This Gramsci vs. Tocquevlle theory has got to be the most idiotic and
pretentious explanation of the basic US division I have ever heard of.
Anybody that looks at the electoral map of states won by the 2
imperialist candidates can clearly find where the fault lines are.
And they are both regional and metropolitan in character.

The basic division in the US continues to be North and Pacific Coast
states vs. Rural West and South.    Intermixed, is still another
division.... Rural and Suburbs vs. Major Metropolitan Areas.      As a
whole, suburbs are for Whites, not Blacks or Browns.

It is just as suicidal today as it was pre-Civil War era, to allow
racism and backward leaning culture in one region to fester
unchallenged.      And that is what has been done in the US for 125
years post Reconstruction Era, with the lone exception of the brief
Civil Rights struggles during the '60s.

Add to this, the unchallenged construction of the US suburbia by the
Right, post World War Two.      The capture by outright fraud of one
presidency is just a cherry on the cake.      The US Left lives today,
in cultural enclaves inside a few cities and a few university areas, and
even only inside a few isolated unions.

The Left will have to reconstruct an evangelical movement similar to the
Civil Rights Movement and the effort to form unions.     And it will
have to take the fight into the heartland of where the Right reigns
supreme..... the 'Sunbelt' and Western States.     Instead of adapting
and trying to be 'bumpkin' as proposed by the DLC, the Left has to
embarass the South, by showing it up for the 'bumpkin' culture it is.
Luckily, we now have the Beverly Hillbillies in office.      The enemy
is not exactly in disguise.

People from Alabama, Texas, Arizona, and the South as a whole, are
pretty thick headed.     So a subtle message of apologetic confrontation
will not change hearts and minds.    Add the elitest, meatheaded
delusionism of the better-off suburbanites into the equation, and only a
militant effort from city-goers to regain control of federal and state
monies will suffice.

The Left has been in full scale retreat in the cultural wars, ever since
they allowed the sickeningly sweet Jimmy Carter to take over post Nixon.
Ridicule will bring this current crew down, not accomodation.   The Left
lost the war to embarrass the Reagan team, which led to a 'lost
generation'.    Lose the culture war again, and we might lose the planet
with it.

Tony Abdo