I suppose it’s fitting, then, that these particularly remote, commonly white enclaves continue to experience the self destruction of loneliness, crime and drug death.

They and their predecessors championed those terrible policies to enhance disconnection, without understanding the consequences they now endure.

Even if we urban/suburban folks could reconnect with them, it’d be generations before there was true mutual understanding.

As for them forcing politics on the rest of us… we’ll see.