tiedrich tweet: holy fucking shit, there was another school shooting yesterday and it barely made a

[barbtries]

46. that's kinda funny.

my father, the Democrat, was from Texas. My mother, who if alive would probably be full on Q, born and raised in LA. My oldest brother is the one I am estranged from although we've never formalized the estrangement. We're all from California. I'm as liberal as they come just about, but the city I came from (Torrance) is so racist they refused highway funds from the feds so they wouldn't have to hire Black people as police officers. The city my son lives in now (El Segundo), was a sundown town. He's as liberal as I am, but his kids go to school with children whose parents are...not.

I love that my home state is a blue state, but it's also a very heavily populated state, and there are large pockets of horrifying there too. Just as there are wonderful liberal Democrats in TX who can't seem to muster the numbers to turn it purple let alone blue.

This is why I wonder how a civil war could play out here. Most of us all live together in the same place. At the same time we are so polarized that it is overwhelming.