Thang Nguyen 555

You can’t do that! Yes, I can.

How many times have we heard that over the past four years?

America is an ensemble of people from all walks of life.

Because of its heterogeneous make-up, the US of A doesn’t and couldn’t see itself under monarchy or tyranny without checks and balance. It allows for a 4 or 8 year-term, max.

Meanwhile, we’ve got the media, once top-down (broadcasting) now bottom up (narrow casting).

With technology at our fingertips, bits rule. No longer huge steam engines, or huge corporations like GM and Ford to lord over a respective industry or nation (What’s good for GM is good for America, “You can buy a model T in any color you want, as long as it’s black”).

People power emboldened by technological empowerment. A 3-year old kid has a phone. An 8-year old is politically informed (Who won?)

From far flung, people were anxious for the AP call. The Philadelphia of Benjamin (Franklin) is now Philadelphia of Bermuda and Belarus.

Computing power keeps accelerating exponentially, as chip-makers making huge bets when buying rival firms.

World trade grows, deficit grows, and virus spread.

We are living on borrowed time and borrowed money.

Individually and globally.

What happened yesterday was phenomenal: a perfect storm, a collision of ideals and ideologies, so much that places like China and Israel all stayed up, woke up to facebook fireworks.

Delaware by comparison is small state in the Union. Yet from there, last night, history was in the making.

A Harris opened the night, then a Biden to top it up.

Then we saw the First Family Elect surround Biden with local supporters. Infact, he even went back in time to mention his grandpa who used to call him “Joey”. The imagery and iconic evening can’t be far more different than previously portrayed and paraded (come to think of it, the Inauguration crowd 4 years ago was doctored suitable for ego inflation on Pennsylvania Avenue.)

America will always seek to modify itself after its best imagination. Last night, America was calling out its better angels to secure the land of the free where it would not be free if no one come out and say “No, you can’t do that” or “Put on your adult pants, and make that concession speech”.

What’s good for Biden is now good for America, an America of all and for all.