AMERICAN CUPIDITY

AMERICAN CUPIDITY ELECTED TRUMP Wednesday, April 05, 2017 By Rev. Dr. Larry Delano Coleman Cupidity rhymes with stupidity for a reason. One follows the other, as day follows the night. I am referring here to American cupidity. American “cupidity” elected Donald Trump, President. Cupidity means being greedy, avaricious, rapacious. The “dumbing down of America,” so long discussed, as though it were a form of some foreign invasive species, was again resurgent in November 2016. You had, on the surface, a rich, white, New York, Republican man, Trump cast against a rich white, New York, Democrat woman, Hillary Clinton, following the two-term Barack Obama Presidency, an erudite, now-wealthy Chicago, black man. But, beneath the surface abided traditional, yet new, unresolved issues of post-Obama American identity including “gender,” legal privilege, global police power, and the equitable redistribution of wealth. The Russians seized upon this fleshy opportunity to not just “stand by their man,” their mega-debtor, billionaire, Donald Trump, but to elect Donald Trump. This act promoted favorable American “regime change,” without violence, through America’s electoral process. To do so they exploited fissures in American history. Those fissures that include race, class, foreign migrants, money, Muslims, terrorism, and dumbing-down! “The USIC and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) assess that it would be extremely difficult for someone, including a nation-state actor, to alter actual ballot counts or election results by cyber attack or intrusion. This assessment is based on the decentralized nature of our election system in this country and the number of protections state and local election officials have in place. States ensure that voting machines are not connected to the Internet, and there are numerous checks and balances as well as extensive oversight at multiple levels built into our election process.” The above quote is from government report dated October 7, 2016. Comparable to the 9/11/2001 terror attack upon New York City, is political-neophyte, Donald Trump’s improbable election as America’s forty-fifth President. While Russia deserves credit for political savvy, the blame, if any, is in unresolved fissures in American society, itself, to which it shall remain exploitable, until they are definitely resolved in hearts and minds. #30