All This Red and Blue Crap
Yeah, not supposed to use that kind of language if your vocabulary’s above about 5th grade, but sometimes a word is a word is a word. Crap perfectly describes my attitude toward those who have suddenly found it fashionable to divide my country up like a poorly-made quilt.
We’ve always been a divided country and thank-god for it, it’s our greatest strength. Without division, how is intellectual, spiritual and economic growth possible? The best current example of what happens without division is the cancerous growth of Wal-Mart and, now that we’re growing tired of Sam Walton as a low-wage icon, it’s division that will bring changes. Division is the point-man of American change. Let’s celebrate.
Yet it pains me to see maps of my country red-and-blued. For one thing, it’s an Electoral-College coloring rather than an accurate indication of electorate mind-set. The electorate, the common terminology for a widely disparate mass of individuals, all with differing needs, desires and aspirations,…