It’s really pretty interesting. I was talking to a former Trump supporter, a die-hard Republican, and he’s fascinated by what he sees. He acknowledges that what is happening here in the Atlanta area is that a lot of people are basically refusing to work, and he gets why. The pandemic changed things in ways that the “they” did not anticipate. He’s a retired businessman and he had a good point. He said that he paid his employees enough that they could buy a house and a car and have some money left over to send the kids to school. Nobody does that anymore.

When I went to college, I paid 400 bucks per semester at a big public university in Illinois (yeah I’m old but still). I worked during the summer at a grocery store to pay for it. Room and board seemed expensive at the time, but it was nothing compared to these days, and we were able to cover it somehow. You just can’t these days. Not without big ass loans that keep you in debt forever.

It’s all changed — it started with Reagan (we called him Raygun) and it has been 40 years in the making.

You say you hope they are thinking about it. They aren’t. They are only thinking about how to hold on to what they have.

If progressives don’t sweep into power, the system will collapse. It might anyway. Then it will get very ugly.