Gibbs said, “Hate among our base instincts, is the most distinctly human. In animals, violence and venom are tools of survival; in humans, of supremacy. Small, scared people hate, self-hating people hate, bullied and betrayed.” All the authors had words of wisdom and shared their experiences."
Meacham was especially timely. The author of “The Soul of America: The Battle for our Better Angels,” Meacham ended his article with the following: “So is Trump the harbinger of a new dark age? Not if We the People engage fully and consistently in the arena. The demographic and cultural trends that will continue to produce a more diverse America are irreversible. Andrew Johnson governed a vastly majority-white nation; Trump is more likely the end of something, not the beginning.
But only if the people force the issue and endure. Cold comfort? Perhaps, but it’s just about all we have – and just about what we’ve always had. ‘One thing I believe profoundly: We make our own history,’ Eleanor Roosevelt wrote shortly before her 1962 death. ‘The course of history is directed by the choices we make and our choices grow out of the ideas, the beliefs, the values, the dreams of the people. It is not so much the powerful leaders that determine our destiny as the much more powerful influence of the combined voice of the people themselves.
After his own single term as President, John Adams wrote that ‘the people…ought to consider the President’s office as the indispensable guardian of their rights,’ adding: ‘The people cannot be too careful in the choice of their Presidents.’ History and experience suggest that, in moments where care fails, we must undertake the duties of guardianship ourselves. We are living in just such a moment.”
Indeed, we are.
Deacon David Pierce
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