The Anger Has Been Simmering For A While

Fred On Everything – May 2015.

We read over and over of the Culture Wars, and the War between the Sexes, of Red States and Blue States, as if these were amusing disputes between parents and adolescents in a sitcom. Methinks something far uglier and more dangerous brews.

Almost daily, friends send me links to accounts of what seem to them, and to me, lunacy, usually accompanied by notes expressing incredulity and -this will matter one day–anger.

The anger is no longer simmering. It is boiling. The boys in charge had better watch out lest the anger boil over and ruin the stove. And it could be worse if what is boiling is gasoline. The whole house could catch fire or explode.