To the Editor:
In all my many years, I’ve never been so ashamed of my fellow/sister Americans as I’ve been of those who saddled me with the loveless lunatic Donald Trump as president. I won’t recount his crimes against us; if you don’t already know them, you’ve been living on another planet; and if you’re not abhorred by them, you’ve lost all sensibility. To everyone else, the good news is that Trump’s moment is over.
From its founding, our country has been controlled by the WASP capitalist class, a comparatively small group that has consistently steered policy to its advantage. The inevitable outcome has been, in what passes for a democratic society, the most extreme economic inequality in our history. But as doggedly as the wealthy minority clings to its power and privilege, they can’t last. And the revolution has begun; the underclasses — particularly African-Americans — are coming to the fore, demanding the equality our alleged democracy guarantees. To succeed in his bid for the presidency, history has forced Joe Biden into the unprecedented choice of a Black woman, Kamala Harris, as his running mate — whether or not it’s his predilection. At the same time, other Black and Latino women, such as Stacey Abrams, Ayana Pressley, and Alexandria Casio-Cortez, are ascending to, or vieing for, the seats of political power — with an army of their counterparts right behind them.
If there is to be progressive change, it will be driven by the disinherited, since the ruling minority will employ all the power of its wealth to derail it. This will come as no surprise to anyone who has not been propagandized out of Marxist assertion: Class struggle is real, and it dictates the course of history. And rarely in our history has this struggle been so intense, the “Black Lives Matter” movement giving only a hint of it.
However you are politically disposed, you can be sure that tomorrow will look radically different from today — the first notable change being an end to the dark night orchestrated by the mindless and deranged Donald Trump.
Andrew Torre,
Londonderry
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