"The White Rage That Could Put Trump Back in the White House"

Science!

 I'm not saying that Trump doesn't suck (at least in many ways), nor that a fair percentage of his supporters don't (at least in many ways). They do, and they do.

   But what it really comes to is that this is kind of hard to take from the postpostmodern irrationalists and progressive elites who have basically got us into this mess by being such dickheads.

   Sometimes I think: the (as we would say back home, pardon my French) backwards-ass country f*cks who constitute a large percentage of the crazies on the right...well...they're just an inevitable part of politics and human life. Cost of doing business. Like the flu, blisters, copperheads, and whatnot. The crazies on the left are not. They didn't have to be there. The crazy wing of the left is almost entirely manufactured by the left itself--largely the intellectual/academic left. There's really no excuse for the deification and continued influence of Marx, Gramsci, and, to be honest, Lenin. The crazy left is like a UFO cult--it took a lot of creativity to come up with that shit. The other guys I see as one of the default conditions of humanity. Not so for the left.

   Also, though this is almost too obvious to say: the right is no more conspiracist than the left--it's rather that crazy beliefs of the left are not deemed to be conspiracy theories by...the left! Or, more precisely, the left-controlled institutions that have arrogated to themselves the authority to make such decrees. Russiagate: conspiracy theory. Russia stole the 2016 election: conspiracy theory. Hunter's laptop as Russian disinformation: conspiracy theory. America = "systemic racism:" conspiracy theory. "The patriarchy:" conspiracy theory. These conspiracy theories consume(d) the left and were/are taken seriously as a result. QAnon has never been anything but an object of ridicule...despite the fact that, as I initially denied, there turns out to be an uncomfortable hint of truth in it... And I haven't mentioned any of the older left-adjacent conspiracy theories about AIDS, crack, vaccines, GMOs, Bush's alleged pre-knowledge of 9/11, Republican theft of the 2000 election, Republican theft of the 2004 election (which yours truly bought into for quite awhile), the "vast right-wing conspiracy" against Bill Clinton, vast Jewish-Zionist conspiracies, the World Bank, "disaster capitalists"....and undoubtedly some I'm forgetting. [Like: October Surprise theory in the 1980 election.]

   Again, none of this is to deny that rural Americans, Trump supporters, and conservatives don't have their own problems. Rather, it's just me bitching again about how blind the left is to its own bullshit and lunacy. And to complain at the outright disdain our "elites" have for ordinary Americans.