The Symptom and the Disease!

This morning one of the MSNBC talking heads posited the question “why was a single individual, Donald Trump capable of plunging the nation into this dark pit”. That question seeks to reduce this problem to its lowest common denominator. The truth is that Trump is not the disease, he is the symptoms of what’s wrong with this country.

Trump merely gave what was always simmering below the surface license to see the light of day. For hundreds of years we gave special treatment to Caucasian people based on the notion that they had a greater right to humanity than any other group of people. They had hundreds of years to embrace and nurture this notion. In their minds they see themselves being asked to relinquish something that they believed was their natural birthright.

We failed to address this notion after the Indian wars, we failed to address it after slavery. We reinforced the notion with the American Eugenics movement of the early 20th Century. Now the chickens have come home to roost. The nation’s “others” are growing in population. This growth is disrupting the tools which always allowed Caucasian people to maintain their control. The ballot box will no longer work when they are no longer the majority. So rather than acknowledge that and except it they are working overtime to change the rules of the ballot box. Voter disenfranchisement is the tool of the day.

Donald Trump is not the cause, he is the evidence that a segment of the US never wanted or was prepared to accept the worls tired and weary as equals.

The real question is can any of this be repaired? Is there a fix for the United States?

Pay Attention!
Think!!
Eyes Wide 👀 👁 Open!!!