I was promised a great nation. What happened to it?

I wish I could say that I’m surprised about what happened at the Capitol on Jan. 6, but I’m not. I always knew in the back of my mind that something was going to happen when it was announced that President-Elect Joe Biden won. When there’s a presidential race as big as the one last year, it’s bound to happen. Protests took place all over the country when Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016. It’s only fair that the losing side got the opportunity to do that very same thing with this election.

I just didn’t think that the protests would lead to people storming the capital, terrorize politician, and call it a “revolution.” That was something I could have never imagined.   

Now, at the time of writing this a week later, it was just announced that the House of Representatives has impeached Trump for the second time. According to The Wall Street Journal, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell won’t call an emergency session so the senate can vote on the impeachment article and officially convict Trump. This means the likelihood of the impeachment article passing before Inauguration Day is incredibly slim.  

However, that doesn’t mean that this will all go away. Once Biden is president, senate will be a Democratic majority. This will most likely lead to Trump’s conviction and ruin his chances of running for president in the future. It would be better for McConnell to hold the emergency session and take the chance on the Republican majority keeping Trump from conviction.  

I have every opportunity to call for Trump’s head in this editorial, many opinion writers across the nation already have. But, as I sit here writing this, I can’t conjure the anger to do it.  

Maybe that makes me a bad Biden supporter. I’ll take my chances though. 

More than anything else, I’m tired of what has been going on at Capitol Hill. I don’t have the energy in me to feel any other way. I think many people my age, regardless of political party, feel the same way. I’m almost 20-years-old and have witnessed more political turmoil in my life than some have ever seen. And the finish line is far from sight. 

I’m tired of the United States being the butt of the joke in other countries. I hate that my generation jokes about the fact that- if things keep spiraling downwards- we could be fighting a civil war.  It all needs to end. I want the “great nation” that I’ve been promised to inherit since I was a child.

Both sides have been prodding each other with sticks for the last four years and the riot at the Capitol was the result of that. We can’t keep doing this with each other now that the Biden Administration is about to take over. Regardless of whether you voted for Biden or not, whether you think the election was “rigged,” it’s time to accept the fact that he is going to be president.  

I get it. It sucks to lose. But now is the time to ditch throwing tantrums like children and act like the adults that we all are. Biden is only set to be president for four years. After that, who knows what will happen. Anyone who dislikes him has every opportunity to change that through voting. Do just as the Democrats did in the last election and come out swinging.  

I dare you.