By Michael Cornwall

If it Takes a Village to raise a child as Hillary once insisted, then it assumes that all children are born innocent beings who are shaped by the social forces around them. At what point does the village fail a child?

Does the would be leader of the village declare a child or teen or adult an outcast based on the level of toxic and destructive beliefs the person may have been exposed to and may have tragically internalized? – racist, homophobic, xenophobic, sexist beliefs – or is the individual outcast judged solely as a deplorable “other,” an irredeemable citizen that angrily is cast into a “basket of deplorables” by the shunning of them by the would be leader?

Isn’t the person labeled a deplorable member of the village now a pariah?

Being called “a deplorable” by the would be village leader constitutes a form of degradation ceremony.

Such labeling, such name calling that transforms the word deplorable into a noun, that assigns the outcast identity to millions of American citizens, is a huge social wound that Hillary has just inflicted on countless members of the village who support her opponent.

Trump and the Alt/right and the Republican Party have made it clear they have contempt for Obama and Hillary.

Hillary has now revealed her contempt for millions of people that the village has failed.

We won’t be seeing a national leader who values every American equally, and who is fully worthy of the name of village leader of us all anytime soon.

In Lincoln’s second inaugural address even as the civil war raged on, he concluded – “With malice towards none, with charity for all… Let us strive on to bind up the nations wounds.”

I have supported Hilary’s candidacy and I still do, and I hope she reconnects with her Methodist heritage of charity towards all, that doesn’t grant Christians like herself the power to judge anyone as being irredeemable.