My Response to Michelle Goldberg:

“It is perhaps beyond repair.” What is the perhaps about. Whenever I write two words – Civil War – that’s it. I am kicked out again. This, too, will get the boot. (It just achieved that status). I write because I have to. We are not at a crossroads.

We’re fucked.

I am here to tell you they are coming to take your children.

Isn’t that what they say about us. Your children are watching television as I write this while they quickly change the channel to the pornography of Fox News to get a differnt take. A more Bloody Sunday one.

We have to stop calling a spade a toad. But what do I call the New York Times.

They take themselves SO seriously. First, I’m up there with something, or other, then, they rip it down. The first time they did it, I laughed and laughed. Now, it’s just dull.

Hocus Pocus, I wonder how it all sounds the same.

Civility is who has the bigger gun. Men do this. Nice civil wars are not the kind of wars that take place in reality. In reality, it’s the Long Creeping Wars that win. I’ve been writing for years that the old civil wars and the new civil wars are the same civil wars that have wrapped the planet in its craw. Michelle is right. She seems emotionally exhausted.

I am, too. It’s not a crime. In fact, it’s human. I was glad to read this because there is a detachment, too. How do we keep living our lives in this reap the whirlwind without being at least a little, detached. Detach or pop a pill.

Civil wars come from culture wars. There are those of us who are on the front lines of the culture wars try and try again. Our side (please) clings to hope but hope is soap. It washes all the cling away. Union ships sailed south. This story has been told. Michelle can write the words Civil War. But I can’t. I get the boot again. I assure you, civility can be enforced, but you are not going to win. I live in Southern Appalachia. The writers at the New York Times seem annoyed these days. You don’t have time to be annoyed. Jeepers creepers, is this a civil war. Are we in one. They’re going to shoot their guns off into the air to make a point in Texas. Uvalde is not Fort Sumter until it is.