Well, it's official. Trump won the 2024 presidential election. Again. And this time, we can't blame it on the Electoral College or Russian interference or anything other than We the People. Or rather, about half of us. And the half of us that voted for Trump is overwhelmingly male, unsurprisingly. If only men's votes were counted, Trump won by a landslide. If only Women's votes were counted, Kamala Harris would have won by (almost) a landslide. Very much like 2016.
Only this time around, literally everyone knew what he was all about, and so many still voted for him. So literally NO ONE can credibly claim naivety or ignorance (unless truly willful) this time. They had an easy out, and yet they chose to go right back to Trump. They are NOT victims, they are volunteers, often very eager ones, which makes them complicit with the oppressors. In fact, in the two weeks leading up to Election Day, Trump deliberately darkened his already vile rhetoric even more to get more undecided or apathetic folks off of their couches to go to the polls.
And the gender gap was surprisingly wide for younger (Gen Z) voters as well. And Trump/Vance clearly went out of their way to court the "bro vote", as they like to call it.
And it wasn't even the usual "deplorables" and "alt-right" and adjacent guys that were the biggest disappointment. Rather, it was the perfidious squishy-center, middle-of-the-road, fauxgressive, "educated", and "cool" types of guys who apparently thought so little of the better half of humanity (or could care less about them), that in an election where Women's human rights were literally at stake, they blithely and casually threw Women under the bus by voting for Trump. They literally chose the rapist, racist, misogynistic, convicted felon, lunatic, and insurrectionist candidate over the highly accomplished Woman of color candidate, because reasons. Or they simply didn't vote at all, or they voted third party, because they chose to make the perfect the enemy of the good, and we all ultimately got neither as a result.
Women, and the men who genuinely love them, will NOT forget such perfidy!
And yes, plenty of Women (particularly white ones) were also apparently self-hating misogynistic (and/or gilded-caged and privileged) enough to betray their own gender too by voting for Trump, but that is a topic for another conversation.
Of course, this is sadly NOT the first time the fellas have done such a thing. It's been going on since Adam threw Eve under the bus after they both got caught eating the forbidden fruit. And to those fellas who apparently see nothing wrong (or at least nothing worth opposing) with the Republican Project 2025 agenda essentially forcing Women to be brood mares, remember that that would also make men....WORK HORSES. After all, the punishment for Eve was to "increase the pains of childbirth", while for Adam, he would have to "work for every crumb" going forward. Sounds like the authors of that story readily anticipated the 2024 election and its aftermath!
They had ONE job this time, and that was to simply get off the damn couch and cast a secret ballot for Kamala, the only person really standing in the way of Trump, and no one would ever have to know. And they couldn't even do that! And now that they have sown the wind, they shall reap the whirlwind!
America is basically dead and done now. And it would truly take a miracle of miracles to transcend this madness and make it out the other side in one piece.
One may recall an article from late 2016, titled "Kali Takes America, I'm With Her". Basically, Trump's first term was predicted to be a "dark night of the soul" for America, in other words. Apparently, America learned NOTHING from that ordeal, and thus we end up repeating it again, and likely worse and darker this time around. And it seems an even darker analogy is called for now.
The 2015 song "The Vengeful One" by Disturbed (and its excellent video) comes to mind as to what is called for in times like this: "I'm the Hand of God, I'm the Dark Messiah, I'm the Vengeful One". Sounds just like what the doctor ordered! The dark, messianic figure in the song is male, of course. But what if that figure was a Woman instead? Well, I thought of a somewhat esoteric idea, getting back to the overall general theme of this article.
Enter Adam's first wife, from well before Eve even existed. Or more accurately, his first lover, as the patriarchal institution of marriage hadn't even been invented yet, and it's safe to say she wasn't exactly the marrying kind. In fact, their fairly brief relationship had failed precisely because she refused to submit to Adam. She was almost entirely erased from both the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Bible, leaving only very subtle traces behind, and only explicitly mentioned elsewhere in Jewish and Mesopotamian folklore. And she was predictably (and quite literally!) demonized by the patriarchs, as they have often done to Goddesses of the Matriarchal religions they have appropriated, co-opted, and perverted for themselves. While more recently, Sarah McLachlan famously called her "the first feminist", and thus named her Women's music festival after her. So who is she?
Lilith is her name. You may or may not have heard of her explicitly, but the general concept of her can be found practically everywhere one is willing to look. Contrary to those who demonize her, she is not actually evil, but rather she is best described as "beyond good and evil", which is of course a reference to Nietzsche. That said, it's probably NOT a wise idea to piss her off! So if there were ever a Woman candidate for "Dark Messiah", it would have to be Lilith.
In fact, 20 years ago in 2004, author Alex Gordon even wrote a book about Lilith called Nine Deadly Venoms, a part autobiographical, part self-help book about the nine most important obstacles and challenges that one needs to personally conquer in order to truly stay alive in the 21st century. In this book, she is portrayed as a Matriarchal Age warrior priestess, who is supposedly planning a second coming, in order to cleanse the world of evil and establish a new Matriarchal Age once again.
Again, that's really just what the doctor ordered in times like these!
(I haven't read the actual book itself, but I recall reading his old website about the book back then after stumbling upon in serendipitously, which was one of several things over the years that piqued my interest in Matriarchy in general.)
And in fact, like practically every other Goddess that has a name, one could even consider Lilith to be yet another facet of the very multifaceted Mother God Herself.
So as the darkness settles in once again, we need to keep all of this in mind. And once again, we all must #RESIST tyranny of any kind. If you give them an inch, they take a mile.
