12ozProphet

I’ve found in the past four years since Obama’s call for unity in his historic DNC address, it’s been more and more difficult to remember that about half our voting population are not old, white, malicious, fuck-witted war-pigs, but misguided, old, white people that believe that they’re doing good for this nation. Historically, progressives have tried to appeal to the logic of the electorate; We can’t spend money we don’t have. Tax breaks for the hyper-rich won’t help you. Gays and gay marriages are no threat to anyone.  but it should be painfully clear that if these truths haven’t sunk in by now, a new approach is desperately needed.

I know it’s instinctual to become more combative in the face of increasingly loud and ugly Republican smears, but I have to believe we’re better than this. Jonathan Haidt’s piece ‘ What Makes People Vote Republican ’ addresses issues of divisiveness and plurality thoroughly and with interesting empirical studies. Well worth the read.

Jasper Johns - Moratorium, 1969