by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
It is very clear that MAGA is nothing more than white identity politics. And it’s all happening because America is careening, because of demographics, into being a majority minority nation. And the marketplace of ideas is a reflection of that and, as such, American mass media is beginning to simply reflect what is really going on in the country.
And, before I got any further, I’m currently writing a six novel project that has a lot — and I mean A LOT — of representation in it. But I do have two eyes and ears and can recognize how corrosive some of the more extreme elements of the “woke” agenda can be.
Anyway, the crux of the issue is Blue States and Red States are receding from each other on both a cultural and political basis at an alarming rate. So, you have Red States embracing white identity politics and Blues States have an amorphous ordoxy that Reds call the “woke cancel culture mob.”
But the issue is, Reds a freaked out that white, straight Christians will soon be in the minority and Blues embrace this new world. (Does just pointing this out mean I’ve been Red Pilled? God, I hope not. Jesus.) The fact that Reds and Blues are so different in their interpretation of even the most basic of facts is how we got Trump.
And, ultimately, it could be why we either turn into a MAGA autocracy or have a civil war. In short, we’re fucked. Fucked big time. Blues and Reds just no longer see the factual world in the same way and one side — Reds — is politically ascendant and want to force the other side — Blues — to bend a knee. This is exactly the unstable recipe that caused the first American Civil War when slave power thought free soil Republicans wanted them to bend a knee.
I don’t know what to tell you, folks. There are a lot of different ways this could go, none of them great.
