When I was drying off after my water aerobics class on Thursday morning at the vacation community where we are staying in Arizona, I heard two women talking about attending the Trump rally the previous night in Phoenix. They’d had to wait in line for two hours and forty minutes to hear the President speak but they were happy they got in and found seats together at the event. “It was so great,” they said.
My sister-in-law and I decided to sit in the hot tub for a spell after our class and we joined a couple who started chatting with us almost immediately. They were originally from Chicago and when they found out we were Canadian they said one of their favourite holidays had been at Niagara Falls. They talked about how the Canadian side of the falls was so much better than the American side. “Your government takes the money they earn at the site and invests it in making the area better. The Americans don’t do that.”
I mentioned I had read articles about how funding for maintaining the United States’ national parks was being cut by the Trump administration. “Not only that,” the couple from Chicago said. “Trump is allowing mining and oil drilling in national parks.” They went on. “That’s what happens when you elect a President who doesn’t care about nature, or the environment, who doesn’t believe in science.”
Many historians and political analysts say the United States is the most divided it’s been since the Civil War, but you don’t need academics and experts to tell you that. All you have to do is spend a little time hanging around the swimming pool area at a vacation community in Arizona.
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