You know, at the start of the year I was arguing a lot with kleinbl00 that there was hope for the red states, the problem was just that the Left had stopped talking to them so they only heard from the Right so they blame their suffering under capitalism on the government, brown people and college kids instead. Now every other editorial I see posted anywhere is about how the Left needs to start talking to the hinterlands again, but I'm no longer convinced there's hope for us. I'll still volunteer when the opportunity presents itself, because fighting is better than hiding in a corner, but I'm learning hard towards attrition and demographic shifts being the only way we're going to join the 21st century. It's not going to happen, but I wouldn't blame the West Coast for walking away in the slightest.
1) Obama begins the long and protracted battle against gerrymandering and vote disenfranchisement 2) Republicans do as republicans do 3) Democrats run Kamala Harris in 2020 Here's the thing: I don't think the "red states" belong to the Republicans. I think the "red states" belong to anyone that can help the red states. The entire media narrative has been about these poor white folx in their shitholes in the flyover states vs. these not-poor white folx in their mcmansions and while very, very few can explain "neoliberal globalization" they certainly get the sense that (1) it's bad (2) Clinton is all about it. In theory, it shouldn't be hard for the democratic party to speak to the people at the expense of the elite. In practice, we trusted the adults to run this thing and the adults shit the bed.