would only be a matter of time before he starts pushing through all sorts of bills and laws that are going to inevitably enrage the billionaires, to where they’ll consider and possibly actually leave Georgia, and take their companies and their jobs that employ so many Georgians, out of here. And then the state will suffer, and will end up looking like a landscape of primitive technology like when an uncivilized country takes over a civilized one in Civilization.
The bottom line is that I’m only going to talk about this one more time (hopefully): the importance has never been more paramount for Georgia voters to get out and vote this November. The vast majority of white folks are going to vote for Yosemite Sam whether or not they’re aware of the perils a state led by him will bring forth. So it literally rests on all minorities and not just the black people, to get out there and try and swing this state to Abrams. Minority in the sense that you’re not a white Republican in Georgia; the brown people, the yellow people, the gay people, the lesbian people, the queer people, absofuckinglutely anyone who isn’t a mindless Trump-worshipping sheep. The chances don’t look good, but nobody will ever know how things will play out unless they go out and play.
When I first found out about Yosemite Sam, I wrote primarily tongue-in-cheek about the nightmare that it would be if he ascended. But not surprising in this busted-ass America we live in, it actually happened, and he’s literally now on the doorstep of the governor’s mansion, and has just one more step to climb before this state heads down the shitter.
I really am hoping for a 2008-like uprising to happen and that that every non-Republican in Georgia actually makes a conscious effort to get out and vote. Because some political analyst said it best recently, a narrow defeat is still a defeat, and it won’t matter of Yosemite Sam wins by 0.1 points or 50, Georgia is fucked anyway, unless people want to become active participants to history and keep Georgia operating as chill as it is today, for future years.
