Lighting the Fuse

 A MASSIVE CRIME WAVE currently grips the United States, consisting of hate crimes, cyber computer crimes, and mass murders. Is a huge crime wave a precursor to a revolution? Revolutions generally occur when the overall situation in a country becomes so desperate that revolution is the only alternative. More than one astute analyst has suggested that the United States may currently steadily approaching that point.Symptoms include: widespread social upheaval, violence, economic collapse, major portions of the population alienated and disengaged from society in general. In America, we seem to have a lot of all of that, and then some, right about now.  Finally an alienated angry portion of the electorate elects a mouthy demagogue, who proclaims the media the "enemy of the people". the demagogue attacks society's most trusted institutions, and the people lose trust in them. The demagogue is supported by the wealthy elite, as well as by the military, the police, and the religious establishment. Against all this, popular resentment gradually but steadily grows as an increasingly concentrated wealthy class drives tens of millions of people into poverty. By rejecting Trump, the United States took a big and welcome step back from the abyss. But unfortunately, Trump isn't done, and neither are his angry, irrational supporters. Any future American revolutions should be progressive in nature, not regressively authoritarian. Under Trump, the rich got richer, climate climate was ignored and denied, America first became America alone, civilized diplomacy with other countries came to a standstill, an a pandemic raged out of control. We must never return to that horrible state of affairs. It isn't only Trump which must be stopped. it is the crazy conservative agenda which ignores climate change and cuts taxes for the wealthy. Definitely not what we need. The far right is trying to impose an agenda on America that America truly does not want, but has yet to rise up and stop. We need national legislation overturning voter suppression, and making voting easier, not hard, all over these great United States. We simply cannot afford to keep the status quo, economically, politically, or socially. Too many people are systemically excluded; the systms must be fundamentally reformed, overhauled, replaced, whatever works. What we have now does not work. WE must expand democracy, get as many people as possible to vote, and to vote for the best interests of the people, not the corporate elite, voting to fight and reverse climate change, tax teh wealthy corporations, and raise wages for the workers.   In essence, make middle class America great, again.