The political divide in America can be explained by a basic story. You are a white, non college-educated man. You are standing in a long, long line waiting for what you deserve. When some distance in front of you someone starts letting, Blacks, Hispanics, women, refugees, and even illegal immigrants in the line in front of you. Then you see it is your own government doing this. The rage you feel fuels the Republican right.

The Democrats see that line but see that various groups were never allowed to even get into the line. They were denied access. They were left out when the line started, and they need a place in that line. So letting people into the line, and not at the end of the line is what is right and fair. After all, the government stopped them from getting in the line in the first place.

I have been in many races where there are only a few port-a-johns and long, long lines. I have also been at races, where there are hundreds of port-a-johns of all colors and thousands of runners, and if there are lines, they are very, very short.

We live in the wealthiest country in the world. Why do we have lines? The false narrative is the line, and where we are. WE ARE ALL IN THE SAME LINE. There DOES NOT NEED TO BE A LINE. The system we have makes the line. The system we have lets others fly or drive to the front of the line. They let others charge us for being in the line.

If I catch a fish without a license, I can be fined. If they poison the entire river and kill all the fish, they get bigger tax credits and tax breaks. If I protest the line, they build the jail to keep me there while having everyone else in line pay for my keep and the jail.

So ask yourself why are you even standing in the line? Why aren’t you demanding the rules are changed? Why aren’t you making that change happen?

There was a wall in Germany. The people took it down. Change can happen. You, you and me can be the change that makes it happen.

© words by Daniel DeMarle 10/10/2020