It was not long ago that Green Day released their hit album American Idiot. Some people love this album and others find it appalling. As usual, when it comes to popular music anyway, I fall somewhere in the middle. But regardless of what you think of the musical composition, you cannot deny that, lyrics wise anyway, it was different from most mainstream rock hits of the period. Here is a brief sample: "Don't want to be an American idiot. Don't want a nation under the new media. And can you hear the sounds of hysteria? The subliminal mind fuck America. Welcome to a new kind of tension, all across the alien nation, where everything isn't meant to be okay." Those are some pretty edgy lyrics, especially considering that, at the time of its release, America was still waging a holy crusade in the Middle East and interrogating brown people for the crime of looking suspicious to white people while in public. That song really spoke to me when it first came out, and, every once in a blue moon, I still rock out to it today. My only problem with the song is that, when it comes to America, the term "idiot" is, I think, a bit too lenient. I am not saying that there are not idiots in America; they are in every country. But calling a conservative who graduated from Yale and defied all odds to become president of the United States an idiot kind of misses the point. I feel the same way whenever I hear someone call a corporate democrat who has overseen some of the most important legislative decisions in recent history and who has served as both president and vice president an idiot as well. An idiot is just a stupid person. And, sure, perhaps there is some stupidity there, but that is a much smaller part of the problem than many of us realize. We like to fantasize that those who disagree with us are idiots; the song "American Idiot" is the ultimate expression of this fantasy, a clarion call to liberals living in overpriced majority white neighborhoods everywhere that they are somehow different, somehow set apart from the so called rednecks in this country. But, when one looks at the numbers, blue states have done very little to help those less fortunate than them. In California, voters continuously show up to Bernie Sanders rallies, pride rallies, black lives matter rallies, climate rallies and so on, only to then overwhelmingly vote against progressive candidates and policies. The reason California housing prices remain ridiculously high, for example, is because the people always vote against the building of affordable housing. It is not that the politicians have failed; it is that the people are sabotaging the politicians with their vote, while at the same time maintaining this veneer of altruism. This is why I voted for Gavin Newsom; replacing him with Larry Elder would have made no difference in housing cost because the voters in California simply hate those who are less fortunate than them and are engaged in a practice of trying to starve them to death. Then they complain about poverty. They send police to clear out homeless camps when these very voters created the massive homeless problem in the first place. In short, their bark is bigger than their bite. The same can be said about every blue state: New York, Illinois, New Jersey, etc. The wealthy white liberal voters in these states intentionally scheme to keep poor people out of their neighborhoods. They have rejected integration almost unanimously and actively work to segregate their neighborhoods while at the same time screaming at any southerner who dares do the exact same thing. They are indifferent to the suffering of people like me. This is why Malcolm X said, " The worst enemy that the Negro has is this white  man that runs around here drooling at the mouth professing to love  Negros, and calling himself a liberal...the history of the white liberal has been nothing but a series of trickery...to make blacks think the white man was going to solve our problems."