What this election is really about

I think it's about change or the fear thereof.

People, mostly the upper class, mostly white, mostly male, are truly afraid of losing the influence they actually have. People who are trying to ensure equality for all Americans -- economically, politically and socially -- are viewed as a threat. They just happen to be lower class, people of color, the younger generation, women.

Whatever happened to the thought that everyone was created equal and that we all contribute equally to society? Do the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, the 14th Amendment, Civil Rights matter still?

We have become a nation of picking and choosing what viewpoint we want to hear. Right or wrong. What happened to presenting information in an objective manner so that people will have to draw their own conclusions? So our opinions are skewed to what we hear and don't hear. And for this I blame the media, and being a market economy.

It plays to the fears of people and not allowing us to really seek the truth and see it for what it really is. Hell, I knew the market was going to crash in 2008 because gas shot up to $4+, consumer goods were getting expensive, credit was way too easy to get, and too many houses were being built without regard to who could really afford them. And that's what I got from just being aware of what was going around me.

So the right wing brings out fears that play on race, wasting money, socialism/extreme left wing, sex/gender, who has control and (predominately white upper class) privilege. The left wing counters with fears of near fascism, race, wasting money, sex/gender, and who has control. See the similarities?

The right want to go back to life as it was in the 60s, that is if you were white. The left has embraced inclusion as part of the reality that is our country. Though both sides are in denial.

They need each other to save themselves from their own undoing. Remember checks and balances? Yup. The left acknowledges, but doesn't assert themselves. The right? Well, they're coming across as 'my way or the highway' at the moment. I'm sure that they'll learn that in this day and age, consensus building is important.

We fear the right because it will deepen the class struggle and stuck with values that not everyone believes in. We fear the left because it wants us to embrace the unknown that is the future and start acknowledging certain realities that may not be consistent with what people believe in.

Even though people say it's not a cultural war. It is indeed very much one. And a ideological one. And a class one. And yes, to an extent, a race war.

This is an over simplification of what I see going on. But it's important that people see things for what it really are, so, we can have a dialogue, and figure out what we need to do to build a future for our nation.

It's time to critically think about things in a rational and objective matter. Only then will we be able to start moving forward.