Feb 26, 2025 2 min read

“People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along?” – Rodney King, during the 1992 Los Angeles race riots

Rodney King’s plea is even more appropriate now as our 249-year-old United States democracy seems to be backsliding into two camps of immature blamers, labellers and juvenile name callers. Friend, brother, sister, neighbor and countryman have been replaced with bigot, hack, and radical.

The woke extremists must try to understand why so many of their fellow Americans voted for a bogus candidate and accept the fact that the letters “M” and “A” in MAGA sadly stand for Marginalized Americans.

We must understand and have compassion for those who followed the blond messiah believing they were finally going to get what they were told they deserved. Tragically, the billionaire who made those promises and his wealthy cronies are the same ones who rigged our capitalist system to ensure that the one percenters get it instead. They intentionally set us against one another so that we are preoccupied with arguing and fail to notice our pockets are being picked. Thomas Paine said it 249 years ago in “Common Sense,” where “a King hath little more to do than to make war and give away places; which, in plain terms, is to impoverish the nation and set it together by the ears.”

Mark Kramer

Bavington