The elephant in America’s living room is inequality. It is a powerful force that threatens democracy and causes some suffering social groupings to submit to an autocratic leader.
I am an octogenarian with no fame or fortune who attended a public university to study the natural sciences. I’ve learned from experience how important it is for people and the Fourth Estate to speak truth to power in order to protect democracy.President Donald Trump says that only he can fix the country’s crime and degradation. His disdain for people he perceives as lesser serves as the foundation for this illusion, exposing an authoritarian and elitist nature. His MAGA campaign is a front to mislead and enrage those who are gullible, nervous, and naive. In order to preserve their privileged position, his affluent donors continue to be silent and complicit.
Reality contradicts the American idea that all men are created equal. Many Americans feel resentful and helpless as a result of actual disparities. Their dissatisfaction is directed by Trump’s right-wing political rhetoric and the influence of aristocracy via birth and wealth. Trump’s rhetoric plays on people’s emotions and persuades them to give up their independence and freedom in favor of a demagogue who demands obedience and makes fictitious security claims.
Both major parties are to blame for America’s egregious inequality, which reveals our democracy’s failure to live up to its principles. Each of us is a product of our upbringing and culture. The underprivileged are the voiceless victims of our capitalistic society, which is ruled by monopolies’ superior capital strength and their congressional representatives.
Prineville’s Richard Thompson
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