We Americans are in turmoil because the election of Trump has caused overnight a complete reversal of our political roles. In the past, the rough and uneducated white American was bitter against the enormous power of Washington and demanded “states rights”. For the educated liberal democrats composed of whites and people of all colors and ethnic origins, “states rights” meant little more than the horrible practice of hanging African-Americans in the post bellum southern states. Now the people who were once for “states rights” have morphed into brute nationalists. They are in the White House and they want Trump’s government to prove to the world that the US is nothing more than a nation by building a wall on the Mexican border and expelling 3 million illegal immigrants. The US will continue to be a force for global unity but at home it has the possibility of gaining power by bullying actions against the rights of both its citizens and its states. Overnight, just like that, liberals must become passionate about demanding “states rights” because a nationalistic Federal Government would be a drastic political perversion of the correct moral and patriotic direction of our union’s history. American liberals have always also found it not comme il faut to ever refer to America as a union of states. They will be forced now to recognize at last that they live in a union of states if the strongest defense they find against an extreme right-wing government in Washington is “states rights”.
Read the struggle for freedom in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" at:usoftheworld.com/perpetual-baseball
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