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Why The Horror Show Of The Moment Is The Mid-Term Elections

Ezinne Ukoha
5 min readOct 30, 2018

If I could believe in God I would and that confession is an indication of the turmoil that rages in a mind that’s been overloaded with never ending clips of a rough cut of the horror flick — that’s currently playing to sold out shows.

The tragedies that are occurring in a nation that’s ailing and bordering on terminal make the climate even more potently incapable of summoning the fortitude to move in a direction that’s reasonably tolerable.

As the country reels from yet another senseless killing performed by a White terrorist who stormed a synagogue, and while spewing out anti-semitism jargon, proceeded to shoot up the scared space— we are once again confronted with the active issues of our discontent.

When Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida was under siege by the murderous wiles of another White male — hearts were broken on a day when hearts were supposed to be filled with love.

The unspeakable tragedy was vile enough to necessitate the resurrection of the ultra-sensitive issue of gun control, and how if precious children were able to be blasted in their classrooms by another White terrorist using a high powered weapon — back in 2012 with no justice for their fragile lives — we can’t expect that to ever change.

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