An apology to the group

[IrishAyes]

13. I understand. Because I had to slip-slide into early retirement on a wing and a prayer,

I couldn't afford upstate Maine, where I'd prefer to be. Though considering their present governor, maybe that's just as well. I had to look for a place in the MidWest where the climate resembles ME but the cost of living's more affordable. Most of the people are TP types to one degree or another. Mostly they're xenophobic as hell, and it colors everything else in their world. Robert Reich had a good post on FB today about fear driving this senseless voting against one's own best interests. That's why red states have worse unemployment than blue states, and it's exactly what the plutocrats want: a cowed wage slave population. Trouble with feeding that fire is that eventually the pot always - always! - boils over one way or another, sooner or later. Until then, many of the victims develop Stockholm Syndrome.

Well, anyway, I like Robert Reich. I like Krugman, too.