{"id":211042,"date":"2020-09-21T11:50:41","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T16:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/?p=211042"},"modified":"2020-09-21T12:05:02","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T17:05:02","slug":"blue-states-vs-red-states-aint-the-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/blog\/blue-states-vs-red-states-aint-the-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue States vs. Red States Ain\u2019t the Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was planning to vent my wrath over President Trump\u2019s assertion that America\u2019s disastrous record in fighting the Coronavirus is attributable to the \u201cblue states,\u201d another of his seemingly endless falsehoods, but the death of Justice Ginsberg should takes priority over the President\u2019s latest stupidity.  Justice Ginsberg was a lifelong champion of gender and racial equality, and her passing is a devastating loss for the country.  Even worse, a great tragedy is about to unfold for the country if President Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell succeed in replacing her with another devotee of the conservative, backward looking, Republican agenda, the likes of Brett Cavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch, Trump\u2019s previous Supreme Court appointees. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I should mention that Mitch McConnell professes great admiration for my cousin (my mother\u2019s cousin, actually), Henry Clay, another Kentucky Senator, who was known as the \u201cGreat Compromiser\u201d in his day (1777-1852) for helping to postpone the Civil War no less than three times.\u00a0 I seriously regret that\u00a0 \u201cCousin Henry\u201d may have prolonged slavery in the name of preserving the Union, but I\u2019m confident the man would be turning over in his grave and retching vomit if he saw what McConnell is doing in the name of his antiquated, old white man\u2019s, vision of what America should be.\u00a0 Justice Ginsburg pushed America to live up to its greatest ideals, its promise and potential, while McConnell wants to keep it forever in its flawed past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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President Trump, it has long-since become clear, only care about his own interests and getting reelected, and has no vision of America whatsoever.  If his \u201cbase\u201d subscribes to Leader McConnell\u2019s vision of America, which it most surely does, that\u2019s all the President needs to know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bottomline: America\u2019s Greatest Ideals are a Threat to the Top 1%<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Which brings me back to blue states and red states.  It\u2019s become commonplace to say the country is more divided now than at any time since the Civil War, but I increasingly fear it is even more so.  One group wants to take America into the future, while the other wants to return it to the past, the latter engaging in that apocalyptic battle I\u2019ve spoken of before.  All the while, most of the top 1% couldn\u2019t care less who wins, just as long as they hold on to wealth and power<\/strong> (think Trump\u2019s all but sacred stock market), just like the lords of the \u201cCotton Kingdom,\u201d that awful slave power I can\u2019t help always coming back to.  The sad fact is, America\u2019s greatest ideals pose a threat to their interests, so they\u2019re all too happy to let the flawed past prevail. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Putting aside the nauseating premise that blue state lives don\u2019t matter because they don\u2019t vote for President Trump, at this point the number of deaths in red states are about to overtake those in blue states, and despite the endless bullshit Trump likes to feed his base, in truth the blue states contribute far more to the federal coffers than red states, and the red states are more federally dependent.  But just as he ignores so many facts, so much reality that doesn\u2019t suit his purposes, the President will likely continue stoking the fires of division to no good end but his reelection\u2014which is no good end!  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My Cousin Henry may have been well-intentioned in trying to preserve the Union, but in doing so he helped prolong slavery for some thirty years.  I fear that Leader McConnell\u2019s effort to preserve an old white man\u2019s vision for America will result in a similar tragedy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s clear that President Trump only cares about his own interests and getting reelected and has no vision for America whatsoever. If his \u201cbase\u201d subscribes to Senate Leader McConnell\u2019s antiquated, old white man\u2019s vision for America, that\u2019s all the President needs to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211047,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211042"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211049,"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211042\/revisions\/211049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}