Early Morning Notebook: Mid Summer of an Election Yr

Lincoln Project Energy: we did not become Republicans to be THIS racist in public. We have to work...in an office.

Evangelical Energy: God gave me social security so I could have the peace and comfort to vote for people trying to take it away from me.

Irony: if Georgia and Florida elected the blk Dem they would have shutdown earlier, with more force, and been out of the pandemic quicker...and Trump would be more popular in those states b/c the residents wouldn't have suffered the consequences of GOP policy. But also your conservative white grand daddy might also be alive b/c of those blk dems...so he could vote for Trump. Oh the lasagna layers of America's wacky moral compass. Blk ppl saving old white ppl so they can go out and hurt blk ppl in order to get rich white ppl who will kill poor white ppl...and then blame invisible Mexicans and ANTIFA. And the sick poor white ppl will hate these imaginary libs until their last dying, covid-diseased breath. Afterward, real Mexicans and gays move into their homes, spruce up the neighborhood, and increase property value. And then they'll get kicked out by rich white ppl.

Werking Poor: now that unemployment is at 20% can we just go back to calling ppl poor? 'Working class' is really just poor-in-training. And most ppl accept the title b/c we carry a lot of shame around money. But the majority of the country was and is one paycheck from disaster...aka poor. And the top 1% call you 'working class' so you don't think about the systemic reality. But really you are the "working poor." You will spend most of life on the edge of poverty AND you will have to work your ass off just to stay alive. And so will your children. Your pension, healthcare, housing, and education was, is and will continue to be under constant attack by the rich because it is psychological warfare to get you to be meek and scared and ashamed...and unable to see that there are far more working poor people than the 'inherited rich class.' It has nothing to do with pleasing Jesus or 'working' into or up from your class. You are the working poor. And until you change the economic model, the rich will just try to hide the reality from you by giving you fancy aspirational titles while denying you basic human dignities.