That's what this election cycle was all about. America is changing and in a way that scares the crap out of some white people. The White Male Christian America is fast becoming a thing of the past. This group is scared and angry because they know there's nothing that can be done to stop it.
This election is first and foremost about fear. The left was disappointed and upset. The right was loony tunes pissed off. That's fear. Death Panels. Nazis. Socialism (long a part of our history, by the way) and government evil disguised as policies that would actually benefit us. Facts made no difference to these people. Whatever Fox told them, they believed. I've actually heard them admit it. They would not take reason over anger. That's fear.
And it is, despite what they might say, racial and ethnic. As ugly as that is, it is what I see. I challenge anyone to support the idea that we would be having this same debate if Hillary Clinton had been elected. The Chinese, Hispanics, Blacks and Arabs are tangible threats to this particular subset of white America. Women? Well, they rather like women. Don't understand them, but would have no fear of a petticoat revolution.
No one is winning. Nothing is being accomplished. And until we get used to the idea that all of the 300 million plus of us aren't leaving, and we ought to try to get some stuff done, then we all continue to lose. But it does have an end game. The population is becoming more racially an ethnically diverse every day.
The Loud Angry White Party has had it's last success. Washington is going to eat them alive.
Hamster Prez
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