BREAKING THINGS

     I borrow these words from a wonderful writer, Elana Sztokman whose articles I read as often as they are written. She wrote this article discussing how things are often in a position of having to be broken before they can be fixed, or at least recognized as broken. She states that sometimes there is no other way than to start allover again, so much are things broken.    
     At a point in her essay she reaches this conclusion and I so totally agree with her.
   
"I think about this regarding the world we are living in now. We are living in such a broken place.
The election of Trump was the act of such wanton destruction.
His election broke so much.
It broke hope,
it broke integrity,
it broke belief in humanity,
it broke compassion,
it broke decency,
it broke honesty,
it broke care,
it broke logic,
it broke truth,
it broke progress,
it broke bridges,
it broke connections,
it broke cooperation,
it broke generosity,
and it broke the movement towards creating a better world.
     We are all experiencing the impacts of that breaking on a regular basis.
And there is so much that is breaking that he allows to continue to break. Floods. Fires. Hurricanes. Mass shootings. One after another, breaking, breaking, breaking.
And he does this actively and on purpose, not just by neglect or stupidity. Trump seeks to continue breaking everything that he can.
He is trying to break health care,
to break education,
to break justice,
to break the economy,
to break poor people,
to break women,
to break people of color,
to break Muslims,
to break immigrants,
to break the media,
to break democracy,
to break history, to break America,
to break alliances,
maybe even to break the world.
     It looks that way some days. It looks like he might actually want to start a world war. That is the breaking that we are in the midst of."
   The question remaining -
What does it mean to break the trump world in order to rebuild a better world?
 "What does it mean to break the trump world in order to rebuild a better world?"