they are voting Republican to get even with Wall Street

[nadinbrzezinski]

yet that phrase is in "What is the matter wiht Kansas." I got the book (FINALLY) today and started readying it and entering a world, as presented, that is very ahem Orwellian and even alien.

let me repeat this again, "they are voting Republican to get even with Wall Street."

Now these are the sme folks who are in many ways going to be against any form of gun control ranging from the Assault Weapons Ban, to background checks, or licencing... only us foreigners and liberal, latte drinkers on the west coast will even sugest something as alien and unamerican as a licensing proceducre for gun owners (never mind we own two, we would have to go get licenced... what bout them apples? And I even had a latte today... and it is cold so I may just get the espresso machine out and make myself another one)

I have not been able to delve too far into the book, but what is clear is that we have had a transformation of historical proportions, farmers and other salt of the earth folk who are PISSED at the decline of culture and have bought the whole culture wars line, hook and sinker, never mind that their own lives, economic lives have gone down the drain

In modern "red America" Somebody like Debbs would have a life expectancy of ten minutes...

So this is a critical book, whether you are talking of the economy or gun control

Oh and at least my local barnes and noble has the hard cover dirt cheap, actually bellow the cost of a soft cover... in fact, will get my brother in law a copy tomorrow

[billbuckhead]

1. Read Albion's Seed, the southern working class/Borders group are our enemy

Liberals and rational people need to straighten their asses out or America will be a struggling third world country in a decade and we will be forced to fight desperate wars not of our choosing. The more we kiss their asses, the more power they have. The reason we won the House is because Yankees fired every Republican they could in a show of regional unity like the PuKKKes do in the South. Remember how the neoCONS and their redneck horde thumped their chests, festooned their pickup trucks and cheered along with Faux News when we occupied Iraq? These people make bad decisions and only learn the hard way. If it's not god, guns and gays, it will be something else. This isn't a class war, it's an ethnic war between the Scotch-Irish/Cavaliers and the Quakers/Puritans just like the war of southern rebellion was.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. I've read Albion's seed

and the problem is... these whole region has gone from ... producing people like Debbs (If you ever saw a socialist it was her), and gave rise to Social Security. Scarely two geneartions later these folks have turned to a populist message that is very religious in tone

So I think part of the answer is in the two americas

The other, is the disolution of the country, which clearly is what this divisive talk is leading to, clearly

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. kick