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It appears that the dystopian theater call governance
is in no wise abating anytime soon because Americans are
seemingly caught in a political crossfire not knowing whom
to believe about basic core issues of fairness and justice.
The public murder of George Floyd, et. al., ignited a
firestorm of national and international protests but unless
and until legislators feel the heat of an angry public, they
will only pass a modicum of tepid bills aimed at putting out
the fire but not putting an axe to the rotted roots of the
tree.
The biggest tell will be if white America will humble
itself and take its medicine and be thoroughly brought to
heel and account for its original sin of slavery and its
continuing aftermath as evidenced by an unjust legal system,
a warped welfare system, criminality in the matter of not
dispensing taxpayer funds to the neediest and not addressing
the hot potato issue of reparations.
What is being asked of white America is to come on to
the national stage and by way of implication, the world
stage; and stand naked and confess that it devised,
concocted, manufactured and benefited from a lie that people
of color are inherently inferior to white people.
Also to admit, without reservation, that a total
historical retelling is in order regarding their brutal
treatment of the Native American tribes, people of color and
Asian Americans.
Anything less would be dishonest and would not lead to
a reconciliation of all the injured parties.
The Tulsa Massacre along with the recorded massacres
of Native Americans and other hushed genocides against
people of color including acts of violence and economic
exploitation of poor whites would require a proper
historical examination and confessional that would last for
years. Three good reads (among hundreds of extant books) on
these subjects would be the tomes entitled: Stamped from
the Beginning, The Half Has Not Been Told and When
Affirmative Action Was White.
When Herr Trump threatened imprisonment for those who
would trash American icons in the form and fashion of
Confederate statutes, he was simply saying what his base
believed and that is: White Supremacy is still the order of
the day and if he has his say so, it will remain that way!
Unless you can fully comprehend that America, from its
inception never had a plan to treat people of color as
people of equal honor or being equally made in the image of
God, you will continue to wander in abject darkness.
The Big Lie that was concocted is that America is a
white man’s country ordained by God and its manifest destiny
is for the sole benefit of the Anglo-Saxon and not the
Native American tribes, who possessed and owned the land and
who were merely speedbumps on America’s way to a shore to
shore Caucasian hegemony.
History is told to us by the victor and the victor
writes both the history books and the rule books; and if you
have a contrary understanding of what really transpired, you
are deemed a persona non gratis.
When the highest office in the land is occupied by a
person who by all accounts is an intellectual moron and is
bereft of any moral compass and is willing to do whatever it
takes to achieve his goals. That is when you see the liar
Michael Flynn being freed from any further legal prosecution
for his crimes and those who “snitch,” like Michael Cohen,
remain in jail.
It is no longer sufficient to vent and rage about the
obvious moral failings of Herr Trump or his proficiency in
lying or remark about his addled brain spewing out
incoherent sentences or he being enamored with tin horn
dictators.
That is who he is, and he no longer is even trying to
hide his disdain of minorities or the plights of the George
Floyds or the Sandra Blands or his intense envy of former
President Obama (Obama is everything Trump would want to be,
but never will be!).
Herr Trump gladly slanders Obama with the word,
traitor, and that he has committed treason (of course
without a shred of evidence and which evidence is not to be
found in a sane world). For Trump knows by simply invoking
his name, his base will howl to the moon and call for his
political scalp.
America is witnessing a decline, temporary or
otherwise, in both the quality of its civic discourse and
its inability to spot a con in its midst because the con
speaks to the evil that resides in their own hearts and as
such, Trump is a fellow traveler with them.
What will be a grave danger for this American
republic that has taken some serious hits to its gut, will
be the dangerous time frame from the results of the November
election to the time that Herr Trump is supposed to leave
public office.
He will not go quietly into the night. He will
shout, like the madman that he is, that the election was a
fraud and the deep state manufactured millions of illegal
votes and as such, until he investigates what happened, he
will, by executive order, remain in office and have William
Barr conduct an investigation.
However in the meantime between the time of the
results of the Fall election and to the proper date of the
swearing in of the new president, Herr Trump can and will
cause some serious political and economic carnage by means
of imperious executive orders and mouth slapping statements
that will have the country reeling with fear and exhaustion.
If need be, who will have the political courage to
take him by the scuff of his neck and led him to the front
door of the White House and give him the boot?
Or, will he bunker himself in the White House and issue a
call for his minions to march on Washington and save his
cowardly self from the pending state and federal criminal
indictments?
That above time frame will be fraught with political
intrigue as Trump defies the law and dares the powers that
be, to come and get him, if they dare!
My answer to the above? Simple: Buckle Up…Buttercup!
Contact Lafe Tolliver at tolliver@juno.com
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