American society; what’s wrong with us?

Is our society unraveling?  Besides suffering under this incredibly-deadly viral-pandemic, with a death toll exceeding 89,000, with nearly one and a half million people infected by Covid-19, and growing exponentially, there’s a hunger crises in America, we’re close to an economic collapse, we’re in despair.  People are fearful, angry, some acting-out badly, refusing to abide by restrictions imposed to protect the public, our neighbors.  As healthcare workers are endangering their own lives to save others, angry, armed-protesters, turned terrorists, are storming Capitol buildings across the country, some carrying Confederate flags, nooses & swastikas.  Michigan Gov. Grethen Whitmer said, “Some of the outrageousness of what’s happened at our Capitol depicted some of the worst racism and awful parts of history in this country”.   In further demonstration of president Trump’s abject failure of leadership, he’s defended these people, who by earlier tweets he’d incited to insurrection, to “liberate” their states.   Trump has completely fallen-down on getting testing & tracing measures underway; he’s disregarded, even fired vaccine-experts & scientists;  he’s invoked the Defense Production Act to order workers (mainly minorities & immigrants) back to jobs at animal-butchering & packing plants, despite increasing infections in those plants, virtually spreading the virus to other community members, causing more deaths.

Reports in several states have people visiting stores, attacking employees who try to enforce mask-requirements; some of those miscreants have spit on employees, licked packages, and spat on police officers called to the scenes.  One woman, upset by a Family Dollar guard’s insistence that her daughter wear a mask, argued and spit on him, returned with her husband, and son, who shot & killed the store-employee.  People who’ve never read any parts of the U.S. Constitution, declare that these measures infringe on their constitutional rights.  Americans murdering fellow-Americans.  Trump IS a war-time president.  The War is ON America, and Trump is presiding and urging it on.  American Carnage!

In 21st century America, an innocent man was murdered in Georgia; his crime: running while being black!  IMAGINE!  The murderers of 25 year-old, Ahmaud Arbery, were known on 2/23/20, when the white, former police detective and his son called 911 to report “a black man running”.   It took 74 days & much pressure for arrests to occur, even though a video had surfaced showing Arbery attacked while jogging.   In Georgia, one cannot claim self-defense if they provoked the altercation.   There is a soul-sickness in our country, and many are terminally-afflicted!

Trish Forsyth Voss