For those of you who live on a remote island where the wi-fi only works for three minutes every other month, the content of this article might come as a surprise; on the contrary, if you are at least 0,001% familiar with the absurdity of 2020, which is finding a new way to let us down each and every month, then you probably either saw it coming or you’re so used to celebrities’ craziness (in this case, the Kardashian-Jenner-West-whatever’s) that you’re totally unfazed by this occurrence.
Kanye West’s presidential campaign is just like those people who dislike ABBA; questionable, but still legitimate. It was announced on Twitter three weeks ago, and it has been followed by a series of political statements and a rally in Charleston, South Carolina, where he delivered a speech that made the entire Internet go wild.
[You can find the transcript at this link.]
A part of this speech («I almost killed my daughter!») showed up in the titles of many tabloids, as a moment in which he opened up and revealed that he almost convinced his wife Kim Kardashian to get an abortion when they found out that she was expecting their firstborn. He then told the crowd that if it weren’t for his mother, he would have never been born, since his father was anything but a paternal figure and wanted her to end the pregnancy. Therefore, he told the crowd that he believes that children are extremely valuable, and suggested that if it were up to him, yes, abortion laws would still exist, but every person would be rewarded with a million dollars in case they decided to keep the baby and raise it.
After publicly admitting that he was advised not to share these personal matters with the crowd, he then said that “even if my wife wants to divorce me after this speech, she brought North into the world, even when I didn’t want to. She stood up and protected that child.” A possible divorce between he and his wife came up in a tweet a couple of days later, with the claim that he has been trying to end their marriage for two years because he doesn’t approve of her “suspicious” relationship with the fellow rapper Meek Mill.
In particular, Kanye reported that Kim and Meek met at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel restaurant in 2018 and just assumed that they were having a secret relationship, whereas the two met along with philanthropist Clara Wu for a professional meeting about prison reforms. After this, he attacked his mother-in-law Kris Jenner, calling her both «Kris Jong-Un» and a «white supremacist» on Twitter as he posted some texts that he had sent her («You wanna talk – or go to war?”).
Due the deleted tweets and his controversial statements (e.g. abortion laws, misogyny, Harriet Tubman allegedly being a slave owner, and vaccines being “the mark of the beast”), many people are exploiting social media to make fun of Kanye’s mental condition and his «public breakdown», stating that he “needs serious help” and that is bipolar disorder is the reason behind every single word that comes out of this mouth, bigotry included. Whether the aforementioned cases were due to a maniac episode or not, Kanye’s bipolar disorder must neither be ridiculed nor used for any gratuitous vilification.
The singer Halsey, who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at age 17, wrote a tweet right after the huge backlash to defend Kanye:
Using Kanye’s mental health condition against him as a way to demonstrate that it is what makes him “unfitting” for a potential presidency is completely inhumane and despicable. On the contrary, what should frighten people is his misogyny, bigotry, and religious fanaticism, which would definitely make him a great President, if you consider that these are features that many previous Presidents shared too. After all, there is a reason why he and Donald Trump get along so well.
At the moment, Kanye has missed the key deadlines to qualify for the ballots in several States such as North Carolina, New York, and Texas; furthermore, he recently failed to collect enough signatures for South Carolina, despite choosing it as the location for the first rally of his presidential campaign.
With a really low percentage of favourable voters (around 2% and 8%, according to the national polls), Kanye is further from being a front runner in the forthcoming elections. And with him unofficially out of the picture since day one, the real confrontation stays between the Republican Donald Trump and the Democratic Joe Biden.
May the lesser of two evils triumph.
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