When Right is Wrong

I just listened to a news program where callers got to air their politics.  I was revolted as one man called to state that the colored President was the problem with our country.  He went on to blame coloreds and Mexicans and the program thankfully ended his air time.

I just got an email comparing the lack of military experience of Kim Jong Un of North Korea to the lack of military experience of Barack Obama, calling the former President a community organizer with no experience.

I wrote this response to my former boss:

Are you totally oblivious to the fact that our current President has no military or political experience, but is in fact a liar and a business cheat?  President Obama is a constitutional lawyer and was a Senator before becoming President.  I am stunned at this meme given that I cannot imagine a worse President in history than the immoral imbecile now in office.  The spread of this divisive material is how Americans lost their ability to think rationally and ended up brainwashed by alt-right rhetoric.

Only problem, I did not send it.  He thinks I don't mind the horrible things he says because I just ignore him.

My cousin voted for this repugnant idiot and I cannot understand how divided we have become as a nation, because these are as far as I can tell decent and smart people.

Yet, I can no longer have a conversation with them because we would end up losing our relationship.

I am angry that they have done this evil thing, to America, to my country.  Political differences I can understand, but electing an unqualified, immoral, sexual predator, a racist and thug to lead America at a time when the world needs reason and diplomacy more than ever, well this is unforgivable.

The American Civil War was at a time when political and economic ideology was deeply polarized in America.  People could not understand each other at all and the north went to war with the south.  Brother fought against brother, and cousin against cousin.  Bosses found themselves at war against their former colleagues, as our military became divided into warring factions.

Where do we go from here?  One of those prejudiced callers lamented that this is no longer America. I'm not so sure about that.