Two (or three) Americas

For sure, there are two Americas - we the people vs. them. Remember ‘Them’, in the 1954 classic horror film, “Them?” They were mutant ants ( from atomic experimentations), incomprehensible and ugly, and operating on a dangerous level begging destruction. Normal people couldn’t obviously understand an alien species. Just the other day, however, our First Lady, Michele Obama, stumped for her husband at a political event. She attempted to rally her ‘communities’ of troops who are praying for her and Barack. She said that there are “prayer circles out there keeping the spirits clean around us.” I repeat: “keeping the spirits clean around us.” I surely don’t understand her or ‘them,’ the elitists operating on a different, dangerous level, alien to my ‘normal’ mode of rational and clear thinking. ‘Clean’ thinking or ‘clean’ prayers have never entered into my spiritual relationships or conversations.

What the **** does our leading lady mean by ‘clean spirits’? Do I care? Yes, because the incomprehensibility and foreign character of her thinking is terribly worrisome, isn’t it? Her lavish shopping trip to Spain, another vacation for an ‘overworked’ President, are facts from the out-of-touch lifestyles of insensitive and inscrutable leaders.

Yes, there are two American dramas playing out each and every day. WE THE PEOPLE vs. them.

A third America also exists. The world of sports. Where to place it within the framework of the two Americas? You decide. Local sports’ coaches not only abuse the English language by embracing a patois of their own choosing, they also allow it flow like an untreated case of dysentery out of the audio airways. Obviously, I’m no sports fan. I refuse to “embrace the atmosphere,” so often mentioned by one coach frequently ‘worshiped’ on local radio air time. One must embrace an alien culture to understand what he means by ‘embracing the atmosphere.’ He ‘embraces the atmosphere’ without my approval although it’s a free country, of course, and some number of fans demand unending interviews with players and coaches.

Again, it’s us vs. them. We who won’t “Go Bucks,” won’t ‘embrace the atmosphere,’ or ‘keep our spirits clean.’ Why? As the Bible says, some things are “beyond understanding.”