We as a nation must rise above

We are a nation, a world, divided via a faux sense of superiority and a complete denial of what human history has wrought. The multiple media resources that continue to spew their hateful, divisive rhetoric defy reason and logic. The absolute idiocy and arrogance of those who righteously profess “My religion, my God is better than yours,” “My gospel is the only route to salvation,” “My ideology, my politics is the better way, the right way,” “White people are superior to black people, red people, brown people, yellow people and every in between hue not deemed Caucasian” is unequivocal unadulterated nonsense. We as a nation/world must immediately recognize that throughout time the aforementioned issues that have divided multiple cultures have been perpetrated by a segment of male populations to oppress and control others along with creating wars thereby continuing intergenerational racial and ethnic hatreds.

We, the United States of America, as leader of the free world, must set the example and take the first step to end this insanity. As long as political entities and ideological zealots continue on their paths of “divide and conquer” strategies they do so with the inevitable destruction of our very fragile global societies and civilization itself.

Until we (the U.S.) adhere to the underlying meanings within the first inclusive words of the Constitution, we will never be able “to form a more perfect union.” I don’t believe the Egalitarian Society espoused within it calls for a male dominated/governed nation anymore than it should be the other way around. The reality is that in a society governed by both genders equally there is a greater sense of ownership, belonging and equality for the rest of the world to see and emulate. Let us stop deluding ourselves first so the rest of the world can follow.

Frank Rohrig

Milford