A. S. Wanna hear a funny thing? Part One is "unavailable" while Part Two is just fine.

Thank you for the wonderful and concise story of the two major American parties.

But the Southern Strategy recognized that Southern racists would rather vote racist than Democrat and gave them a new home in the Republican Party.

This is absolutely fucked. I understand that it's perfectly rooted in the history of the country, but by any human standard, it's FUBAR.

And I find it very difficult to believe. I imagine I'd have the same amount of trouble reconsiling existence of a pure-bred neo-nazi whose only desire is to selfishly promote "Aryan ideals". They must have some shard of humanity in them. They can't be whole what people think of them, right?

I don't know. The longer I live, the more I get the impression that humanity's main coping mechanism is diving head-first into extremes: political, religious and what-have-you. If live is stressful enough to cause people to do that, though, I have no idea why I'm not an extremist... though maybe I am, in the way I try to see something good in everyone.