I love your account of this painful journey, and the view from your seat of these sanctimonious petty and mean minded little dipshits. I'm a Joe Biden democrat, which puts me in a lonely place with few friends. I can't stand the far right and especially the church / evangelical wing, will never allow that pack of thugs to give me any kind of orders. However, I am equally horrified by the bitterness of the far left groupthink. I have in-laws in Wisconsin who are mostly uneducated blue collar folk, and they are perfect cannon fodder for OAN / Fox / Trump. But counter to progressives' stereotypes, these people are extremely kind, honest, hardworking and friendly.

It distresses me that even while the GOP is acting like a crazed meth head, the Democrats are unable to corral a good 60-70% of the electorate into a big tent voting bloc that can guide us to a more civilized America. Instead, they are determined to alienate everyone who doesn't 100% support their far left, faculty lounge agenda of critical race theory, kill the rich, hate the police and attack all white people. How the fuck these people expect to get re-elected is baffling to me.

When a group of (I forget their name) white supremacist dingbats marched in Charlottesville they carried banners saying "You will not replace us". This is very pertinent: the neoliberal agenda of Clinton / 1990 designed a flatter, smaller planet where good and services could cross borders easily, making almost everything cheaper. Nice. But this had a devastating effect on America's factory and warehouse workers. We created the monster that rose up in Steve Bannon's dream, to attach the liberals and tell them we have enough poor uneducated angry people in America that anytime they want to they can storm the Capitol and maybe next time, complete their coup attempt.

All of this is unnecessary, if we could just dissolve our two party idiocracy.