Insurrection
When I woke this morning I felt compelled to write about my fear of civil insurrection in America. At first I thought this essay would be a rant but as I began to really think about what to say I knew it would be a lament. Trump is ruining American unity. Growing up I worked. My father was an electrician who was raised on a south Texas dairy farm that was lost in the Great Depression. Like many people with similar stories he learned to value thrift and hard work and passed this on to me. I've forgotten a little of the thrift part over the years but the hard work part stuck. As a kid I worked part time jobs as a printer's assistant, movie theater ticket taker, photo technician, electrician helper during the summers, merchant marine seaman, and during medical school as a scrub nurse every fourth night. My medical career was spent in the emergency room in a big urban hospital seeing all comers, all classes, all types of problems; all unsorted, unplanned and distressed. As a resu...