Debra, sadly, the country you don't recognize has been here all along. It has always been racist and sexist. The ability to go through life with out knowing this is just another white privilege. The GOP is full of folks that don't believe that all lives matter. That goes double if they are not white. Who do you think voted for Trump? Just ask them, don't take my word for it. Most of them are too ignorant to follow the money. They think minorities and the poor get more free stuff from the government than the 1%. They think they are victims of folks worse off than them. The ethanol subsidies help the fossil full industry and the corporate farms. That is corporate welfare. Now that the renewable energy and natural gas resources are more cost effective than coal or oil, Trump and his minions are happy to give those industries more corporate welfare. Never mind the people poisoned down river. Their lives don't matter to the corporations involved and the politicians they buy.