Tim Barrus, New York Times
America Is Too Big To Govern
Asking a politician to abrogate his own political fortunes to facilitate those who would encircle racial identity with their prerogatives intact. Old white men run the dog and pony shows. Social entropy only works when the dominate culture cannot hold the boundaries of the culture wars together. America is too big to govern. Racism is legal in many carefully disguised (Georgia), camouflaged, modus operandi whose conventions bow before the Status Quo. Anyone who thinks we have not recently been fighting racial culture wars since 1776 has not been listening. There is a way out. Give the State’s Rights Theories full-blown support. Give it all back to states. Wash our hands of it. In a year, entropy will leave us impotent as states themselves fail to make vaccination medications that can stand up to a virus that would undo culture wars for the real kind. Georgia versus Vermont. Alabama versus California. Michigan versus Iowa. Free speech rights. Water rights. Dam rights. Tax extortion rights. Gun rights. Passports, Kansas City to Kansas City. Toll highways. Air space. Poisons sold as stuff for us to drink. No healthcare for anyone. Republicans’ fifty state filibusters decide our future. Time stops. White Republicans sit back, chill, have cocktails as they gaze upon their kingdoms. Pandemic strikes. Again. What Republicans are actually selling, is death. Live free or die. No problem. The UN relocated to a Clay, West Virginia strip mall. No one will care where West Virginia is.