DEFEAT FASCISM

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Parties change. People do too. When I was about 6 six years old, I first noticed people talking about politics. I asked my sister what would happen if Dwight Eisenhower were to be elected president. Her reply? “We will have another depression and Mother and Daddy will lose our grocery store and we’ll all go hungry.”

That scared me, so I began to pay attention. Of course all we got were long periods of boredom punctuated by racial tension and fear of nuclear war. Oh, and the defeat of McCarthyism and the forced integration of a major southern high school. By the time I was 18, JFK was saying “Ask not what your country can for you but what you can do for your country.” That was one of the most eloquent and encouraging lines ever uttered by a president.

Now, say a lad was 6 years old in 2016. When he reaches the age of 18, and is ready for the world, all he will ever have known about American politics will be Donald Trump. Whether in or out of office, barring unforeseen occurrences, Trump will have dominated the front page of almost every daily newspaper and been the subject of all nightly news and entertainment venues.

Unless our chap is highly educated, he will believe this is how government is supposed to work. If he is homeschooled by true believers or the product of an evangelist private school, (both funded partly by state taxes in my state) he may believe it is his god's will that things are as they are. If he is a product of a starved-to-the-bone public school system, he may be tuned to accept life as an Orwellian "prole."

Just think about that for a moment. Share at will.