British Leftist wonders: Could there be a Civil War if you ignorant wingnuts reject Obama?

Via The Drawn Cutlass, I see this from the Guardian, and really, she gets the basic underlying causes of the divide in America far better than most lefties.  But what is amusing about it is that she engages in exactly the same behavior she acknowledges is defeating her leftist comrades over here in the US.  In her fleeting moments of lucidity, this stuck out,

So clear is the divide between big-city and small-town America that one American friend said to me: "These whitebread Republicans are like children - someone has to tell them what to do and what to think, they're incapable of independent ideas."

The conviction by the left that the right is stupid is one of the defining and least attractive characteristics of contemporary politics. Assuming that anyone who disagrees with you is too dim to get your point is not itself a particularly brainy way to win others over to the essential correctness of your views.

Yep, and the Moron-in-Chief made similar points in his analysis of the Palin speech.  The only thing different here is that we have a lefty who actually kind of sees it, which is interesting, despite the fact that the entire article is laced with exactly the kind of obnoxious behavior she notes that our left engages in. What I find interesting is the fear that starts to show in the latter part of her article.  She says this,

So America is stuck. Two countries, mutually irreconcilable, who never meet each other and don't want to, either. Who distrust each other at best, despise each other at worst. And who have absolutely no understanding of the other.

To an extent, she's right, there is a serious divide in the US, and it is growing, but the next bit she wrote is pathetic.  It's almost like she's trying to bargain with us wingnuts, asking if it'd be okay to give us our duck guns and deer rifles, church socials and idyllic small town bumpkin life, and her enlightened leftist counterparts in America control the rest.  Hey Linda, FYNQ.  We're not ceding the nation to your Marxist counterparts willingly.

Which brings us to our writer's big fear,

Can America survive another photo-finish election which the Republicans win, or will it be out and out war between the red and the blue states? Perhaps only small-town America itself can prevent it, such as the dental nurse who asked how the mother of five kids, one with Down's syndrome, could hold down a full-time job, one step from running the United States. Sarah Palin, bad mom. That might finish her.

Amazing.  She can understand that the reason the left loses presidential election after presidential election in America is because of it's inability to control it's raw hatred, ignorant sneering and open disdain of middle America, yet she can't help but engage in the same obnoxious behaviors and expects that somehow there will be a different result. 

She acknowledges that the left's obnoxious smugness is why they lose, and yet she has the nerve to ask conservatives to take some pittance and capitulate to head off a civil war?  Incredible, this is exactly the noxious blend of narcissism and insanity that the Moron-in-Chief addressed so brilliantly addressed earlier.  These people really can't control themselves.

Maybe this is a lament?  Maybe she knows they can't change, and that they can't win in America?  Is this desperation?

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