re: #85 Dr Lizardo

Yeah, it is. Half the country is living in a completely different reality.

The real Republican base, the hinterland gentry, is not stupid. Their low-class dupes are but the local elitists themselves know that objective reality, in the form of demographic change, dooms their long-standing privilege. Generational decay, fed by poor, culturally embedded reproductive choices and bad child-rearing, is also a factor. They have no choice, therefore, but to try to create an alternate reality and to grab enough power to make it real. It is a desperate gamble but they have no choice, and we may expect a very hard struggle before they are defeated and consigned to the dust-bin of social history.