America is where people of the world come and manifest their dreams. Trump's America blocks the world out and tells them to "go back where they came from".
America is world on the march toward freedom and democracy. Trump's America moves relentlessly toward dictatorial autocracy and welcomes dictatorial leaders as inspiration and friends.
America leads the world in free trade and commerce. Trump's America blocks free trade and inhibits commerce.
America created strong political and economic alliances to promote prosperity and freedom around the world. Trump's America is destroying its alliances and weakening America diplomatically and economically around the world.
America leads the world in scientific exploration and development. Trump's America attacks and destroys scientific research by neutering and destroying department of energy and agriculture, and by denying and destroying evidence of climate change.
America is essentially idealistic. Trump's America is greedy and avaricious. (And when I use the phrase "Trump's America" I mean the Trump Cult - those that are blindly believing and following this horrible man regardless of how horrible he is. I do not mean the poor folks who voted for Trump because they hated Hillary, or thought he was somehow "conservative'. I understand that they are trapped in a party that is not giving them alternatives to his depraved impulses.)
America has always had the horrors of Trump's America - from the genocide of Native Americans, to the crushing of African Americans through slavery, to the Jim Crow South, and to the relentless and enduring racism that has recently raised its nauseating head and shown itself in all its disgrace and shame.
There are times that I start to feel that the heart of America is a criminal enterprise, and the fact that enough of America elected a corrupt criminal to be its president supports that despairing feeling.
BUT...
Trump is Un-American. America is going to reject Trump, and recover it’s soul. Trump and his cult will be embarrassing footnotes in the American history and will join the KKK, George Wallace, the Tea Pot dome scandal and other darknesses in its checkered history. The real America will continue it’s march toward freedom, justice, caring and prosperity for all who are willing to have it.
I believe America is in a profound identity and spiritual crisis, and that the inspirational America will emerge to transform the corrupt America.
