All that is happening will matter little if society doesn't follow through. And with the current government in charge? Society won't be allowed to follow through, the ones in power benefit too much from the current situation and will lose power if things change.
I'm with Labster, this will not be the last gasp of a dying breed of racism. That will not come for another 50 years at minimum, as those who believe it's right to be like this die off, unable to teach others that this is right. But it's part of the death throes.
Obama's message of hope and change (leaving aside how much of that happened) was a reaction on 8 years of war, despair and stagnation. Not all of which, to be fair, was Bush jr.'s fault necessarily, wars tend to have that effect on people and societies. But Trump's rise? That was definitely a reaction from the worst parts of US culture to a black man being elected to and holding the presidential office and doing a decent job at it, even pushing through a number of absolutely needed economic and social reforms despite considerable effort to prevent it.
The violence inflicted upon the protesters is an attempt to stop a social and cultural shift through fear and suffering. They may succeed, if Trump and his cronies remain seated in the White House, and if the Republicans aren't ousted from power. But unless the military gets deployed to quell an insurrection? They won't succeed for long, and even if the military gets to deployed to quell an insurrection things are poised to get very violent, very quickly across a large part of the USA.
And that is only going to make things worse. A lot worse. For everyone, including those now in power.
I'm with Labster, this will not be the last gasp of a dying breed of racism. That will not come for another 50 years at minimum, as those who believe it's right to be like this die off, unable to teach others that this is right. But it's part of the death throes.
Obama's message of hope and change (leaving aside how much of that happened) was a reaction on 8 years of war, despair and stagnation. Not all of which, to be fair, was Bush jr.'s fault necessarily, wars tend to have that effect on people and societies. But Trump's rise? That was definitely a reaction from the worst parts of US culture to a black man being elected to and holding the presidential office and doing a decent job at it, even pushing through a number of absolutely needed economic and social reforms despite considerable effort to prevent it.
The violence inflicted upon the protesters is an attempt to stop a social and cultural shift through fear and suffering. They may succeed, if Trump and his cronies remain seated in the White House, and if the Republicans aren't ousted from power. But unless the military gets deployed to quell an insurrection? They won't succeed for long, and even if the military gets to deployed to quell an insurrection things are poised to get very violent, very quickly across a large part of the USA.
And that is only going to make things worse. A lot worse. For everyone, including those now in power.