I like bird watching and I listen to country music while enjoying a good alcoholic beverage.
There’s Normals and there’s Not Normals.
Fun Kentucky Derby fact: the horse that was runner up to Secretariat in 1973, Sham, is the second fastest horse in Derby history.
I believe our uncivil political division is created and exacerbated by - and falls primarily at the feet of these institutions:
- Network/cable News
- Education System
- Hollywood/TV Series.
The anti-Christian anti-American people who control these institutions are responsible for the dangerous political climate that we have today.
The question I ask myself is why haven't Christian and pro-American people been able to take control of the previously mentioned institutions?
[he might have continued] but don't think my insouciance obscures my ogling in flagrante delicto of the tres chic haberdashery de femme at said equine événement.
Old Emmett Tyrrell is still embarrassed that he went to Indiana University and not Princeton.;-)
Then, on the Right there are two group; the lockstep "conservatives" who unquestioningly accept and parrot the bullshit emanating from the Republican Party. They're as uninformed and as disinterested in truth and reality as the leftwing "useful idiots." Rounding things out we have a fourth group - informed Americans who believe in the Constitution and in the God given rights of Life, Liberty and the right to live one's life as one sees fit to.
Out of all four groups, they are the most well informed, logical and realistic.
On another section of this article, what the hell does enjoying rock music have to do with a predilection towards being a leftwinger? Stupid assumption. Based on that silly assumption I guess Ted Nugent is a raging lefty, as am I.
Like the author I too no zero about Horses but think them beautiful creatures and especially the thoroughbreds. I also look forward to these races so I can see the best of the best.
I take offense to the rock music comment. In fact, I bet classic rock fans from the 70s and 80s make up the bulk of Trump’s base!
Visit and tour Churchill Downs sometime, it’s quite interesting place.
It’s also quite an eye-opener as to the ability of media to control and present exactly what they want to the public, no matter the conditions on the ground.
Noticed while walking there that all the classic television shots you see are tightly framed and controlled, because everywhere else was old and decrepit. The whole place looked like it had been airlifted into a slummy neighborhood as well.
Chatting with a local, they mentioned how all the glitterati show up on race day, just out just in time to get their photo opps and go watch the race, and then run like hell for their limos back to the airport.
We're already there from what I can see.
And, I cannot live with or be around the "other" culture which I am diametrically opposed to.
A complete separation is the only answer.
I don’t think its so clean as that, and as a result, its not going to break cleanly into sides. There is a generational element, and a whole lot of conspiracy theories and fake news giving strange talking points to various people who then go and annoy their family and friends until someone can talk them down from whatever weirdness they are evangelizing about.
What we have is the globalists trying to push the culture of Philistines off on the rest of us, its a sort of magpie collection of random shiny objects. Then you have the populists who just wish they’d stop mucking up art, music, literature. Then there are other nations pushing really polarized fake news taking the most extreme positions against cultural norms. You have RT news pushing the idea that biological women taking testosterone will turn into supermen thanks to a fluke in female biology, you have the Chinese trying to say Western vaccines are both ineffective and unsafe. Then there are enviro-whackos like RFK, Jr. using his position as Democrat royalty to push the anti-vax message. Con artists always go to where the money is, and America is where the money is. Money and power. Its not cleanly Red vs Blue states, its messier than that.
I think you have a huddled mass of citizens watching various members of the tribe get picked off by identity politics or anti-vax conspiracy theories. Most people are not going to be happy with either of these, so most people are going to mostly agree on things like defunding the police is a bad idea. They are going to want infrastructure to have a traditional definition, but by the same token they will recognize that Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” hasn’t worked in a globalist world where countries try to sabotage each other. Most people are going to agree that Hollywood and the award shows suck. Red or Blue, we want our darned roads fixed and we don’t want to be continually preached at by purveyors of the social sciences (that would go extinct if taking their courses became entirely voluntary).
The only thing that will fix the problem is Christianity. Having differences is not a problem if the Creator is prevalent throughout the country. Only in His absence could coastal life, mountain life, and plains life be a possible cause for war rather than bringing variety and bounty to all.