2016 Postmortem

But ever since the days of Bill Clinton, many times when the Democrats tried to help them, they attacked even a straight white male like Bill, because the churches and the talk radio told them to. Right in my Florida, there was a plan for hi-speed rail that would have given jobs, especially to the very same panhandle folks that turned Florida from blue to red. What happened, Birtherism took root here in Florida, with a then political novice named Trump. There are attempts to do many things such as solar power (which would make jobs) to repairing infrastructure , but who shouted it down, the oppressed straight white males who had it in for Obama.

Now, I want the Midwest and south to be humming again. Between solar energy and high-tech, there is no reason that yesterday's mills should not be today's mills, but the one thing I see when I hear some (and thankfully I do not mean all) some speak is the very demonizing of a false frame called "identity politics" which is really nothing more than saying "let people who were put in the inferior category get an equal shot." But the language that is used speaks as if we need to abandon reaching out to anybody not white and go back to the "good old days" when the labor unions were happy, but they did not give a damned about the blacks and browns, where Trump's grabbing of you know what was considered lock room talk, or what a secretary should have expected if she dared work outside the home.

I want to walk WITH my fellow Americans, but I should not have to expect, as was the case until very recently, to have to walk behind them, and consider myself thankful they only called me racial names ever so often, or made sure that the people who get promoted are their true "friends" who just happen to be white straight males. No, the vast majority of straight white males do not repeat, not want to perpetuate that system, especially as it will be bad for the economy in the long run, but sadly, the most vocal are often the people who will insist they are not bigots but are more than willing to let the furnaces keep burning, especially as they rationalize that it helps bake their bread.

If I can risk hides telling people that the DNC, at the very least, made some errors in judgment, placing why too much reliability on polls, traditional media, celebrities, and the idea that you could ignore the economy provided you hit other points, the least you can do is try to avoid encouraging the meme that to win the next election is to ignore the minorities, as if we needed to be put in our place. I will say that you may not be meaning to do that, but it is coming across that way.

THEGOP WANTS ALL OF US TO BE POOR

ALL OF US.

and if we do not hang together, we will hang separately, and then the Chinese and Russians will gnaw the bones that litter what was once called "The united states."