History, Heros, and a Home Town Feeling

I do not hate the town whence I came.  I do not feel any shame.  Although I was born in Mocksville, NC we transplanted to Fayetteville in the mid 1960's.  Starkly I remember the evening newscasts were wrought with Viet Nam violence.  Alexander Graham once was Fayetteville High School, and it sat downtown at the bottom of Haymount Hill off hay Street.  Margaret Willis once was called Belvedere Elementary School.  I was bussed across town to Ramsey Street and Washington Drive.  Friends of mine attended Horace Sisk which now has been absorbed by FTCC.  I graduated from Terry Sanford High School as a member of the Honor Society.  I graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a Bachelor of Music Education degree and have been licensed to teach K-12.  I still am.  I completed a masters degree from the University of South Carolina in jazz and commercial music, and I have completed all coursework for the completion of a DMA degree in music composition at The Ohio State University.  My memories of Fayetteville consist of musical excellence, intelligence, class, and artistry.  Now I am seeing a different picture outside looking in.  I do not hate the town whence I came.  I do not feel any shame, because although I do complain, and Fayettevillle has become a pain, I will remain.  (for the time being anyway)  Notable achievements in Fayetteville are the development of a world class symphony orchestra, a professional chorus, a new baseball stadium, an aviation museum, a skateboard park, and soon to come to frution, a sport complex and performing arts center.  I pleasantly was surprised to read Bill Bowman's opinion on this new city endeavor.  "Don't Railroad the Performing Arts Center!"  There is a rich musical community in Fayetteville, and whence it comes I am not sure.  My mother and I enjoy concerts of all kinds, and all of them are artistic and satisfying.  This is unusual and a fairly new occurrence in Cumberland Country.  What we don't have is jazz.  With all of this said, a city once which was heralded as possessing history, heros, and a home town feeling, now has become an industrial junkyard.  To name a few business closures:  Walmart on the Murch.  Auto Zone in front of it.  Many corner drugstores.  The ghosts of thriving businesses are beginning to haunt us as the trees disappear into the mist.  "We can't get to your store, because of the concrete medians."  There are a handful of things happening off the radar of the population, and they are kept there on purpose.  I would ask how single working parent military families can afford three hundred thousand dollar homes in Vanstory Hills?  The reason is because I feel they are being coerced into adopting such a lifestyle to ensure their military longevity.  Bill Clinton's major campaign promise was that every American should be able to own their own home.  Three decades later this concept almost destroyed the American economy.  Unvetted loans were shoveled out to everyone.  When the fine print was revealed and their payments escalated, foreclosures abounded.  It was a trap.  Everyone gets a house.  One housing crisis later, the economy of the United States has yet to return for the working class.  Instead those who got the money, those Wall Street brokers, kept the money and began implementing a system of oligarchy controlling the masses.  This was the beginning of a new governance system in America, and Donald Trump is the final chapter.  Bill Maher on his show has asked several guests including Amy Kloburchar the question, "What if Trump doesn't leave?"  I had to think about this for a few weeks.  What is he talking about?  He then clearly states that Trump's camp is the military, police, and the others who have caused trouble from the inception of his presidency.  What Bill is talking about is a revolutionary war.  I feel it is a combination of a civil and revolutionary war.  What he has yet to describe is a governmental/military takeover of North America.  Trump after all is the military's Commander in Chief.  Oficially they must do what he says.  Right there is one grift upon which I reflect.  If called upon to suppress the American people if they rallied against him, would they do it?  Would they obey the Commander in Chief of the United States, or would they commit mutiny?  Are they enlightened enough to know for whom they serve, or is their personal security more imporant than the good of the American people?  It is a tricky question.  Bill Maher is saying that the Trump administration would refuse to relinquish federal power with a lie.  They would fabricate a story that simply lies and disguises the true results.  It has been happening for four years.  It happens everyday.  Big Brother is here and Trump is it.  The problem is his supporters are not enlighened enough to see through him, even after he has hurt so many people.  Only the oligarchs are being looked after.  Imagine a coup in Ecuador.  Imagine Hugo Chavez.  Imagine bloddy civil wars all over South America and in the Middle East.  Imagine a militaristic dictatorship lead by Donald Trump and mindless Americans following him until they are shipped off to the gas chambers.  Sound familiar?  Adolph Hitler used infrasound as a tool of the Nazi Party.  They would inundate the crowds with massive low frequency noise to rile them up.  America is riled up now.  There are murders everyday, and the evening news is like satire.  The most brutal and ignorant crimes happen every day with no explanation.  Imagine armored vehicles thundering down your street enforcing a national curfew.  Imagine the Senate counting America's electoral votes.  Imagine the Senate, with Mitch McConnell as its leader, acquitting our president of treason.  It is time to be afraid.