Yeah, none of this makes too much sense. In related news, I saw four recent quotes from people who voted trump. I only read one. That was enough. People, voting people, generally have no idea about national politics. I know you think that's belittling and no I don't have to be an asshole to their faces but to put it nicely, I feel like underestimating confusion in today's political info environment is a huuuuuuge thing we're mostly all still doing.

I have no confusion about the political environment. It all makes total sense. Rural white voters have taken it in the ass since NAFTA and Democrats have increasingly become the party of social issues, which means they have nothing to offer rural white voters. Who are 75% of the hinterlands, those places given outsized power by the electoral college.

The problem in 2016 was that Clinton had no charisma and Trump did. The problem in 2024 was that prices had gone up and there's no solution to that. My principle beef is that any discussion that starts with "they know not what they do" ends with "so they will of course endorse every evil thing this administration wants to accomplish" and any attempt to get at the nuance of it has no chance of getting through your McFlurry of recrimination and it's fucking exhausting.

I play Wordscapes now. Fuckin' anagrams and butterflies, bitch. Because everyone's divine right to keep losing their shit no matter the conversation is too exhausting to bear. Meanwhile we're out here writin' laws and revising contracts and upping reimbursement but according to Spence, it's all a waste of time we should all get out there and start shooting CEOs.