And the beginning of a nightmare
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”.
“The land of the free and the home of the brave.”
These are all phrases that should be familiar to all Americans and many people all over the world as well. With the second inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20, 2025, they will no longer be relevant.
On November 5, 2024, millions of people didn’t vote or could not accept a Black woman being President and voted for Trump, thus handing over our country to a group of white supremacist oligarchs who have promised to demolish the democracy we all know.
The government of the people, by the people, and for the people will become the government of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich. A government of freedom and inclusiveness will become one of hatred and divisiveness.
Even before the new administration begins, the leading players, Elon Musk, the new President of the United States, Donald Trump, the titular head of the government, and Stephen Miller, the new Deputy Chief of Staff or Minister of Propaganda, have set the priorities for the next four or more years.
They have left little doubt that they will attack transgender people and immigrants on day one of the administration. Trump’s entire 2024 campaign centered not on policies that would help people but on eliminating transgendered people, abolishing LGBTQ+ rights, voting rights, and deporting non-white immigrants.
All you need to do to see the face of hate is to look at the face of those in the Trump administration. The only differences between the Ku Klux Klan and the white Christian nationalist administration are the hoods. Thanks to the GOP, people are now free to hate and discriminate.
You can see the hate in their eyes. The similarities between these two are not only obvious but alarming. We know what happened under Joseph Goebbels and Miller has signaled what will happen with him advising Trump. And these are only two of the White supremacist Christian nationalists who will be running our government and determining our future if we are to have one.
If this country does not correct itself in the midterm elections in 2026, if elections are allowed, and Democrats don’t grow spines, we are doomed to become a nation devoid of any values and morals where we, the citizens, exist as servants of the wealthy white male oligarchs. Will that country last as long as our democracy did? It isn't very likely. When there are none of us left to hate, hate will then destroy the haters.
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