I’m sorry guys, I can’t get there. It’s a sad thing to admit, but at this point gun control has become another means by which we deflect attention away from what’s really going on. Kids are killing each other because our public schools are run like prisons by overworked, underpaid, and under-trained teachers and administrators. American schools have become all about test scores and the human needs of students have become an afterthought. If we took the guns away, the kids would have a harder time killing each other, but they’d still be miserable. It’s the misery that most warrants our attention, not its result.

“If you look at the map of the United States, there’s all that red in the middle where Trump won. I win the coasts. But what the map doesn’t show you is that I won the places that represent two-thirds of America’s gross domestic product (GDP). So I won the places that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward” - Hillary Clinton, last week (emphasis added).

That was Hillary Goldman Sachs-Council on Foreign Relations Clinton saying “fuck you very much” to working- and middle-class people in Iowa, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Missouri, Indiana, and West Virginia. It was a raised middle finger from a super-wealthy arch-global-corporatist to all the supposedly pessimistic, slow-witted. retrograde losers stuck between those glorious enclaves (led by Wall Street, Yale, and Harvard on the East coast and Silicon Valley and Hollywood on the West coast) of human progress and variety (and GDP!) on the imperial shorelines.

Wow. Call it “Deplorables II.: The Wall Street Witch Strikes Again!”