Let me premise this by saying that I’m a very liberal old white dude.
Picture Larry David.
Only more.
I feel powerless to help this country and the people who are losing all of the hard fought gains of the 20th Century Progressive movement.
I’m a white male. As you all know, I’ll be fine.
But I just can’t reconcile liberals losing to Donald Trump. It still doesn’t seem real. How did the vulnerable let that happen to themselves, their kids? It does make me angry, I admit. How’s that for self entitlement huh? An angry white guy angry at the vulnerable for letting people like me get away with beating them down. Takes self entitlement to the next level.
People like me, white males, should not be able to just steal this country out from under the rest of you in 2017. The numbers are there to win elections, if non-whites and women really WANT it.
Yes, white males made it harder to vote and we gerrymandered. Yes, we made civics so lowbrow and unappealing that nobody wants anything to do with it.
But don’t people realize what you’re losing?!
Don’t they get that it’s being taken from them and their kids and given to me, the last person on Earth who needs it? If they really got it, more Americans would vote.
Progressive taxes are about to be totally f@#ked.
And with them goes the debt and any hope for spending on the programs that allow any social mobility. We’re about to lock in who’s rich and poor for a long time to come.
Democrats will be paying this off for 50 years, or more. An entire generation will be irretrievably sold out by frightened ugly white voters, most of whom won’t even be alive 20 years from now.
They vote like it’s an infommercial. Like they’re watching a televangelist. They want to be lied to.
If we don’t win back control in 2018, I think in most American states you can close the book on The New Deal for good.
If you’re not living in NY or California, maybe a smattering of others, say hello to federalist feudalism, your new system of government. Your kids will never have a chance… unless they’re white males.
But I cant help the Americans who are going to be permanently relegated to serfdom. I know that by now. Life’s taught me the vulnerable have to rise up against people in my demographic. It’s the only way they can really save themselves.
A selection of activists and well meaning intellectuals can’t carry the weight.
I don’t understand young people or women, not really. I can’t create the world that might save you. You have to take it, by force if necessary.
I’ve come to realize there’s nothing people like me can do if the young, women, and non-whites can’t find a way to motivate themselves to vote in these midterms.
The midterms are killing the Progressive movement.
All the guilt and all the pain I feel right now won’t help any of you one damn bit. All my donations and calls and activism is a drop in the bucket.
The rural and suburban white tide washes it all away in an instant, effortlessly.
And I’m watching it all slip away and I feel utterly powerless.
I can’t save people if we can’t even pull it together enough to beat someone like Trump, in a presidential year. The next nationalist white supremacist fascist will be so easy for them to install.
The bar is so low on what constitutes an acceptable candidate now. Anything can get through now.
Our country has opened a portal to every demon in Hell that wants to run for office. And they will.
Trump clones are already popping up in races throughout the country.
Sometimes I get very angry that people didn’t vote in enough numbers to overcome the GOP’s bullshit shenanigans.
I think I’m just angry at myself for being so unable to help this country.
Are we like Russia now?
Is our culture suicidal?
Is our society self loathing?
Is that the problem? Deep down, do we all just want to destroy this place?
I mean, there are good reasons for Americans to be self loathing.
It sure feels like it the day after most midterm elections.
Sorry, I should go to bed.
As a white male I just feel permanently separate from the solution here. Most Americans need to beat people like me in order to save yourselves.
Please, please save yourselves.
Take this culture war to the next level.
Break out the pitchforks. Boycott.
VOTE!!
Save yourselves.
If America still wants to survive, fight!!!