People love him or hate him. Both positions are tiresome.
How about this? The president is the symptom of our collective unfinished business. He is the extraordinary presence of patriarchy run amuck.
And while the truth of his fortunes or his losses, may never be known, we can know this with great certainty: our glorifications of greed and power created this perfect storm. We picked the one who most exemplified what we collectively cherish.
It is the culmination of a history filled with the abuse of power. In refusing to rectify our past, we use the excuse of “law and order” to maintain dominance. In climbing the ladder of success we have become numb to those of lessor means. We believe in the god of money and power is the necessary evil we accept.
The voices that disagree with this assessment are too often mired by compromise. They may want the “Green New Deal”, but are willing to forego it to benefit their pocketbooks and maintain their energy use or so called
“way of life”. They may know that “Black Lives Matter”, but are sure that equality will come over time. No need to fight for it.
Too many of us are ready to put these ugly four years behind us and carry on. Carry on with an economy that benefits the rich; carry on with the divide that is the breeding ground for hunger, sickness and death. Carry on with the destruction of the earth. Carry on with the status quo. It’s easy to blame Trump and not deal with our own entanglements and not reconcile our history.
But these compromises will continue to defeat us.
And reconciliation will continue to await us.
There is no other way.
***The photo is of indigenous corn. The phrase “Can you grow corn with it?” is asked regarding the practicality of an idea…we have unfinished business. Let’s get on with it.
let kindness win 