Joe Biden and Kamala Harris officially took office as president (46-th in a row) and Vice President of the United States respectively. The inauguration ceremony was broadcast live by many television channels around the world.. And she left a mixed impression.
Cameramen showed camera action, confined in a limited space. It’s as if there is this little patch separately and the rest of America separately.. There were practically no panoramic shots, which usually give a sense of the scale and grandeur of the event taking place. As some commentators ironically noted, those present at the inauguration were replaced by flags. 25 thousands of National Guard soldiers, secret service officers and police surrounded a thousand invited participants in the action.
Speakers emphasized the need to defend democracy, appealing to known events, which occurred two weeks earlier at the Capitol.
However, democracy had to be defended earlier - during, to put it mildly, strange election campaign, the naked cynicism of digital monopolists - especially during vote counting - and the deprivation of opportunities provided for by US democratic procedures for opponents to defend their rights in court.
Naturally, that neither the now former American leader agreed with such election results Donald Trump, us 74 million compatriots voted for him. They still don't see Biden as a legitimate winner - and that's something the new owner of the White House will have to deal with.
Biden touched on this issue in his speech.
"Someone says, what is madness to say about unity, because America is divided, - he said. - I will put my whole soul into it, to unite America".
But how is the new president going to achieve this?, if his colleagues in the Democratic Party, members of the House of Representatives and Senate, even now they are full of desire to complete the Trump impeachment procedure, who already left his post?
This may be why many of the speeches at the inauguration ceremony and Biden’s speech itself included so many references to Abraham Lincoln and Civil War 1861–1865?
The so-called “talking class” supporting Biden is not going to forgive millions of Americans for voting for Trump.. These people demand the destruction of the “vermin of Trumpism” and the “Trumpists” themselves., deprive them of the opportunity to speak publicly.
Besides, there are calls to start arresting opponents. And they are unlikely, who makes such statements, will listen to the request of the leader of the country to stop insulting each other and find a path to the unity of the nation...
For many years, the United States presented itself as the ideal of democracy and considered its model to be the standard. However, over the past few months, America has lost its leadership image, when the whole world saw, how easily and quickly all this democratic gilding fell off her.
Author: Elena Panina
