There is an ugliness in the land.....

[stuarttman63]

7. The chickens have come to roost

The ugliness is a profound regurgitation of what has always been here since white settlers came to this land. It's now unbridled and unfurled for all the world to see. It's racism, plain and simple. When this country was first founded, although it was never said explicitly by anyone but the Confederates, it was founded on a bedrock of racist attitudes and the idea that the truest citizens of the country were white. All the laws, folkways and hidden covenants were supposed to be for the benefit of the white population. This had only begun to change in the early sixties with the passage of the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act and the change in immigration policy which had previously favored immigration from caucasian countries. Over the last fifty years, the white supremacy crowd has seen America become a more equal society and they fear the loss of their position in society along with all of its privileges. This fear fuels their hatred of the federal government and their desire to make it so small that it, in the words of Grover Norquist, can be drowned in a bathtub. Indeed, the changing demographics in this country make the white supremacy voter cringe. They turn to such candidates as Trump as their last savior, someone they believe will restore white supremacy in this country and, as they put it more obliquely, "make America great again."