I haven’t read a stupider article in a long time

www.telegraph.co.uk/…

Maybe the UK just doesn’t understand us and I should cut it some slack. I am a loyal MSNBC viewer and pay $45 per month for Sling for no other reason than to access MSNBC. Seriously, MSNBC. If you offered me a subscription for less, I’d grab it and drop Sling in a hot minute. I also used to pay for Sirius/XM until I bothered to stream it to my car via my phone. But I’m one of the seemingly millions of us who haven’t watched since the election.

I’m amazed. In 2016, I could tell myself that maybe people didn’t really understand what they were voting for. And many people have told me that the vast majority of Americans read at a 6th grade level, don’t tune in, and don’t know how to distinguish good information from bad. OK. But I’m pretty sure: Trump’s message of racism, misogyny and violence has reached almost everyone. And they bought what he sold. And that makes me sad. And I don’t really want to think about it right now. I want to enjoy the holidays and not think about what assholes people can be. I’m not interested in examining them on a deeper level, understanding what they were thinking, or finding out why blue-collar voters voted for the union fighter rather than the party that picketed with them and saved their pensions. I know why. They liked Trump’s message of racism, misogyny and violence. Period. And I don’t think we need to adopt that message. He will screw them over and drive the economy into the ground like the Republicans do EVERY TIME we let them run things. And they will go the other way. And we will fix things, and they will feel comfortable enough to believe again that they can allow themselves to vote on social issues. And so forth. And so forth.

So I’ll be back at it in January… trying to figure out how to fight the good fight in a supermajority red state to make sure rural and union voters understand the pain they’re experiencing at the hands of Trump. I’ll be watching Rachel and Joy and Lawrence and Nicole…which are undoubtedly the ones I’ll continue to pay the fee to see. We have not given up on our sources of information. We just need a little time to mourn that America has once again reminded us that we haven’t come as far as we always hoped.