America, I Have Some Concerns, and Five Big Questions
Please let me know all your answers
There’s something happening here
Dear America,
Who are you?
In the divided states of America right now, a reckoning of race, but also of class, gender, wealth, and more, roils on before us in an explosive blur. Since the failed ‘coup’, ‘insurrection,’ ‘riot’ or ‘storming’ at our nation’s capital on January 6, I have seen and heard many perspectives.
Here are just some:
This is not America
This is what America actually is
This is broken democracy
This is the beginning of democracy
This is white supremacy
This proves the failure of white supremacy
This is Trump’s final victory
This is Trump’s miserable end
I do understand (I am a psychologist) that human beings think in the binary, and operate in delusion, due to our human vulnerabilities, but this is too much. It’s time to try to find facts, answers, and evidence to what we really are. If we are hopeless, ugly, and bigoted racists and misogynists, let’s start rolling the ball toward admitting it…
