8 GROUNDCOVER NEWS TRUMP Trump's second term as President SCOOP STEVENS Groundcover vendor No. 638 Now that I have had time to process the fact that Americans have elected Donald J. Trump as President again and what this might mean for homelessness in the United States, the conclusion that I came to is that everything will go wrong for Trump and by the end of his presidency he will wish that he had never run for office again. The racist real estate developer Donald Trump will witness our nation being fundamentally transformed and none of this will be to his liking. Martin Luther King said that the arc of history leans towards justice. The national reconstruction project that began in 1865 will come to its fruition during Trump’s second term as President because, I believe, circumstances will dictate a downsizing of our empire. We’ll therefore get more towards the republican form of government that our founders intended. Then we’ll concentrate on our own national character. The national reconstruction project that began with the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments got off to a slow start. After 50 years, in 1915, President Woodrow Wilson was showing a Ku Klux Klan film (The Birth of a Nation) in the White House. The film is about white people in the North and the South having a conflict but now they are reunited in the cause of white supremacy. Reconstruction’s early setbacks led the nation to become involved in World War I which was a prelude to World War II. Then came the Cold War with Russia with no end in sight for America’s entanglement in wars that it really doesn’t need to be involved in. Did Reconstruction’s early failure really lead to the United States becoming involved in all these wars? I believe that it did because these were national amendments that were meant to reconstruct the Nation. When this didn’t happen it resulted in a gilded age with great inequalities of wealth and many evils including endless wars to protect the interests of the monied class. This in turn caused increased homelessness. The elderly homeless problem was supposed to be solved by the Social Security Act of 1935. I have discovered that not having to pay rent was the solution for my homelessness. I don’t make that much money but I do not need that much money because I do not have to pay rent. Would rent-free living be a solution for homelessness on a larger scale? I believe that it would because we really do not need a parasitical landlord class oppressing us. Now that I am old enough to collect Social Security, I choose not to because if I collect Social Security I will have to give up my rent free HUDVash (veterans program) housing voucher and pay rent. When white Americans finally come to the realization that their fate is tied into the well-being of their Black neighbors, the final stage of national reconstruction will have arrived. I believe this will happen during Trump’s second term as President. FEBRUARY 7, 2025 exp. 06/31/2025
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