WTF AMERICA!

After stress eating for two weeks leading up to the presidential election, I finally decided that I had had

enough. I wondered why I opted to direct the rage, anger and disappointment I felt about white

Americans choosing an insurrectionist for President toward myself. I didn’t vote for the convicted felon. I

voted for Vice President Kamala Harris, the candidate who actually had the credentials and wisdom to

lead this country out of the past and into the future.

For the people who voted Trump into office not once but twice, for those people who didn’t come out to

vote, for those who switched teams, you will have to live with the fact that you are now an accomplice

to the downfall of democracy. You’ve given Trump unchecked power to rape and pillage this country.

His American Nazis will soon target immigrants, people of color, Jews, trans, gay, old, disabled people,

and ANYONE who does not bow to their MAGA point of view. The racists, the conservative religious right

and the billionaires who will never have enough power and money who support Trump will watch with

detachment as our freedoms are obliterated. One only has to view Trump’s cabinet picks to recognize

that American democracy is under siege by a Trump kakistocracy.

We live in a racist, misogynist country and as I look back on our history, which is being slowly erased by

Republican leadership across the country with the banning and burning of books, I see the truth.

America has always been racist and misogynist. White people, even the most liberal, are in denial of this

fact. We have been privileged for generations and our inaction to eradicate racism speaks volumes

about our collective will to support white supremacy even if it means turning our country over to an

insurrectionist who has no regard for the rule of law or our constitution.

GREED and the unquenchable thirst for power have become the new Gods. There are those who hide

behind the banner of religion quoting scripture yet their actions are hateful towards those who don’t

share their religious beliefs. We have the right to worship or not how we choose in this country and local

government should not control a woman’s right to choose what she does with her body. USA Today

reports ten percent of America’s top earners own 60% of our country’s entire wealth and if you subtract

social security from that figure the top earner percentage rises to 70%. What you can put your trust in is

that Trump will target your social security and all that I mention will soon play out in real time. People

are struggling to survive and feed their families and both parties have failed them.

The same corporations that are price gouging people are Trump’s biggest supporters. I mourn the death of the America that was far from perfect but once held promise for the world. During Trump’s presidency it will

only hold promise for him and the billionaires who put him in office.

“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with

difficulty, and we must rise -- with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act

anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.”

Abraham Lincoln December 1, 1862 Message to Congress

The only silver lining in all of this is that we can rebuild whatever Trump and his minions attempt to

destroy. Our first priority in regaining our democracy must be to dismantle systemic racism on a national

level. Corporations must be held accountable to pay their workers a wage that they can survive and

thrive on. Black Rock and Wall Street investors must be banned from the housing market which is now

unaffordable for the masses. Only then can America begin to live up to its hype. Democracy and the

freedoms that come with it are worth fighting for. Buckle up -- there is turbulence ahead. Let us direct

our collective energy to ensure that this shameful point in our country’s history is short lived.