Friday, January 30, 2026

The way out

America has a unifying American narrative. It is the same as always - All People are Created Equal.  

MAGA, Trump, White Christian Nationalists, Nazis, KKK, etc... all of them say what the Confederacy said in 1860 - white Men, and Men only, are superior to all other people.

But the Divinely inspired dream of Thomas Jefferson of equality had the power to form a nation, end slavery, empower the Civil Rights movement, lead the post WWII world toward democratic freedoms, and now will overthrow the Trump MAGA cult of white supremacy today.  

The country needs to know what is right and what is wrong.  What's right? all people are created equal.  What's wrong? white men are superior to all other humans.

The philosopher, Mortimer Adler, in his book "We Hold These Truths" answered the question - what do you mean all people are created equal? His answer? we are all equally human.  Created by God and loved equally by God and, as Jefferson wrote, endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights - the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

It is the solid rock upon which the United States of America was built.  White male supremacy was and is the rigid but fragile thin ice that the Confederacy was built on, and it cracked and collapsed. As will Trump and MAGA and White Christian Nationalism.  

America, the dream of America, will rise up and prevail anew.