Trump-White

(Caveat Emptor: This piece has a bias,  a bias against ignorance, stupidity and hate no matter the color).

-O-

Look at every news photo or video clip of the “open-up” protestors, armed to the teeth, wearing their patriotism – their red white and blue clothing, which – by the way – is considered a desecration of the flag.

Look at them dressed in outlandish “Mad Max” costumes, hear their hate-filled shouts from under red hats, a symbol now as universal in its meaning as the swastika or the hammer and sickle.

See and hear all of that and you are struck by one thing.

Again, and again, you are struck by one thing.

They are all — all, all, all — all white people.

You can parse it this way or that, examine it that way and this, but the inescapable conclusion is that the problem in this country, the political divide between those who think, dare and accept life’s challenges and those who refuse to think, who live instead in an apocalyptic bubble blown up for them by this rump Republican Party  — and connivingly delivered to them daily by their prophet, Trump — is a divide between a big slice of its white people and everyone else, everyone else.

They are Trump-white.

Except for Uncle Ben Carson, have you seen a black person or any other minority person among all the people used by Trump as scenery during his briefings, news conferences, and staged factory visits sans mask during the crisis?

No, of course not. He doesn’t know any. He doesn’t like them. He fears them. He hates them — as do his crazed supporters.

You see minority group reporters in the press corps asking questions of him in the Rose Garden and being attacked in the exchange.

But the only people those reporters are looking at with and around Trump are white people among who, except for the now-disappeared inconvenient Dr. Brix, all are white men — middle-aged and old white men.

Donald Trump among other things is a creature frozen in time, frozen in the 1950s, with all that portends in the tilted, stilted culture of that decade regarding gender and race.

Of course, there are millions of white people on the smart side of this remarkable American political chasm — as are very nearly all African-Americans, and very much the majority of Latino/Latina Americans, and Asian Americans.

But white people on the democratic, informed, educated, thinking side of the great cultural and educational divide are a minority among whites, else-wise Trump would not poll at 43% (give or take).

I doubt even one in 20 of the people I know own a firearm. None of them have ever had to worry about police breaking into their homes and murdering them, or had to flee two angry, armed racist vigilantes. Soon, the rest of us may have to worry about that as well. These things are permitted by Trump and the threat of his Trump-white mob, a cudgel held over civil society.

Think then what all the non-white people in this nation must think when they see the Trump-white mobs raging and carrying on in ways that would surely, would definitely land them in a heap of trouble with cops, earn prosecution from white prosecutors and see them sentenced by white judges.

It is beyond rare to glimpse a member of a minority group in the armed hate-filled, raging hordes descending on State Houses or among the large white men and women bellying up with large bellies to bars in Wisconsin, Texas, and like states — many apparently unable to drink a beer unless they are armed.

Mostly, almost entirely this entire dystopian world of the grotesque social and political divide that poisons the United States is about one thing.

It is about ignorant, left-behind, frightened, incapable Trump-white people resentful of non-white people. The Trump-white are used by well set, well fixed powerful white men to bully their way to control government, money, and to direct Trump-white hate.

They reinforce and deliver their message through the megaphone of an extreme right propaganda machine on television and radio on which only white faces are seen and white voices heard.

Imagine what these images of Trump-white armed crowds look like across the oceans. They look like the United States is a dark, sad, sick, chaotic cartoon; not a powerful nation but one wrecked and vanquished – vanquished by Trump-white.

This new and next American Century? It’s been all but lost. It took 56 presidential terms of office to make this nation what it was. It has taken but part of this one to wreck it.

We may not get back the century given the damage but we must get back the White House.

Come Nov. 5, vote.

The century depends on it.