Too bad nothing can change the territory we are moving through.

No reason. Redneck would have been better, actually. “Cracker” just popped into my head, I don’t know why. Around here “redneck” is one of those terms that may or not be an insult depending on who’s saying it to whom. Maybe the same is true of “cracker.”

Why not a “red neck?”

In my youth in northern VA a “red neck” was a rural, poor, ignorant, and often violent individual. This given to me from my father, a working class retired US Army sergeant, not college educated elite.

Saying someone is a “cracker” may not be neutral.

Now CC™ is predicting the future, or just wishcasting? Stockholm Syndrome.

A pretty ordinary skilled job involving electronics. Nothing to do with academia, journalism, law, or government, if that’s what you’re wondering. I didn’t know him that well but nothing in his background or current circumstances made me think he was a political fanatic of any stripe, much less a prog.

Bauxite: “My sense is that [Trump]’s wasting our last, best chance of avoiding a leftist dystopia.”

Mine, too. I’ve said here before that I think Trump’s presidency will in years to come be seen as a tragedy, at least by those who can see clearly what was happening in our time…if there are any such. He had some sense of what was wrong with the country and managed to break through the establishment wall. But for all the many much-discussed reasons he was not a person who could make lasting change.

Avi: just fyi, the guy I was talking about is not Jewish. Pretty much a cracker, actually, ethnically speaking 🙂