Belief in female idiocy explains the urban/rural divide

I just wrote flatteringly about life in Huntsville. And I stand by it. But since then an old drunk white man reminded me of something I hate about the deep south.

And in writing about it, I think I’ve stumbled upon an insight about polarization, growth, and authoritarianism.

“You should read Sowell.”

I was already mad. At the bar starting a tab for a Huntsville New Liberals postcard writing event, a drunk, old white man had started a conversation. I told him we were writing to the Alabama legislature and invited him to join us.

Instead, he talked at me about how systemic oppression can’t exist because he became a millionaire despite getting expelled from two high schools.