As Iraq wore on and particularly in the wake of Katrina, all of a sudden the second explanation started winning and became The Answer. We rediscovered a zine from the 80s that laid it all out for us. Iraq, Jesus Camp, Eminem. Suddenly it all clicked into place.
As far back as I've been posting there's been two competing left explanations of the American populace: that they're essentially in favor of communism if you describe it in a less charged way, and that whites would throw themselves into a furnace to mildly inconvenience blacks
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I grew up in the suburbs and knew no reason to feel one way or the other about politics. What I did know was every liberal I saw representing themselves as the calm voice of Civilization in a world that didn't make such easy sense to me. By 2007 W had us all in the same boat.
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