The other day I saw a bunch of people at a Trump rally burning the American flag and my first thought was what were these people going to do when White people start burning the American flag?

Appalachia is my home, most of my people are still there and it’s odd a wealthy man from NYC speaks to them.

My military service, and that of my forefathers is what I regret the most. Well not when they were killing yankees, but everything since the War of Northern Aggression

I grew up comfortably in this “Intellectual Class” but Dad remembered the hard days of the Depression and his Grandfather’s hardscrabble farm. The angriest I remember him getting at me was when I casually tossed out some sneering reference to the problems of the Working Man. He had no patience for that sort of thing, and so I had a correction to the Class Condescension problem at quite an early age. Fortunately, it stuck.

And so while I am a card-carrying member of the Intellectual Class (multiple papers published in the technical literature and all that), I feel this same rage at the sneers from people who should know – and behave – better. There’s no mystery to me about what Trump’s appeal is, and in fact there is a sense of kindred spirit: he, too, came from this same class. He, too, rejected the easy prejudices of that class. He, too, is impatient with those who should know better.

“Huh, I can’t get a job at the factory anymore. I guess I better do drugs instead!”

I’m not saying these people weren’t screwed over, but they were enthusiastic partners in the being-screwed over business.

In comparison Liary in her colored jump suits looks like space Kim Jong-un! I bet she can’t wait to go look at things once in office…