Epilogue

 Much more on this to come, hopefully.  But the tl;dr is something I already put up on X The Everything App a few weeks ago.

Right now there is no viable political party or project capable of, or really even intent on, solving any of our many societal problems. At the same time, though, there are numerous political projects dedicated to parsing out exactly who deserves to suffer the most and why.  

This morning you're already seeing the Democrats, who just ran a hard right campaign against a hard right opponent, cast about to place the blame for that failure on everyone but themselves. It's still an open question as to whether they settle on "Americans are just to evil and racist" or "There's too many people doing woke."  Maybe there's some synthesis there that will allow the party to ignore working class voters some more. Anyway, once this exercise is done the professional Dems will be taking all the money they made on their billion dollar campaign and headed out to brunch. They'll be fine. Someone else will deserve to suffer.