Turning the (USA) Ship Around

As I write this on the morning (USA time) on Thursday November 5th, the final result of the Presidential election is still on a knife-edge. One thing though is already absolutely clear, the US is deeply divided and, to highlight one element that deeply depresses me, has roughly half of those who voted voting AGAINST this statement:

all…are created equal

As you all know, this is from the absolute key line from the United States Declaration of Independence.

In Donald Trump’s mind and in his USA, things are different.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others

From “Animal Farm” by George Orwell

In Trump’s world, people like me (Male, White, Straight, English-speaking) are “more equal”. He is clearly, unabashedly, a racist, a misogynist, a homophobe, a xenophobe.

In Trump’s world, people of colour (in particular), women, LGBTQ, non-english speakers, those of faiths other than Christianity, all have less value and deserve less in his eyes, they are not equal.

My core value is FAIR, so it deeply depresses me to see that nearly half of the votes cast were for Trump, in the full knowledge that, acting in what they perceive as their self-interest, all of those voters chose to endorse his vision of an…