Lunatic Left

The GOP has been stoking the anger of the sub-GED class for decades, at least since Nixon's Southern Strategy. The Great Unhinged just soaked it in gasoline and tossed in a lit match. The Left Wing pundits, with the loss to The Great Unhinged are wringing their hands. It's a losing battle. Here's why.

There was, is, and always will be a skill/wage function. The more skill, the higher wage; assuming that the greater skill comes as result of ability and larnin. This function is out of the control of a Party or a President, at least in the short to medium term. And, moreover, that Party or President has to be serious about improving the skill level of the low/least skilled people. The GOP has never been interested. Educated folks tend toward Liberal because they simply understand the world better; not just life in the holler. The GOP would rather the latter.

Here's where the rubber meets the road: at least many, if not most, of the white uneducated, unskilled, underpaid underclass are in that condition by choice. Many may not realize it, and fewer would admit it. They favor huntin and fishin and fightin over book larnin. Just go look at the education data by Red and Blue. It ain't a pretty picture.

There's data to back this up, as Sosnik has previously written. In an August report on growing income inequality in the US, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis documented that for every dollar of wealth in a household headed by a college graduate, a household headed by a high school graduate has 22 cents

How then, to entice people who feel persecuted by the Lunatic Left to vote Democrat? They expressly ignore the fact that it's been the Dems who've legislated to provide them better opportunity. It's a fact that low-to-no skill labor earned a better wage when unions were not busted. The GOP, and their friends in bidnezz, did that. It will take a generation or two of increased engagement with education for the sub-GED class to move up. There was a time, even in my memory, when downtrodden parents were happy to see their kids finish high school and may be college. These days, not so much. Such families have been convinced by the GOP that their grievance (or just plain jealousy) against the educated folk is real, and not their fault. But it is. Such folk continue to elect politicians who offer shitty schooling; that has to stop.

As always the Evangelical Radical Right Reactionary Wingnuts offer up battle in a culture war instead of a path out of poverty. "Our reactionary view of the world is better than that Liberal shit of Blacks and Jews and Queers. We must rid the Real USofA of such 'absolute garbage'. It's us or them!"

The Electoral College was supposed to protect the country from government of, by, and for the illiterate mob. It's failed. Miserably.

The Great Unhinged and his cabal will party like it's 1829. Too bad the rest of us have to live that way, too.