White America’s ‘Broken Heart’

[FrenchieCat]

Much of the energy on both the left and the right this cycle is coming from white Americans who are rejecting the direction of America and its institutions. There is a profound disappointment. On one hand, it’s about fear of dislocation of supremacy, and the surrendering of power and the security it provides. On the other hand, it’s about disillusionment that the game is rigged and the turf is tilted. It is about defining who created this country’s bounty and who has most benefited from it.

White America is wrestling with itself, torn between two increasingly distant visions and philosophies, trying to figure out if the country should retreat from its present course or be remade.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/02/04/opinion/white-americas-broken-heart.html?_r=0&referer=

[DonCoquixote]

1. true that

however, there is one ugly fact all of us, regardless of creed or color have to deal with, and that is that Asia, Latin America and to some extent, Russia, sees all of us as the people that are in the way. They will happily give every American a nervous breakdown unless we unite and actually learn to make that common future and share it.