I'm in the % of the folks who just hate the gutless, degenerate, unethical GOP. I'll be liberal, progressive or OG if that's what it takes to sate my loathing.
If we hadn't fucked up the Florida game this would all be super fantastic. As it is, it's pretty fun. I thoroughly enjoyed the Miami, Ole Miss and Indiana wins. College football is completely fucked, but that's because of NIL and transfer rules. Playoffs are the least of the issues.
The netflix documentary Cover-Up about Seymour Hersh is pretty instructive about how journalists should be, and how we all should feel about the lies,, but it certainly shows the cost of being that way.
I still don't understand how anyone could see the Revolutionary War documentary and not realize that we've always been assholes, and always will be. The people who lead this country are mostly men, and men are predisposed to fuck up everything that moves. The only reason we can have nice things in society is when men subvert nearly all of their natural tendencies to practice at least some basic norms so that society doesn't blow up. And every once in a while we let some particular assholes blow it up. Not to pick on any particular folks but since Alexander, those assholes have mostly been white men.* (*Or in the present age, a few mexicans channeling their inner Spaniards.)
That's why I ignore them. Who the fuck cares about any of these folks. Show them the respect they deserve but ignoring them and not posting about them.
Just a side note regarding a nuance that was a personal experience. I'm the last of the boomers, and I went to a big public high school where 20 or so kids were applying to the Ivy's and the service academies. It was the absolute peak period of college admissions affirmative action. (A guy at one of the service Academy's told me that the only thing they wanted more than me (Hispanic male) was a black woman.
In any case, I got into every school I applied to. (Harvard was my safety.) I had a really great Jewish friend who was slightly above me in grades but not really great on the extracurriculars. I had a couple of other relatively comparable white friends who either didn't get in or didn't get the ai package they were looking for.
None of them has every shown any envy or expressed any sentiment that I didn't get in on my own merits. None of them have shown any evidence of any racial preference bitterness.
But I think two things can be true about them and about other generations - they can both 1) not have a racist bone in their bone and 2) have at least one experience in their lives where they felt that they got the short end of the stick based on race.
The former might guide their social choices. The later their political choices.
Understood. Not sure why one can't understand all of that teach all of that, and still make sure that one isn't discriminating on an individual basis or drafting policies that appear to do so.