I'm Taking A Time Out From MSNBC Since Nov. 6th......

[Thunderbeast]

6. Nobody in my family has watched the teevee news since election day.

Most of us were MSNBC junkies until November 5.

I don't blame the network. They continuously told us that this was a toss up race.... We have been selective in what we wanted to hear.

Our level of outrage toward the media is misplaced.

Those of us with educations and comfortable coastal lifestyles underestimate the underlying resentments that dwell in middle America. They just don't trust us. They don't believe that unions are the key to prosperity; Unions are just another bunch of cronies that want a piece of their paycheck. They have lost sympathy with addicts and the poor, believing that they, themselves, have comfortable lifestyles due to their own hard work and cleverness. In their view, poverty and addiction signs of moral failings.

Those of us in the liberal bubble don't get that. It is not the ignorant clowns in the MAGA hats interviewd by Jordan Klepper that elected Trump. It is the disenchanted folks carrying resentments from the sixties that feel left behind, and Trump provided the scapegoats necessary to Channel their resentments.