8 months into America's Covid Pandemic

 I still can't believe that some ppl haven't worked in 8 months b/c of a cataclysmic pandemic and the GOP response is 'what...you don't have a year of savings in the bank? What about dipping into your trustfund?' And STILL the majority of broke white voters said 'I just feel more comfortable that they represent my position.' 

Through some divine coordination of timing and circumstance I happened to be employed on 2 tv shows when this pandemic started. Both shows came back and gave me a bump in salary and title. And STILL I fume at millions being evicted. My response was never 'oh well, I'm doing great. Sucks for you.' I thought empathy for countrymen and neighbors was a normal reaction during a disaster. But I'm the snowflake for caring. We have crossed over from basic group empathy to some deeply-embedded inhumane tendencies based upon intersections of toxic masculinity, white fragility, ruthless capitalism, and a warped Evangelical Christianity created to support a modern-day caste system. All the states that have adopted this psychopathic governing model are the worst. I mean that literally and statistically. All the deep red states soaked in the blood of Jesus and Trump, are the poorest, worst educated, heavily polluted, and sickest. Mississippi and Alabama might as well adopt the names 49 and 50 because that's where they rank on most lifestyle standards. These regions are dying of covid at some of the highest rates in the world. There is no benefit to living to die...except trolling libs. Their citizens are being decimated in both slow and fast ways. They love America and believe we are the greatest, but all the things that make America 'great' in traditional ways exist in blue states. Our innovation hubs, cultural capitals, towering monuments envied by the world, financial centers are almost entirely in blue states. If it wasn't for oil and gas, Texas would be 'fat Kansas.' Even within Texas, their hubs of capitalism and culture are blue areas run by Dems: Austin, Dallas, Houston. Their values are contradicted in every way by how the people live: higher rates of teen pregnancy, STD's, poverty, malnutrition, and general misery. 

8 months into what looks like an 18 month genocide of 400,000-500,000 Americans and the GOP is working around the clock on...appointing judges. They have tasked themselves with undoing democratic election, gumming up every sector of government that could help people in crisis, and doubling down on a fetishistic rape-y obsession with AOC, whom I love her but admit that she has ZERO power. She is a freshman Congresswoman from the Bronx who is ignored by her own party. But I get it...she's a brown woman who speaks her mind so apparently that makes her Hugo Chavez in the imagination of conservatives. 

8 months later and it's like 'damn, you really dying on this hill of mass graves?' They are. They totally are going to do it. And hundreds of thousands of Americans are going to die. Needlessly. Cruelly.