Those people in the upper midwest

[Eric the Green]

You know, 40+ years ago I would never have believed that we would be in this situation in this country. It seemed like the Awakening was spreading everywhere. I thought most young people were getting an education. I thought fundamentalism was a fringe cult. My parents came from red America; my forebears had lived there for generations. Politically, one state was just about like another, except perhaps in the deep South. California was a swing state that leaned Republican and was the home base of Ronald Reagan. Until recently my district had had a Republican congressman who had served for decades.

Now California is the most Democratic state in the continental United States, and the most diverse. My county voted 73% for Hillary Clinton. The USA is divided between urban and rural, coastal and fly-over, seemingly forever. Proudly-under-educated and un-informed rural white folks have given us a proudly-ignorant and bigoted white president bent on destroying our country.

What a situation we are in. I don't think the country as it is can now survive this 4T. One way or another, it cannot continue as it is.