So little by little, tweet by tweet, you\u2019ve come to grips with the sad reality that Donald J. the Trump is king of America. Hard, isn\u2019t it? Sleepless nights, muffled sobs of despair, an inchoate but ever present anxiety, a mounting anger and a refusal to fully accept this harsh new reality. You thought, with Obama winning the second term, we\u2019d turned a corner in this country. Oh, racism had reared its ugly head again, but \u2026 we were a pluralistic liberal society after all, we\u2019d solve these vexing problems. <\/p>\n
Just like you, I didn\u2019t see this coming. Sure, I\u2019d listened to Hot Talk Radio and those rating-hungry demagogues. I predicted Trump beating the Rhinos, but I sure didn\u2019t see him winning the Whole Enchilada. I couldn\u2019t imagine it. But \u2026 no need to tell you, unless you\u2019ve been self-medicating too hard, he did. I\u2019m not going to reiterate the man\u2019s foibles, you can read it in the lying press every damn day. What we\u2019ve all got to face, what we all need to understand, is we\u2019re in a culture war and we\u2019re losing. The kids aren\u2019t buying into Trump and so if you\u2019re willing to wait a decade or two, well, the tide will turn once again.<\/p>\n
But me, I waited through the anti-war Civil Rights 60\u2019s, the Nixon 70\u2019s, the Reagan 80\u2019s, got hopeful in the Clinton 90\u2019s, lost faith again in Bush\u2019s war years, then grew optimistic with Obama. Now we get the backlash. Easy to say it\u2019s just the old white guyz, those Fox News addicts who think their Anglo country is being over-run by immigrants and welfare queens, transsexuals and women in the military, who call themselves the real patriots because they think this is a Christian nation and by God they\u2019re Christians even if they never go to church on Sunday and they\u2019ve made Hate a breakfast cereal to wake up to every day of their unhappy lives.<\/p>\n
You don\u2019t win the culture war by staying in the closet. Ask your gay friends. Black Lives Matter has it right. The Occupy Movement had it right. Folks don\u2019t like uppity blacks? Tough. They think men shouldn\u2019t sleep with men? Tough. They think Hollywood is a bunch of neo-commies? Fine. They think immigration is a doorway for terrorists? Wake up. They want to make America great again? Welcome to the future. We won\u2019t be going back to Ozzie and Harriet, Ike and Tricky Dick. The America that\u2019s great is the one that honors innovation, fresh ideas, new blood. It\u2019s the America that\u2019s inclusive, welcoming, democratic and optimistic. And yeah, it\u2019s the America that\u2019s willing to fight back against the bigots, the small minded, the xenophobic and the misogynistic, the America that has nothing to fear but the fearmongers themselves. I say sharpen your pitchforks, we\u2019re in this fight for real now and I for one don\u2019t plan to lose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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