Fighting Demographics

ALTHOUGH THE U.S.A. HAS ALWAYS been multi ethnic, multi colored, and multi religious, it has also always been, in a very real sense, a country of white Christian men. "White" people were once a high percentage majority, of course, but no longer are. Already less than fifty percent of America is white, or European caucasian, or whatever term is best, since "white" is the color of paper, not human skin. The percentage of white America can only continue to decrease, as immigration brings in millions of Asians and Hispanics, and the white birth rate stagnates and declines. That's why the U.S. so badly needs immigrants. Immigrants tend to be young, and the U.S. is a rapidly aging country, running out of young people, running out of workers to pay for the social security and medical expenses of the nation's huge and growing elderly population. Not only is the white conservative Christian declining numerically as a percentage of total population, his political and economic power are similarly eroding. Equal justice movements of the past half century have brought African-Americans and women to the forefront, and now the LGBTQs, Hispanics, and Asians are running for political office, getting more education, achieving more upward mobility, and generally turning American society into a multicultural and ethnically diverse mix with equally diverse political, economic, and social leadership. The white American male feels threatened, a sense of being replaced, of being relegated to less than first class status in a country he had long since come to believe belonged to him. And that is why the conservative Christian white male is so angry. This anger is manifested in all the anti immigrant activity, voter suppression movements, and especially the white nationalist movement which has emerged since Trump became president. the most obvious and most extreme manifestation of white male anger is the election and presidency of Trump himself, who embraces and encourages all the various forms of white male anger. Like a fever, it will probably run its course, and white male American men will come to accept their new status, as co equals in a diverse society, rather than masters.