The Fight for the Middle

The Fight for the Middle
Wayne D. King

If anyone is unclear at this point, let me be perfectly clear. . . 50% of the people or more who supported Trump in the election are not going to be reached by any argument or act. We have watched them interviewed in diners in Pennsylvania and W. Virginia and on a thousand tv and radio stations. They are frightened by the fear-mongering of candidate and now President Trump and the coterie of altNews, AltFacts and AltRight he has drawn around himself with the help of Steve Bannon and Kelly Ann Conway. They are angry at being left behind by a world that is shifting under their feet.

If their minds are to be changed it will only happen over time when they learn that Trump has "punked" them. The very fact that on day one he signed an executive order that made the cost of buying a home for lower and middle income people $500.00 more expensive might have been a good warning but Trump slipped that one under their radar.

The battle is going to be for those who voted for Trump reluctantly, those who did not vote, and those who voted for Hillary Clinton reluctantly. We want these people protesting in the streets with the rest of us. Not in support of one party or another but in support of the American constitution and American ideals. Only then will we have a chance of stopping this outrage before it spreads roots that are too deep to pull out easily.

We must put the "fear of the people" into the hearts of Republican AND Democratic elected officials who would walk away from the ACA, or the gains in human rights, LGBTQ rights and religious freedom made under the Obama administration and from the challenge of reversing the income disparity that has led us to this place and time.

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