15 million American people have been affected by the hurricanes in the last two weeks, with the whole island of 3.5 million in Puerto Rico is without power. It may be that way for months.
Your president has not a care in the world about any of that. He moved on from those tragedies faster than the hurricanes themselves.
Instead, Trump is tweeting about Stephen Curry not coming to the White House, baiting Kim Jong Un into nuclear war, railing on at Southern (white) republican rallies about NFL players (correction, black NFL players) not standing up during the National Anthem and demanding that they be fired.
Your President is angry because not all people don’t want to support his program–correction, he has zero program, zero detailed plans–he is angry because people don’t want him, love him, or respect him. He is trying to get civilian folk fired, and lying about the way of life because some of us think he is unfit.
Shame cannot express how I feel about us right now. The world is watching and no one at the highest levels in America is saying anything to challenge this man, to make the world understand that this is not us.
But this is US.
I’ll hear pundits say that folks didn’t truly know who they were voting for, and this is a complete shock to all things normal and civil. But pay attention, when leaders are quiet, when churches are quiet, when citizens are quiet, it doesn’t mean that they are shocked or even embarrassed; it means that they are going along with the program. They aren’t that scared to hold their tongues.
Remember when people thought that Obama was going to take their guns, give their lands to foreigners, bring down the economy, and was part of the New World Order; they thought he was going to be a tyrant–yet they could speak out against that guy? It doesn’t make any sense that people would’t speak out now.
If these people are going along with the program, then they support the program, period. They are the silent majority. They are your friends and family and bosses and pastors and elected officials. And they cannot even publicly disagree with a thing that Trump says or does. Some of you have posted about players not standing for the flag, and all things patriotic. But were is your patriotism now?
I have always been a supporter of politics and governance and an engaged citizenry. I was a Student Body President in elementary school; I was one in high school; I have worked for free on campaigns, run unsuccessfully for office, and if I could do it, I’d go back to school in a heartbeat and earn a PhD in Political History and teach at universities for pay, and in primary schools for free. I have never missed an election, and I watch more socio-political news that sports. I have tried as best as I could to be a part of what is best about community in American policy, and I am failing.
And so is everyone else around me, and it doesn’t matter what your politics are.
When the world ends in movies, it is usually because of some multinational corporation’s contagion that has been unleashed, or because some uncontrollable force has devastated us. In reality, when we end this civilization as we know it, it will be because we were too filled with our own lusts to stop ourselves.
I hear people around me saying, one day, we will find another planet to start over. We cannot run from ourselves; we would surely find a way to screw that place up as well.
But we don’t deserve another planet; we don’t even deserve this one.
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