Today is the day… Inauguration day! We did it – we defeated the tyrant, using our bravery and perseverance to fight for… another old man. At least he is nice. Joe Biden is probably the best thing to happen to America in the past 10 months; so, I will connect the inauguration to Mad Max: Fury Road and the defeat of tyranny.
The world we currently live in could honestly be compared to the apocalyptic wasteland; as Angharad screams “Then who killed the world” as she pushes Nux to his death, I can’t help but think of our own earth. Just yesterday, we had a president who abused his power and a country ravaged by a pandemic, millions dead from a virus that should’ve been defeated from the second it began. Today, many parts of our situation remain the unfortunately the same, but this historical day leaves us with hope on the horizon.
Just like in Mad Max, we didn’t get this easy – we had to fight tooth and nail to make such an achievement. While not many of us were tied to the front of a war machine with a metal muzzle attached to our faces, we were oppressed in different ways; we had to march and scream and struggle in order to not be stepped on and knelt on and shot and killed. Don’t get me wrong, our country is still overwhelmed by problems almost too big to solve; but we can be content now that a better, more compassionate, more peaceful person is our commander.
As close as he got, it won’t be Donald Trump who killed the world.
Let’s salute and keep fighting.