This greatness is scary

For America to be great again all we need do is turn back the clocks to a time when the great white father sat in the white house and ruled us all in patriarchal glory.

Racism was the rule. Misogyny was the norm. People died daily from things we now have pharmaceuticals to prevent (of course most people cannot afford them now.)

Pick your era and you can pick the ethnic group who was out of favor and considered barely human, the micks, the wops, the chinks, the . . . we are very good at naming scapegoats.

Mob justice picked up locally wherever the feds fell short.

We hung, burned, tar and feathered, or just shot people and it was a form of savage entertainment enjoyed by many who brought their young that they might be inculcated early on.

Abortions were illegal, but being a single mother was a sin born by a lot of virgin births.

Normal, decent, worthy people meant white protestant straight men with money and their offspring, if they conformed.

Keep people afraid, hungry, uneducated and at each other's throats and you can get by with a lot.

When people are busy looking over their shoulders for the bad people, the scary people, the different people, when people are hungry and sick and confused,  they don't notice where they are being led.

Believe me, this greatness is scary.