Every election feels like it is the 'most important of our life time' and it typical is. Along with the victories for democracy, the Constitution, diversity and a progressive agenda, are cautions about forces like White Christian Male Supremacy that were not vanquished per our votes.
American oligarchs own both Democratic and Republican party leaders. They own most of the policies, media, and enforcement programs like ICE that protect the oligarchs' powers. This is not a game of Haves versus Have Nots. This is White Wealthy Male Supremacists versus The Rest of Us.
Following a national backlash from white supremacists to the Civil Rights and Voting Rights laws of the 1960s and 70s, white fundamentalists finally began to organize. They left the Democratic party throughout the Southern and Middle states and joined with the Republican party to eradicate the feminist-liberal-Black-atheist-Democratic-nonconformist-communist-Nothern elitist-hippie Californian-Hollywood-nontraditionalist threats to the American way of life. Americans bought into it. The enemy was no longer simply a communist sympathizer. The enemy was someone you already disliked and distrusted.
The most gratifying moments in relationships are those that support trust, protect voice and expression, and nurture Understanding.
What I remember; what I've learned. In the Little Texas culture I lived in the 1960s, Martin Luther King Jr was not seen as a legitimate Christian preacher, much less a hero. But black women across the USA are now the citizens who will save our democracy.
If true that most women who identify themselves as White voted for Donald J Trump than a Joe Biden administration, why does this surprise Americans? Why do white women continue to vote for the white supremacists?