Two Hard Truths

Think of this as counseling. What are the hard truths Democrats have been failing to fully own and act on?  There are two, in each case because we don't want to think ill of people or be mean. So the problems are familial and more complex and not something we can readily walk away from, like dating an addict, for example, and being unable to pull the plug on the relationship. 

Which is hard but relatively uncomplicated. 

And if you wonder what's hard about that you haven't been there. But walking away is not as complicated as, let's say, being married to a drunken, abusive spouse when there are kids. The kid thing cuts both ways. There are innocent parties involved who can't reasonably control their own circumstances, so more motivation and a greater responsibility but more logistical difficulty.

We have family members who are nuts and abusing us and the kids. It's the South. We have never been one country. The slave states have held us hostage from the start. All the provisions that make our country ungovernable now and enable us to be held hostage by a minority trace to them. They were that original minority. And they fixed it so the Yankees could never overpower them.

Unless they were defeated in a war. A fucking war. Sit with that. And then they still didn't give up. And they still haven't given up. In fact they have won. Look at everything Republicans stand for. It's the South. He died but the Republican Party is still the party of Lee Atwater. Scorched earth. Because it worked. All the lies and nastiness won elections.  Do I need to argue this point?

I don't think so. Not after Trump. Trump is all about nullification. Nullification means lawlessness, and the benefits of a reasonably orderly society without the responsibilities. That's the South. Freeloaders. Take Texas, a state with its head totally up its ass because they pumped their wealth out of the ground. To feed their egos they then lied. That they were the real men. Right. 

Like the morons who started the Civil War, they leave out, and got the balls of all the southern white boys handed to them by the Yankees. This is what it's about. They lead the world in false pride. Maybe not now because of the Taliban but you get the point. It's an honor culture, the most dishonorable thing ever. The Fugitive Slave Law sums up the South -- nullification until the Yankees do it. 

The law must not be equitably enforced, with Trump as my witness. 

I said there were two things. And, given the severity of the first, what does it tell you that I tremble at the second? Democratic white women, the abortion absolutists, have no political sense, and they control the messaging of the Democrats. Then white women vote for Republicans. Not the same white women, obviously. But still they insist on talking about 'women' as though it's a voting bloc. 

It isn't. Look at Trump. White women voted for him a third time after Roe was toast. The LGBT association is an outgrowth of women's rights, I think. So white women gave us the political disaster of 'woke' and the rest. Not that we shouldn't have stood for these things but you don't make them the unrelenting content of your messaging, ceding 'freedom' to the enslavers.

The white women I've observed politically were fine with chivalry when it meant white men giving into them when they were full of shit, maybe the biggest 'yes, honey' in history. I've seen it in my very blue community, white men effectively told they needed to shut up because, well, they're men. Which is racist. I say to white women please shut the fuck up. Go to the back on troop.

Democratic white women, weirdly, became Puritans.

Self-righteous, strident, utopian, accusatory moral bean counters. When have we last heard women in general and as a movement saying, basically, we still have some problems but we're some the luckiest people in history? I haven't heard it. All they talk about is what's wrong and what they want. And they're surprised people got sick enough of the complaining to vote for Trump? 

Case closed, I think, and it's too late now. We have the most horrific leadership imaginable, the exact shit that got us WWII and the Holocaust, horrific racism and rogue, laissez-faire capitalism. And Democrats are still not getting it. I give up. The damage is done. This therapy is after the breakup. The abusers have moved own, victorious in their complete lack of accountability. Nobody won.