The Experiment of Democracy is over and Reality has set in

Winter weather has finally arrived across America. Coats, sweaters, and knitted caps are being dug out of the closets. The birds that puke on my car has flown further south and the cat that sits on my hood has found a warmer place to stalk his prey.  This year is rapidly coming to an end and 2017 promises to be the most challenging in American history.

You may wonder why the New Year will offer more challenges than usual and I will attempt to put that question into a realistic perspective. Perspective is one of those things that are subjective to the viewer and unless you are sleep and not staying woke to the changes in our society you may have missed a few subtle changes that are irrefutable.

We now live in a society where the notion of “Political Correctness” is under attack. Facts are no longer accepted but rather merely offer a springboard for someone to offer an alternative and completely opposite opinion. You know the old adage, “Opinions are like a-holes, everybody has one.” Facts and truth are now relegated to who has the strongest opinion on any given subject.

The founding fathers were no different than the leaders of today but with one advantage that has gone unresolved for over 200 years. They strove to establish a more perfect union without defining exactly what that union would look like. They did not have to grovel with “Political Correctness” because whatever they agreed upon was enacted into the Constitution and thereby giving a basis for what we now know as “The Bill of Rights.” It was true in 1776 and it’s true in 2016. There is no law or privilege governing anyone who would subsequently step foot on the shores of America that would supersede that of a White landowners in this New Found Democracy called America. That was their ideology then and that thread of reality is woven into every law or ordinance that has been placed on the books every since.

Yes, there have been times when Blacks, Mexicans, and Native Americans have had their suffrage eased momentarily, but then some vigilant “Constitutionalist” would rise up and remind America that the Founding Fathers did not intend for it to be that way. Now fast forward to November 4, 2008, and we can begin to see more clearly what has happened to this experiment called Democracy.

In January 2009, the 44^th President of the United States Barack Obama tried to fulfill a promise he had made on the campaign trail to put internet connections in every school and every rural community in America. You would think on the surface that such a proposal would go over well in a society that invented the internet and was embarking vigilantly into the 21^st century. To show the importance of internet access and to involve the millennials and get the youth involved, Obama planned a “Live Stream” broadcast to schools across America  and the racist society which was hidden just beneath the surface of Democracy went nuts. I’m assuming you are aware that Barack Obama is identified as being a Black man.

“Political Correctness” tried aggressively to convince us that we were now living in a “Post-Racial” society because after all, “We just elected a Black man as president.” You know how that went. For eight years Obama was obstructed even to the point that in his final year in office his opposition refused to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court. That decision by Mitch McConnell more than anything else the Republican Party had done or not done up until that point solidified the Constitutionalist that, “There is no right that a Black man has that a White man is bound to respect. When you hear the phrases, “Take Our Country Back” and, “Make America Great Again,” don’t be confused about exactly what these people are advocating. Yes, America has made great strides in race relations. Yes, America elected its first Black president. But, the idea of following that up by electing the first woman president was too much for this fragile Democracy to endure.

Rather than to embrace the creed inscribed on the Statue of Liberty, America resorted to its default position on bigotry, racism, sexism and pride. You may ask “PRIDE?” Yes, pride. Remember, the founding fathers intended for wealthy land owners to have control of this Democracy. Who more represented the image of a wealthy land owner vying for control of the hearts and minds of a gullible society who would believe a lie faster than they would the truth?  America’s Constitution which is a living breathing document is solely responsible for
producing and giving us Donald J. Trump.