A Safe Space For White People, Otherwise Known As The Two-State Solution,

[sheshe2]

It’s time, America. It’s either a two-state divorce, or “Heil, Trump” will be coming to your neighborhood as it has already come to mine.


We are in a civil war. Not very hot — yet — but in which tension is building daily. Neo-Nazis party in my neighborhood of Chevy Chase, unnoticed by the Leader, while he attacks the cast of Hamilton instead. Clinton keeps racking up votes, now with a 2,000,000+ vote lead, while no one is yet auditing the states that swung the Electoral College (itself a vestige of slavery). Liberals are turning in on themselves, while conservatives stand stunned, buried at the foot of the wreckage of the Republican party while the kakistocracy takes shape.


All this because a few hundred thousand Rust Belt citizens, repeatedly fed misinformation and disinformation in our era of Big Data, decided to first destroy the Republican Party, which had betrayed then for forty years (fool me once...), and then take down the entire country in a fit of pique for an encore. Now they will learn what pain really feels like, as they’ve given unlimited power to a demagogue (“Hamilton’s besetting fear was that American democracy would be spoiled by demagogues who would mouth populist shibboleths to conceal their despotism.”) while emasculating themselves. Their new Karl Rove fancies himself as Darth Vader, Dick Cheney and Satan, though on a good day he elevates his narcissistic neo-Nazi self-image into Thomas Cromwell (who ended up executed by the Crown, but no matter).


Still, the fact remains that 62 million people voted for the El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago, in spite of the fact that a significant plurality of those voters felt he was unqualified. All I hear these days from Republicans (and some Democrats) is we failed, in this perverse Marxist analysis, because we didn’t empathize with the poor white working class, while we played within our diversity and let multiculturalism and intersectionality run amok. We must learn to show compassion. Not to our myriad of communities competing for the American ideal of equality, but for a swath of the country - the heartland and Confederacy, along with the Rust Belt - that just ended the American experiment its white race had run for the entirety of 240 years, as if it were simply a season of Survivor.


Sorry, but no. I’m all out of empathy and compassion. Feel free to hate me all you want because I’m an elitist who shows disdain for you. Enjoy waiting for the factories and mills to return as you fling your resentment at the bicoastal elites who’ve created the government programs like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (sorry about that) upon which you depend. You’ve been fighting a culture war and a religious war, and while you won this battle, you will most assuredly lose the war.


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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dana-beyer/a-safe-space-for-white-pe_b_13227466.html

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Great Read

[heaven05]

1. YEP

[Squinch]

2. Yes. This call for empathy is making me ill. I have complete disdain for these "rust belt"

morons.

I keep hearing about how college tuition and job losses to technology and healthcare costs and lack of retirement options are so hard on them. Those conditions exist EVERYWHERE in our country. The white men in the upper Midwest and the women who listen to them are not special.

The rest of us are just willing to listen to facts and do what needs to be done to fix the situation, rather than putting all our money down on a snake oil salesman who tells us what we want to hear.

Ignorant, lazy and bigoted. That's what is special about the people in the upper Midwest who voted for Trump.

Yep. As I face all the same issues as they do from my elitist coastal city, I do disdain them.

[sheshe2]

3. Yes poor poor pitiful me!

They never try to 'edumacate' themselves. They whine, then vote Repuke every effing time. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot over and over.

Thanks Squinch.

[Amishman]

4. It would be scattered city states surrounded by a foreign country

I know most of PA (geographically) would want to stay with Republican America.