..The salient point in John Donne’s poem applies equally to a nation … United States of America … and apparently we have forgotten the salient message of Lincoln … “a house divided against itself cannot stand”…
No Man Is An Island
No man is an island,
Entire of itself,
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thy friend’s
Or of thine own were:
Any man’s death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind,
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee. … John Donne
…The divisive and hateful path currently posed by our nation’s leaders leads only to our destruction…
EVIDENCE THAT RACISM AND SEXISM WERE KEY TO TRUMP’S VICTORY
A new analysis finds attitudes about gender and race were far better predictors of support for Trump than personal economic woes
TOM JACOBS…4 HOURS AGO …To the dismay of many, President Donald Trump has amped up his racist rhetoric of late, sending out angry, misleading tweets about Latin-American immigrants. Tufts University scholar Daniel Drezner argues this is his attempt "to ensure that his loyal base supporters are sufficiently energized to come out and vote GOP in the midterms." … "The 2016 campaign witnessed a dramatic polarization in the vote choices of whites based on (their level of) education," writes a research team led by political scientist Brian Schaffner of the University of Massachusetts–Amherst. "Very little of this gap can be explained by the economic difficulties faced by less-educated whites. Rather, most of the divide appears to be associated with sexism, and denialism of racism."
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