WHITE INFERIORISM USA (Upset Stupid Assholes)

  Since Trump decided to run for office in 2015 I've been hearing about the poor, marginalized, disenfranchised, ignored, left-behind, "upset" white person in America. Now that hunting season is over the staff here at HWS will turn our attention to religion, art, politics and yes, some of our disgruntled brethren. Don't worry. It won't be forever. Turkey season starts May first.

     The left leaning media like NPR, CNN and PBS seemed to have been taken by surprise by this demographic of forgotten ones in the hollers and hovels of the hinterland beyond suburbia, and fell all over themselves to send correspondents to Bugfuck, Wherever to interview them.  "Tell us, why are you angry?" the reporter asks as the camera pans across a $50, 000 pickup and a bass boat in the back yard.  When I say these are my people, I do not announce this with any pride.  I merely want to point out that I come from (and now live) in the same small town, rural, predominantly white context that seems to breed these unhappy knuckleheads. The fact that they use words like "exceptional" or "supremacy" would be hilarious if it wasn't sometimes accompanied by violence. Until recently I dismissed them as simply misinformed and never saw my neighbors as a serious threat. My attitude has changed slowly through the Trump years. These White Inferiorists are like a rattlesnake in a hollow log. How much do you need that firewood?

     It's easy for Daily Show correspondents or even PBS to find absurd, over the top anti-vaxer, Trump supporters who barely have a grip on reality. These predominantly white, overweight, slack-jawed mouth-breathers are great on camera and make everyone on the left feel superior. One has to constantly remind one's self that 21 million people think Joe Biden stole the election. A big percentage of those Republican denialists think violence is justified in order to return Trump to power. They can't all wear sequined cowboy hats or Proud Boy tactical gear. It's the real estate agents, insurance salesmen, cops, carpenters, waitresses, teachers and school administrators, mainstream Republicans blindly following FOX that are the ones to fear. Florida Gov. De Santis wants to deputize a "Florida Army." Black, brown, or Hawaiian  shirts for the uniform?

   Tomorrow is the 1/6 anniversary. We don't have a good name for this day yet. Thanksgiving (the most historically revisionist of all holidays) replaced Evacuation Day, when we drove the Brits out of New York City after the Revolution. Somehow Lincoln involved the Pilgrims and Indians in the national "give thanks" false feast narrative. Indians and turkeys got the worst of it.  Insurrection Day sounds too celebratory. 1/6 doesn't have the same ominous ring as 9/11 and it will take some time to see how society compartmentalizes the storming of the Capitol by Trump incited Upset Stupid Assholes. Happy Upset Stupid Asshole Day? That has a nice ring to it.