The tRump Voters

Change in a modern culture is inevitable, but you don't have to like it. tRump voters are not comfortable with change.

America began to reshape itself in the sixties. Over the next 50 years relationships between men and women shifted. Relationships between the so-called races started to change. Music changed. Aspects of life as foundational as gender were redefined.  New methods of communication sprang up--the Internet emerged from UCLA. The nation became more pluralistic and multicultural. Marijuana became legal. The political parties realigned and lost touch. 

Many voters managed to accept what was happening and to enjoy parts of it. Others reacted with irrational hatred and sometimes violence toward women, gays, longhairs and people of color.  

Some tRump voters were merely people who always voted Republican. But others were the terrified and inflexible, those who could not stomach new rules or new people. They wanted to get rid of all that, to make America great again; that meant sending the Obamas back to Africa and Hillary to prison  It meant deporting Latino families that had been in New Mexico, Texas and California for ten generations. To these voters, the old white wing, it was a question of cultural survival. A few have become home-grown terrorists. But the changes continue, and the swings will be growing wider. 

The changes coming in the next 50 years are likely to be stunning. Global warming and technology are going to scramble human ways of life worldwide. I can't imagine the forces impacting the life of my granddaughter.