Monday, August 14, 2017

Charlottesville

It is hard to understand what is going on in the country now. And that difficulty is apparent in the commentators who presume to understand it. We seem to be generally intolerant of diverse opinions but take all opinions deadly seriously, as if they all have great inherent power.

The Charlottesville fiasco was the meeting of a few hundred neo-Nazi outliers, concentrated and brought to a boil. They were opposed by a few hundred outliers who thought the incoherent message of the neo-Nazi outliers needed countered. Two totally insignificant elements were added together resulting in combustion.

Neither of these two groups are a movement, they are a spasm.
What is worse is confusing these morons as a base of anything. The disaffection in this nation is real and profound. These people have little or nothing to do with it.

It was commented recently that there are more dwarves than transgenders in this country but we have included them at the center of our national discussion. So it is that we seemed doomed to focus in on the peripheral and try to learn and govern from intimations gleaned from the edge of the bell curve.

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