> Suffering is coming. > I’m what happens when a conservative believes the polls. I had wrongly thought that the polls swinging toward the Republicans meant that the polls were undercounting Republican support, as they have from time immemorial. I was wrong. Terribly wrong. > I was more right when I was being my cynical self a couple weeks ago and, on The Spectacle podcast with Scott McKay, wondered if America had gone so tribal that the current economically catastrophic conditions didn’t matter. Both on the podcast and in a piece here, I cited the low unemployment rate of the Keyboard Klass™, which makes up a big part of the electorate. When they have jobs, the world is fine, and so they don’t feel motivated to vote on economic issues, or even crime ones (they’re mostly in the ‘burbs) because they’re comfortable enough. And then there are all the opportunities that Republicans lost. They paid for their laziness. > More than that, though, America is balkanizing. They’re moving with their feet. Conservative people in New York and California are moving to Florida and Texas. They’re getting out of Dodge and that’s making the places they leave behind more Democrat, not less. The people of New York and Illinois and California will continue to drive out the middle class. There will be rich and poor. The poor will be drugged out, homeless wretches and crime will continue to increase. These places should be left to their own devices. Conservatives should take note and they should move to safer havens.