Excellent advice! Those scary RED maps don't serve us well at all. And lifetime GOP voters in your area might be having second thoughts as this administration gets more and more un-American. Walk the talk of love your neighbor, and open the tent to fit in those who've been made homeless - figuratively and literally.
I have lived in red states with coastal regions most of my life. There are plenty of blue voters in each state, but they face an uphill battle *every single election* thanks to gerrymandering and voter suppression. It's made harder by the fact that the DNC effectively abandoned any effort at local, regional, and even some state politics some while ago.
If you want to learn more about being a blue voter in a red state, and how they're working to change things, I *strongly* recommend following @jesspiper and @michelehornish.
And while I have a lifetime of familiarity with the impulse to simply curse the red voters to oblivion en masse, even they are still human beings. I refuse to be like MAGA and reduce them in my thoughts to a simple mass of unworthy others.
Been in Mi which has been a blue state for years. Seeing it as red or "purple" now, it disgusts even me. But I also see the folks that come to the protests and I hear others rage and grief with what is happening . And I empathize with their loneliness... feeling like they are the only ones who feel so heavy oflver the state of things.
Truthfully this is a lonely world right now. We don't recognize a state we live anymore, or the people who live in it. Trust and believe we feel like our state betrayed us.
I have literally started fucking profiling, which I despise. But if I see you in a beat to shit pick up, and especially if there's an American flag on it, you are pretty much automatically a piece of shit racist and I do not like you. It's sick that I have gotten to that level but it's the truth.
Yes, I word vomited all this just to say there are many of us. I am desperate for a community of like-minded people, more than the one I have thus far.
As someone put it the other day, blobs of blue in a sea of red...
or something along those lines.
Please don't kick us to the curb or leave us out of this fight because we are ready.
The decision by SCOTUS in the Citizens United ruling of 2010 along with the gerrymandering of districts within many states have brought us to where we are today = elections bought and paid for by those whose interests don't represent the people. Here in Montana unlimited spending by corporations and outside wealthy sources=SUPERPACS have negatively devastatingly impacted our politics and our state. Koch Bros and others like them, currently own the state in their lobbying for deregulation, fossil fuel/corporate tax incentives, as well as the sales of public lands to give the ultra-wealthy more privately owned playgrounds and resorts for themselves.
Our MAGA Montana Governor along with his MAGA Attorney General begun implementation of many parts of the agenda early on after each of their first elections. Both believe Montana is a commodity to be sold as a playground for the ultra-wealthy. Our governor does across the country advertising touting his MT tax advantage(s) to businesses interested in relocating. These are not typically businesses that need or provide significant job growth to the communities they relocate to. The governor, in his first term, outsourced many MT agency jobs that had been held by local professionals and replaced/contracted them with inexperienced out of state friends. He, along with our current elected members of congress, all Republican, have villainized all government $$ that funds programs that benefit varied income earners. The governor has cut people, many of them children, off of Medicaid and recently vetoed a bill that provides school lunches to children who are low income. Our state Attorney General dedicates himself entirely to the whims of DJT and our governor.
This is on those who voted for these folks. At what point do you come to terms with the fact that Montana is no longer affordable, or considered a friendly welcoming state, and a lot of taxpayer $$ is wasted by the governor and the AG on fighting to take away both our personal and state rights. I sincerely hope MT citizens do some deep dive honest research into all future candidates running for office then vote smart. Also, character and integrity should "always" be on the ballot.
No child deserved to be drowned because her parents may have voted for Trump.
Excellent advice! Those scary RED maps don't serve us well at all. And lifetime GOP voters in your area might be having second thoughts as this administration gets more and more un-American. Walk the talk of love your neighbor, and open the tent to fit in those who've been made homeless - figuratively and literally.
Amen to that!
I have lived in red states with coastal regions most of my life. There are plenty of blue voters in each state, but they face an uphill battle *every single election* thanks to gerrymandering and voter suppression. It's made harder by the fact that the DNC effectively abandoned any effort at local, regional, and even some state politics some while ago.
If you want to learn more about being a blue voter in a red state, and how they're working to change things, I *strongly* recommend following @jesspiper and @michelehornish.
And while I have a lifetime of familiarity with the impulse to simply curse the red voters to oblivion en masse, even they are still human beings. I refuse to be like MAGA and reduce them in my thoughts to a simple mass of unworthy others.
Been in Mi which has been a blue state for years. Seeing it as red or "purple" now, it disgusts even me. But I also see the folks that come to the protests and I hear others rage and grief with what is happening . And I empathize with their loneliness... feeling like they are the only ones who feel so heavy oflver the state of things.
Truthfully this is a lonely world right now. We don't recognize a state we live anymore, or the people who live in it. Trust and believe we feel like our state betrayed us.
I have literally started fucking profiling, which I despise. But if I see you in a beat to shit pick up, and especially if there's an American flag on it, you are pretty much automatically a piece of shit racist and I do not like you. It's sick that I have gotten to that level but it's the truth.
Yes, I word vomited all this just to say there are many of us. I am desperate for a community of like-minded people, more than the one I have thus far.
As someone put it the other day, blobs of blue in a sea of red...
or something along those lines.
Please don't kick us to the curb or leave us out of this fight because we are ready.
The decision by SCOTUS in the Citizens United ruling of 2010 along with the gerrymandering of districts within many states have brought us to where we are today = elections bought and paid for by those whose interests don't represent the people. Here in Montana unlimited spending by corporations and outside wealthy sources=SUPERPACS have negatively devastatingly impacted our politics and our state. Koch Bros and others like them, currently own the state in their lobbying for deregulation, fossil fuel/corporate tax incentives, as well as the sales of public lands to give the ultra-wealthy more privately owned playgrounds and resorts for themselves.
Our MAGA Montana Governor along with his MAGA Attorney General begun implementation of many parts of the agenda early on after each of their first elections. Both believe Montana is a commodity to be sold as a playground for the ultra-wealthy. Our governor does across the country advertising touting his MT tax advantage(s) to businesses interested in relocating. These are not typically businesses that need or provide significant job growth to the communities they relocate to. The governor, in his first term, outsourced many MT agency jobs that had been held by local professionals and replaced/contracted them with inexperienced out of state friends. He, along with our current elected members of congress, all Republican, have villainized all government $$ that funds programs that benefit varied income earners. The governor has cut people, many of them children, off of Medicaid and recently vetoed a bill that provides school lunches to children who are low income. Our state Attorney General dedicates himself entirely to the whims of DJT and our governor.
This is on those who voted for these folks. At what point do you come to terms with the fact that Montana is no longer affordable, or considered a friendly welcoming state, and a lot of taxpayer $$ is wasted by the governor and the AG on fighting to take away both our personal and state rights. I sincerely hope MT citizens do some deep dive honest research into all future candidates running for office then vote smart. Also, character and integrity should "always" be on the ballot.