Evil Flourishes When Good Men Do Nothing

My day was ruined yesterday from the ensuing nausea caused by the Trump team's presence in my neighborhood.  Vice President Pence evidently spoke to departing troops at Fort Bragg, members of the 82nd Airborne soon to deploy to Afghanistan.  I wish they would get gone.  Hauling their gear down to Military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point is a lengthy affair.  It is a job for STRACNET, the Strategic Rail Network which really is trackage of CSX Corp.  A few months ago their workers descended upon Fayetteville and repaired the Vander line running down the middle of Russell Street.  They rebuilt all of the grade crossings in a few days and did some routine maintenance on the rail, tie, and ballast.  This track serves two purposes.  One, in the phraseology of a potential presidential candidate, because they seem always to talk in lists of three examples, this track's primary purpose is to service DAK Americas, a polyester resin manufacturing plant on Cedar Creek Road on the other side of Interstate I-95.  If one were to follow it on a Google satellite map it originates in downtown Fayetteville from the CSX Milan Yard.  It is a "local" line, a piece of track that is used locally every day.  CSX has been switching raw materials in and out of DAK America's in the late afternoon ever since Trump became president.  Before that we had about a year's respite from this invasive rail activity.  We were able to sit at the dinner table facing the Milan Yard and eat peacefully without unwanted infrasonic pressure and vibration.  That changed overnight when the Donald became president by bribing most members of America's electoral college.  Some states realized this emergency and began to scrutinize their own electoral colleges.  A state can choose whether it wants its vote to represent the people, the popular vote, or a small group of unknown, incognito, yes men who are ripe for bribery.  How else could have Donald Trump won the United States Presidency?  He lost the popular vote by two million ballots.  In prime American fashion a small group of empowered elites chose the president for us.  This is the way America is, especially North Carolina.  We are too ignorant up in here to decide for ourselves who we want to represent us.  The country club has to chose for us with the aid of lobby money.  Believe me, it is not a Hobby Lobby.  Lobbying the Electoral College is all the Trump camp had to do to win.  They may have thrown in some dinero for good measure.  This man's face was on the front page of the Fayetteville Observer today, and after seeing a video clip of him with Jeffry Epstein years ago, I had to cut the photo out and tear it into little pieces.  The people of North Carolina, at least the Trump supporters, do not represent my vote.  It is clear to me that this contingency, this political movement, this group of southerners are no different than the slave owners who grew this region.  We had progressed in America with our Civil Rights Movement until Dr. King brutally was shot down in Memphis, Tennessee.  This heinous crime gave rise to the Black Power movement.  This is when America grew up and most citizens realized there was no silver lining to the American dream.  It is war.  It is war in America, and we have enough on our hands without fighting the Taliban.  Donald Trump has reignited this war, this race war, and his foul words are of biblical proportions.  Donald Trump is an epic, watershed president.  His sentiments will be cemented in American history in a dark chapter reminiscent of the Civil War.  This war is raging in America they way it always has, and I have to get out of bed and face it everyday like an ignorant hillbilly.  My life has become about survival, not enlightenment.  It is ironic that my newfound interest in jazz history is linked to Donald Trump.  As I reach farther and farther back towards the origins of jazz music, they are intertwined with the struggle for racial equality in America.  I am becoming more enlightened about jazz music, but also I am faced with a heinous racism that has plagued this country since its founding.  "I love niggers.  I think everybody should own one."  I realized that African-Americans never immigrated to America of their own accord.  They were captured, shackled, and shipped to America in the cargo holds of filthy sailing ship and sold to plantation owners for a profit.  These were the first African-Americans to populate America.  If Donald Trump doesn't like their presence here and their subsequent influence, then the white man is to blame.  The slave owning plantation owners and some of our founding fathers owned slaves.  They owned black men imported from Africa.  How's that for a conundrum?  We can say America has progressed.  We can say we have overcome the evils of slavery and our resulting Civil War.  We can bury our heads in the sand, but the same families who participated in slavery still are here today, and it is war.  Now in addition to the race war, the gender war has been reignited.  The war of the sexes.  All of this shit has happened before in America.  It is nothing new, but now Congressmen are afraid to have lunch with their women colleagues.  This is because a small group of financially influential men have spread their tainted semen across America.  Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby, Matt Lauer, and Les Moonves all have mistakenly used money as a tool to sexually abuse women.  They should be in jail with Jeffry Epstein.  It is egregious behavior, something that Donald Trump knows about.  The people of North Carolina see it as natural.  They feel affluent people should be in control running the plantations like good white folk.  Only today is my nauseated stomach starting to recover.