Slavery was not an American invention. In Ancient Egypt, as early 26th century BC, documented evidence exists that prisoners of war would be forced be used to perform labor. Slavery made things good for the entitled families of Ancient Egypt. The same was true here in the United States from 1619 until 1865. One could extend that date to 1965 and the Civil Rights movement. Plantation owners had it good because of the institution of legal slavery. They fought a war to try and keep that way of life here. It was America’s bloodiest war.
In the Bible, it is said that twelve tribes of people who would later become the founders of the monotheistic Jewish people, were among the Egyptian slaves; an enslavement that lasted 400 years. In Exodus Moses, who had become close to the Pharoah Ramses, demanded that he set his people free. Exodus is the uplifting story of an enslaved people being liberated.
You would not expect Pharoah to agree to set his slaves free. Pharoahs were the entitled royalty and enjoyed a better life style than the slaves owing directly to the free work that slaves did for them. Enslaved people need a brave champion for thier causes.
And this is why America needs a member of an oppressed group to lead it forward during this crisis we, and the rest of the world is facing right now. What crisis? There are a few, but the big one is income inequality.
Income Inequality
Money has become the way people can afford not to be slaves today. If you don’t have enough income or stored money to pay for your home and food, you are forced to work longer hours. There is nothing wrong with work, or serving others. Work is how humans acquire their value to others. However, in a capitalistic society, when the gap between between what people earn for serving others becomes so large that working normal hours for a living does not provide for the good things in life and a retirement for the majority of people, then that societal structure begins to border on a form of slavery – economic slavery. And that is where too many world-citizens find themselves today.
When you think about the past presidents of the United States, one thing is certainly true of them all: they were entitled from youth. Yes, Barack Obama was bi-racial, but his mother, Anne Durham, was the vice-president of a bank. Obama went to the best private school in Hawaii. He grew up in the middle class. He got a scholarship to Harvard undergrad, and borrowed $43,000 to get his law degree. For many reasons, Obama never became a great champion for working people during his presidency.
The best days for the middle-class in the USA were enjoyed by my generation, the baby boomers. Starting about during the Reagan presidency, during the eighties, laws changed that allowed corporations and personal wealth to grow almost unchecked. The wealth gap began to spiral and the gripes of the “forgotten men” began in the 80’s. Forty years later, those economic gripes resonate not only among working class people, but in the middle class as well.
And just like you would not expect the Pharoahs to willingly let his slaves go, the wealthiest people today don’t want their financial slaves to be set free. Trump serves as their champion to keep the status quo.
Donald Trump grew up as one of the richest young men in America. He never had to work for a living or experienced financial struggling. So why on earth would someone expect him to have empathy with people that must work two jobs to get by? Trump knows that’s why his life has existed on easy street. Others work, so I don’t have to is his way of thinking.
I grew up in the same generation as Donald Trump. I knew him from Wharton and AC NJ. He was so entitled, I don’t think he’s ever cooked himself breakfast. I have no idea why anyone, even a MAGA person, thinks Donald Trump is a champion for their gripes. He is the opposite.
After forty years of our governement selling out to the wealthy, white working-class people, men and women, need a person who can indentify with and has empathy for their struggles. You would not expect the Pharoahs to set their people free, would you? So why would anyone expect Trump to liberate the working class people of America.
Specifically because Kamala Harris did not grow up with a sense of entitlement, she understands the plight of the working class. That is only half of the formula. Does she have a track record of helping people in financial need? Yes! She did deliver to Calfornians when during the 2008 financial meltdown, banks wanted the right to take the homes of people they wronged.
There are two groups of people that do not have a stake in seeing others fare better in this country; the heartless within the entitled ruling class or top one percent and the greedy heartless within our government. Donald Trump belonged to both those groups during his presidency.
After forty years of Congress bending tax policies and laws to benefit those who have the most wealth, Kamala Harris, a person with a heart for our hardest working people and a resume of helping others, is exactly what America needs now. This applies to all Americans – Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Middle Easterners, Native Americans, and any minority class. But it also particularly applies for hard-working white folks in the middle class, who have not had a real champion for their causes in a very long time.
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