Dear Mr. Trump,
Please break my country.
We are a nasty society, divided amongst several cultural aspects. We hate each other because of our differences, and we fight because we are disparate. America has ceased to invite new cultures in, and has reverted to racial partition with an “us against them” mentality. There exists a binary that creates an “other” which unfortunately leads to a divergent nation without unity.
We are a country that doesn’t support each other. We fight for our OWN rights, we chase our OWN dreams, and we promote our OWN issues. Beyond millennial citizens, America has become an entitled nation thinking we deserve the rights we already have, and demanding more of everything we want. And through this we forget to support those around us in their fight for equality. There is rampant narcissism, without a found cure, that is raging through our cities and killing the unified American spirit that used to work diligently for certain issues.
We are a nation that could care less about love. Sure there are campaigns that popularize the idea of love, but those same campaigns most often forget their own platform when another groups’ issues arise. There are hateful people in this country that despise others because of race, sexual orientation, values, occupation, and ethnicity. Our citizens would much rather judge from their outside, preconceived notions rather than banning together in relational humility.
The funny thing about our country, Mr. Trump, is that we continue to carry out the same corrupted actions expecting different, desired results. We are not unified, and therefore we cannot accomplish anything because we are too busy pinning one another against the “other.” We are selfishly working for our own issues without thought for another’s cause, which ends in discarded policies and marginalized people. And we are too prideful to lay our hatred down to truly love our neighbor as we love ourselves.
Mr. Trump, I am asking you to please break my country. Break my country of the binaries that separate us. Break of us the contagious hatred and entitled narcissistic attitude that we have towards America. Unite us in love so we can support each other’s cause, and get things done. Coalesce the United States of America to love one another, and to work together for a better society.
Though I know it is only by the work of God that such a nation can change this dramatically, it does start in the leadership. I’m asking you to give us a healthy example to look up to and aspire to be like. In the next four years of your coming Presidency, show us what a good leader is. Define what love looks like by controlling your words, and carefully guiding our policies. Go about your presidential duties with grace and mercy and love. Make it known to us what unity looks like, and then create it. Bring us together as a nation by kindness and the profession of altruism. Because I’m heartbroken over what my country has become, and I’m sure you are too. So let’s work together to make America great again through unification by the power of love.
