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I've heard commentators say we're on the verge of a second Civil War.

That makes a mockery of the carnage of that war, where at least 600,000

Americans were killed. 

Yet there is another 19th-century parallel that resonates. One commentator

recently said we're on the brink of a "political civil war." 

That comment evoked another era that reminds me of this one -- the decades

running up to the Civil War. ( From Dr. Lee’s posting) Thank you, Dr. Lee.

It is sad to hear from Trump, but it is sadder to see how Republicans react to it. 

Republican Party is the party of Lincoln. He held the country together won the 

Civil War for the good. He laid the foundation of the modern U.S.A, that is freest,

most prosperous, and strongest country ever existed in the planet. Diversity

is the essence of past empires. All kinds of people flocked into the empire for

the better life. They had different religions and different color of the skin. 

The empires embraced them. Then They prospered. However, the rulers made

the empire for one race and one religion. Then they demised. Almost all the 

nations imploded at the end. They do not end by the invasion. It is just straw

on the camel's back. I mean self-destruction is the cause of death.

Thank you, Dr. Ohn, for all your in-depth analyses of political situations

at home, USA and Korea, and around the world, as well as the complicated

modern history of Korea, which has been instrumental in helping us see more clearly, I believe.

believe you speak our minds most of the time as well in your critiques, which makes us feel

comfortable.

Keep up with your insightful good work on politics and history

while we are laughing at the ridiculous things Trump is doing with his many supporters,

which is scary as explained in this CNN article.

I am one of the alumni who settled in the USA thanks to President Nixon's change on immigration law 

that allowed foreign doctors with exchange visa to apply for green cards.

Although Nixon was said to be the most corrupt president, many alumni including me were

beneficiaries. Trump seems to top Nixon every which way.

We can only hope and pray, as Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu have been doing all their lives

with their enormous reservoir of compassion for friends and foes alike,

that the conscience of Americans will wake up towards justice through the curved long road

of American politics without winding up with a civil war.

Steve Bannon said that the war between China and U.S. is not the trade war

but it’s about which system will win; between socialistic capitalism and democratic 

one. I have great confidence in the American system. The system that this country 

built on will not allow a white nationalist to run the government for long. Eventually,

democratic capitalism will prevail. In fact, Trump is leading America like what

China is doing, i.e. dictatorship. 

I share with Dr. Ohn’s view on the issue of how the tax money the voters pay would be spent!

Of course, no one wants to spend it for the welfare of the illegal immigrant but for the welfare of citizens

with no doubt. For that, I have no objection on further stricter control of illegal immigrants

from Central America.

But the ‘illegal immigrants’ seem to give a good excuse to bastard Donald using this issue

to solicit white trash/nationalists and its supporters, to make me really worry about

such polarized future of this country as a minority.

Of course, I feel sorry about the inhumane condition in the detention facilities at the border but I do have

much-mixed feeling not many colleagues share. Because I had unique experiences to have visited/traveled

to Central America through the last two decades; Guatemala for three times, El Salvador for twice, and Mexico

for umpteen times - indeed, I do go again to Mexico City and then to Oaxaca for 10 days

from August 15 to give workshops-.

So, I had a chance to see/meet real local Hispanic peoples while I was in Guatemala as well as El Salvador

to help the local nephrology/dialysis & transplant society, giving the advices for their program,

especially for the immunosuppressive drug, to fight/negotiate with big pharmas like Novartis.

I traveled through the countryside extensively and saw many poor people but with such extraordinarily

warm sincerity, knowing how to gratitude for the helps we were giving, which reminded me

of my first eye-opening opportunity to see such poor HWA-JUN-MIN people/children in remote mountainous

place of KangWon-Do during my high school days.

Yes, I saw they are such desperately poor peoples, to live or die with starvation, so that I simply do not have

a steel heart to blame them walking such long way through Mexico to get to the border to seek for the survival.

I don’t know why God has made so many children for them.    

Sadly,

BB Lee