Three Americas
In the aftermath of the electioneering, that seemed to have scrambled the minds of half the population, it has cemented my belief that there are three Americas. First there is the one that is viewed from the lens of the elite. I'm not real sure that there is a true dollar figure that you can put on that elite status but the truth is they don't think like the rest of us. Then you have the middle classes. They run a wide gamut of income ranges from approximately 40-400 thousand a year between upper and lower. Really dependent upon thought rather than income that places them there. There is also the poor, who are sometimes only poor in spirit, but America's poor are infinitely better off than the rest of the world because of the dearth of government programs that dispense.
I believe that the elite have ingrained in them that they are our betters. Wealth can give you a sense of being and I suppose that great wealth magnifies it to an extreme where you become impervious to truth in a sense that what you believe must be truth, like Pilate asking "what is truth" (i.e. see man-made global warming). The term "coastal elite" was bandied about during the election but it's only a half-truth. Elitism is mostly a way of life, and is generally ingrained from childhood, as seen in the petulance of people like Jeb Bush and his disdain of the power of Trump's campaign. Flitting around in privacy except when their mission is public and then you MUST PAY ATTENTION.
The middle classes are such a disparate group that descriptions would take up the whole paper. I believe that if you have ever worried about paying for tires (or any other commodity) instead of the power bill then you are or have been middle class. I know that's a pretty simple description but I think it fits. We run the whole spectrum of political persuasions that don't fit the banners designed for us to follow. We who struggle and have struggled are tied to others in ways that the elite can't have forgotten to understand.
I work, I pay BJ's for tires, they pay help, help shops locally, local merchants are able to pass that along, etc. Most of us have or have had a sense of community in that we know the people we commerce with. We tend to be patriotic, God fearing, big government leery except when it's in our favor, and mostly try and stay out of trouble with LE. Ours is the voice that the elite fear, when we are awake and paying attention. That's why most idiot box programming is designed to keep us from paying attention.
I'm not sure how to describe America's poor. Jesus said "we'll always have them" and I'm positive of it too, but to be labeled poor in America must look like royalty sometimes to others across the world. I know that there are those in our own community that have relatively nothing because I have visited them but to be completely without is different. When you visit other countries and see their poor it gives you a different definition. Being without certain things doesn't make you poor. It can make you homeless, jobless, or broke, but not poor. I have never been poor, and I sometimes remember to thank God for that, but also ask how I can help them.
The three can come together, like as at first, to help make this country what it was intended to be. A beacon of a Republic where you have God given rights designed to make all equal. Not a hyphenated conglomeration of special interests feeding from a trough big enough to dispel homelessness and hunger if used correctly. I still hold out hope for that. At the moment they all seem to be at each other’s throats. Until next week. ags.
