No, this account has not been hijacked.
I decided to come out and take a firm stance. I decided it was time to do what so little of America seems willing to do right now: Be absolutely honest about the nation I live in. If we just take a moment to peel back the veil of American society we see something very striking. We see, without a doubt, that Donald Trump represents the id of the American people. Donald Trump represents, to quote dictionary.com, “the part of the psyche, residing in the unconscious, that is the source of instinctive impulses that seek satisfaction in accordance with the pleasure principle”. He is, therefore, the most honest representative of America that there can be, and as such ought to be our president.
Neil Gaiman wrote in American Gods, “This is the only country in the world, that worries about what it is…The rest of them know what they are. No one ever needs to go searching for the heart of Norway. Or looks for the soul of Mozambique. They know what they are.” Well, we know what we are as well. We just spend an awful lot of time catering to the voices of the minority opinion. America is 63% non-hispanic white. Hispanics, 17%. People who are black like me only represent 12.3%. Asians barely creep past the 5% mark while those who consider themselves multi-racial number 2.4% (according to the Census Bureau). So when you hear ‘Red-blooded Americans’ odds are you are in a conversation about white people. Trump caters to that demographic. Trump caters to the mindset that America is to be the all powerful voice and leadership of this planet. Trump is representative of who we are (primarily) as a nation and should be given the job to lead us. It is time for us to stop trying to be this all-inclusive stay nation and become who we have long been deep down inside. Trump brings all of this to the surface.
To say that I am wrong is to say that this nation doesn’t need to be governed by its id, but instead, as a brain is governed by its ego and superego, needs some other representative that mitigates our raw voice and perhaps gives strength and soul to the voice of minority thought. But are we truly that nation? Are we a nation that wants to hear all voices, or are we a nation that wants to be strong, and make money, and be great in our own eyes and in the way we have for some time defined ourselves and defined strength?
I do not have the answers to these questions. I can only say that when Barack Obama first appeared as a candidate offering promises of hope and change, the resounding response from a significant portion of the country was, “Keep your change” so perhaps it is in this fashion that we have come to Trump who means to undo that change (which apparently was for the worse) and make America great again. If we are to accept who we are as a country, and if we are to magnify that then we need to become the country of Trump and vote to save ourselves from the alternative.