Donald J. Trump America’s “Lost Cause” or Not

America has been plagued with societal problems just as other countries around the world. These challenges are ones that seemingly never goes away. Certain major troubles knows no constraint to the boundaries of time, knows no constraint to civilized lawful edification nor knows no constraint to the principles of faith-based institutions. These major woes continues to threaten the harmony of society repeatedly, again and again. These weighted stumbling blocks are unresolved and remain as steadfast opposing viewpoints and beliefs. Most of these philosophies falls within one of these two major categories. First, ideology that give birth to principles in which to live and act through societal lawful decrees and through faith-based institutions. And secondly, ideology that birth a more menacing approach through principles of self-indulging existence.

Society who stand opposed to those above reproach need always be mindful when the same are armed with the power of worldly resource. Usually this means the power of wealth. The combination of worldly wealth and self-indulgence is the recipe for troubles in society especially during periods of social trying times. Over time, societal troubles turns into wars with those above reproach. Hindsight through time shows that there is no place on the planet where these particular brands of woes have not surfaced at least a few times.

One thread of history commenced in the United States of America is but yet another case in point of major struggles between these acutely opposing ideologies. Converging on a period of time when most of white southern Americans armed with the accumulation of farmland agreed that in order to maximize their agricultural profit margins, more specifically cotton, the institution of slavery must be birthed. Northern Americans mightily opposed the expansion of the institution of slavery during these times. These few years in America’s history is a telling but dark truths of self-indulgent portrayed by many of the US government leaders, especially at the congress level, state level and sadly at the local level. During 1861, the south believed their cause was so significant they would depart from the United Sates of America and form their own territory called the Confederate States of America (CSA). The CSA instituted it’s own constitution, capital, and military might to protect it’s own self found worthiness and importance. During the culmination of these events millions of slaves were forcibly taken from their homeland and then used, abused, maimed, molested, and raped producing mixed children as additional slaves. Slaves was the free labor white southerners used to power their cotton empire. The northern Americans fought with a steady and powerful hand against the self-indulgence of the south beginning in April of 1861. After four years of fighting, some 620,00 to 700,000 souls was lost total in the struggle. This war, The American Civil War ended at Appomattox, Virginia in April of 1865. Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to US General Ulysses S. Grant. Confederate president Jefferson Davis was removed from office and all supporting documents were made null and void of power or meaning by the US government. All states came back unified under the original constitution of the United State.

Although you would think the will of this self-imposed ideology have been put down, well think again! In an infamous address to the confederate states, Confederate Vice President Alexander H. Stephens, a wealthy landowner himself, said in a paraphrase, “the great truth is that the negro is not equal to the white man, but fit for slavery, which is subordinate to the superior (white) race; this is the natural and normal condition”. This idea became very popular and sacred among white southerners as a whole.

Now fast forwarding to the year 2020, these ideals has kept itself alive through the bygone years of erecting monuments, headstones, and statues to commemorate past confederate self-indulgence and through organizations like Sons of the Confederates and United Daughters of the Confederates. Southern white families who still hold these ideals near and dear to their hearts are still with us today. Many of them are neighbors, church associates, in the workplace and operate commerce daily. The old southern attitude still feels the pinch of the stigma of what the North characterized as the “Lost Cause” of the south. The consistent sentiment of the south has since been and still is today, “The South Shall Rise Again”.

The US government aggressively asserted that such “Self-Indulgent” as a way of life in the United States of America is a “Lost Cause”. The way of liberty and life shall be carried out as set forth by the Constitution United States of America. The question now becomes if you, the reader of this article believe that with the power of wealth one can completely self-indulge all the way through the halls of congress regardless of cost because everything comes in cycles or if you the reader of this article believe the approach to life is through lawful decrees and through faith-based institutions. Either way you decide, Donald J Trump is not the actual cause, he is only a billboard representation of a symptom revealing what still has life in present day society. Are you one who side with the “Lost Cause”? Don’t let this question trip or trick you, consider the slogan, “Make America Great Again” reverberating in the halls of the “Lost Cause” then it translates as “The South Shall Rise Again”… OR consider an antidote for the billboard symptom POTUS Donald J. Trump impose. Whichever way, will you lay your life on the line as did those among the 620,000 to 700,000 who died for what they believed in, right, wrong or indifferent? And here’s something else for all to consider… the very real possibility of America’s history repeating itself soon!! Will you lay your life down for the sake of righteousness on behalf of every american or lay your life down to enjoy a confederate styled self-indulgence?

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