I Know Crazy!!

      There are a few days before we elect a new president. The country has gone mad, with the two humans, seeking new employment.
      The choices seem beyond clear to me. You choose crazy, because you are familiar with these kinds of people, or you choose a shady lady, who can run this country with her hands tied behind her back. I use shady only for the fact that it rhymes with lady! The email scandal, is a mute point to me. I think she and Bill may have bodies in the basement??? Eleanor Roosevelt had them also, skeletons rattling every room, she should have been president. Barbara Bush could have whipped this country into shape. Women in the White House, are strong, beautiful people. We need a women to wrangle all these crazies out there.
     But to be fair, I always do my research.
                             Who are these people willing to vote for this man? I have to know. So I decided to read, White Trash. The 400-year Untold History of Class In America, by Nancy Isenberg. ( no, not everyone fits into a category, but there is a huge vein of very bottom of the barrel looking people at Trump's speeches) ( Maybe the word is "simple", I am trying not to offend the multitudes, a woman wearing a t-shirt with an arrow pointing to her private parts, saying "Trump can touch this!" is trash.")
( Seedy, Igno? are these adjectives selective? of the whole)( I can only write from my voice)
                      This book, should be read in all history classes, high school or college, it is so fascinating. With or without an election, to bring this story to my attention.
        I think the word trash makes it crude, no one is trash, its how the class came into being, and the many terms that have been used over the past 400 years. Since England shipped us all there thieves and other loose change people!!! Classes of people, seem to revolve around land ownership, maybe still to this day. Where we live, how much education we have, work ethic, ability to do better than your parents.
        This is not an easy book to read, but it is a journey we all need to take. It is easy to look at a person, and judge, I confess to that 100%, but I did my reading and have a better understanding of my looking at this group of Trump people, in not such a harsh light. It is an insurmountable task to raise up people from poverty and ignorance, but I believe you can.  I have come to learn that cotton fields, made the south rich and poor at the same time, we had no food!!! only cotton!! I read that White Trash was not just a southern term, pockets of poor people were all over. There was a name of prairie dirt farmers, and oil monkeys from up north(thinking all worked in steel mills and factories). Piney woods people, and Sandhillers, were named that because of the land they lived on. Poor white people were cursed because they were consigned to the worst land. Highly inbred, (think !!not many people on the colonies!) alcohol and dirt. In 1755 poor people had to wear badges, women were just for breeding, slavery corrupted all white men, rich and poor. Puritans were obsessed with class rank, the church right at the top!! Who sat in the front of the church nearest the preacher, now they were special. Being without land, owning property separated everyone.
       This book covers 400 years, so I just touched on a few pages.
       The anger and ignorance that never goes away, baffles me.
       All people have worth, White trash, or Thugs is just a name, for waste and I do not believe in waste.
       However, I was interested in its origin and why I come away from listening and looking at Donald Trumps backers freaks me out. ( they probably say the same about my liberal la-la self)
       I , at least, try to understand. I have people I love, that probably have voted for him. I love them for a reason, I just don't understand their choice.
       Take the time to think about us at a whole, and how we can grow together.
       Read this book, and a million others, about our country and how it came to be.
       Be a part of the solution.
       And I will try not to judge so harshly, but come on....The lady with the arrow pointing to her VaJayJay!! This is going to be hard, but I know Crazy, so I will try harder.