Thanks, Donald Trump, for helping us re-examine the underbelly of this nation!

 

OPINION

When you take a second look at something, it gives you the opportunity to fix it, to check it, to use a microscope. Perhaps it was not his intent, but Trump has hastened us to fix the hate, vitriol, health, and history of our country. He has exposed the hidden, seamy, shithole side covered by a suited, pseudo-millionaire costume flanked by hat wearing, flag toting extremists. 

If we don't take this chance, we doom ourselves.

In order to help myself do this task, I'm looking inside the thoughts of Trump's loyal, violent supporters, starting with the KKK. Now reading The Ku Klux Klan: or, Invisible Empire (https://books.google.com/books?id=1YMfAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false) by Laura Martin Rose, a copy which was put in every southern school library by the Daughters of the Confederacy in the early 20th century and now can be read free online.

Next, I'm gonna take a look at Ku Klux Klan Secrets Exposed: Attitude Toward Jews, Catholics, Foreigners and Masons; Fraudulent Methods Used; Atrocities Committed in Name of Order (https://books.google.com/books?id=cSzDDwAAQBAJ) by Ezra A. Cook. Then  The Ku Klux Klan Unmasked, by W. C. Wright. 

The Turner Diaries explained (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311760245_The_Turner_Legacy_The_Storied_Origins_and_Enduring_Impact_of_White_Nationalism%27s_Deadly_Bible) and interviews of Timothy McVeigh would be two other examination spots. All these give an idea of what white supremacists believe. 

And we can't stop there. We've got to read what Trump has said and done, as well as his Father Fred and his son, Junior, and his unpaid this week lawyer, Rudy. Someone smarter than Trump will replace him at the head of the white supremacist bandwagon, and we've got to be ready.

You may say that reading and researching white supremacy is a little extreme, but I run into folks that have been indoctrinated by this garbage, and I need to know what I'm up against. While in a grocery store shopping line which a white woman was breaking, when I confronted her, she yelled, "Survival of the fittest." 

If I investigate where "these people" are coming from, some who have been described by Capitol Police as "foaming at the mouth... with pitchforks," maybe I can protect and defend myself. They won't be able to hide anymore. Knowledge is power!

Again, thanks Trump for moving me to check white supremacy out.