Because I can't seem to get through to people at all, I'm worried about the future of Americans. We seem to be in a cycle of destruction/hope for the past 100 years that I know of. Reagan was a god, then he was a villain, now he's a god again. Will this happen to Trump? Are Texas teens in 40 years going to say the Trump years were America's best?
Reagan's trickle-down economics was government-imposed white supremacy. The rich got richer and the poor did not improve as promised. AIDS was rampant and the government let gay people fend for themselves, which is to say, not at all. The war on drugs unproportionaly hurt people of color in a system that is still happening today with white people getting rich of legal weed and poc still suffering in jail for the same business ventures. But somehow through all that, people are able to pretend "America" was thriving.
Trump's legacy is going to be that he helped create the first trillionaire in Bezos. Everything is awful right now. We're still struggling to make billionaires illegal and now we have to deal with trillionaires? It's too much to handle.
Ta-Nehisi Coates said that racim will always exist becuase the definition of "white" keeps changing. Supremacists gain power becuase they intrisically don't care about others. You can't become THAT rich while caring that others are working just as hard but still making the same minimum wage as they did 15 years ago. I don't mean still minimum wage, I mean the actual same dollar amount with no need to adjust for inflation. All bilionaires are white supremacists, regardless of your definition of "white."
