To Fight a Culture War You Need Two Sides.

Every once in a while, one of those yahoo politicians from a Southern state opens his or her mouth and says that the good people should secede from the Union again so that they can ‘take things back’ to the way they used to be. Meaning, of course, the way things used to be when the non-Whites and the gays and the Planned Parenthood fanatics kept their mouths shut and everything was the way it was supposed to be.

You’ll hear this kind of comment from Ted Cruz who says that Texas has oil and the NASA headquarters so what else do they need? And of course, when it comes to saying dumb things in public there’s always Marjorie Taylor Greene who refers to a ‘national divorce’ because the word ‘secession’ is probably too difficult a word for her to say.

But, sooner or later someone on our side will respond in kind, if only to prove that when it comes to getting your name mentioned on a website which pretends to be dealing with political events and news, the blue team has just as many morons competing for digital space as the other side.

I am referring to an op-ed floating around written by a guy who used to be the Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court who says that our cherished, democratic values were in free-fall during the Trump years, culminating with an insurrection which failed but the ‘dark days’ are still…