America Reverts

The New York Times' Irin Carmon current article, What Women Really Think of Men, features an interesting phrase.

"The country prepares to revert to white male rule," Carmon writes.

"America reverts" carries more of a connotation of regression than the word "returns" would. Carmon's knitted brow and word usage convey a sense of fear. Perhaps she thinks Barack Obama isn't white or male.

America reverts. It sounds like "reverse." America has thrown the ship of state into reverse. The implicit evocation is a reactionary impulse that contradict Obama's belief that his only his ideas are aligned with the right side of history.

The word, "revert," has its roots in the Latin word, "revertere," to turn back. And Trump's victory does represent a yearning to turn back to things we could be grateful for, like men who were expected to provide for and protect their family. When women were expected to stay home and raise children and not agitate for a job with paid maternity leave.

Another meaning of the word, "revert," is to come into the faith of Islam. Muslims believe that we all met God before we were born, and accepting Islam is just returning to him.

Other early usages of the word "revert" includes, to "recover consciousness." That is probably impossible, as America has allowed a tree of knowledge to bloom on every street. This tree bears poisonous fruit, and destroys all who consume of it.

The poisonous fruit blooms from a tree known as feminism, and it could only have taken root in the soil of liberty.