I Guess I Am Not A White Man

 Two hours to get home tonight - I had to go to CVS to get a prescription and it looked like we would have a big thunderstorm. I got #2 after work, stopped at the convenience store, and caught it back downtown, and from there I took #1 to CVS. Here, I missed the #1 back downtown, so I walked down to Payless to catch the #2 back home. I got back here around 3:30.

Chrome crashes but not as much as Firefox. I made my way through the email and showered. I did not nap! 

I worked on a scene for "Chasing Ashes".

CC called, she has been getting spider bites and was going to the hospital.

I finished the sketch and read a little more of the political news. Talked to K about coming over on Sunday.

Now, I am working on this post which J.D. Vance inspired.

If Vance is meant to shore up white male support for Trump, then I must not be a white male. This would be a surprise to my parents and my ex-girlfriends, but there it is. I can find nothing that makes me want to vote for Trump/Vance.

J.D. Vance Wants Kamala Harris to Be “Grateful” for White Male Power

For the record, one of Harris’s standard stump speeches has, for years, been about how her parents were both immigrants and discovered in America a “land of opportunity” that let her rise to the positions she’s held. She’s damn grateful for America.

But, apparently, she’s not sufficiently grateful to the white men who Vance believes created that opportunity for Harris and her family. When Vance says “grateful,” what he apparently really means is “deferential.”

In other words, she’s not sufficiently humble in the face of white wealth and power. Instead of gratefully deferring to the white men who are born to rule, she’s a pretender to the role of president, a usurper of the power and privilege that should never be in the hands of a woman, particularly a woman of color.

I always thought a man did not make himself look big by making others look small. Small men pulled others down to their level. Big men took on challenges. 

How the Internet Broke J.D. Vance's Brain does not make me any closer to Vance.

I bring up Stern’s book because it nails the character of “revolutionary” conservatism—just the sort of politics Vance represents. The junior senator from Ohio believes “culture war is class warfare,” and the priority he’s given the former has made it possible for him to claim to be a tribune of the working class in spite of a 0 percent score from the AFL-CIO on “voting with working people.” Other aspects of Vance’s profile keep Stern’s analysis in view: Owning the libs, for instance, is just the current manifestation of an impulse that appears in many guises for conservative revolutionaries, its perennial form being an encompassing hatred of “modernity.” This mode of politics prefers the intuitive observation to the reasoned judgment. It is suspicious of facts and data—tools that corrupt their users, you see—and privileges the abstract, categorical, and high handed. In general, it’s the point of view of someone who takes Thomas Cole’s The Course of Empire painting cycle to contain a subtle and profound truth about society, one best expressed in a familiar maxim: Strong men make good times; good times make weak men; weak men make . . . (I need to yawn and will let you fill in the rest).1

The women who raised me were not the sort to suffer fools easily. They expected me to be able to think (I wish they had applied the same rules to my sisters)  I thought men were supposed to be the rational ones until I just read this. If I had told my mother that facts and data did not matter, she would have wondered if we were related.

On the other hand, look at who wants to be President to Vance's Vice-President: Trump Proves With Latest Tantrum He Knows Kamala Harris Has the Edge.

Leave it to a Hoosier to bring common sense to the J.D. Vance problem:

While Vance was a P.R. guy for the Marines, Mayor Pete was getting shot at.

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