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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷3/16/2017 11:32:54 pm PDT

re: #196 JordanRules

One hope I have is that some really amazing people rise to the challenge facing our nation and are able to make authentic connections with some of the groups most likely to be hurt by this Admin and also most likely to have enabled (and voted for) it.

Vets, Coal Country folks, Law Enforcement, Union peeps, Religious people and Rural populations, for example. There is an opportunity and moral messenger vacuum there.

But make no mistake, this wave cannot ignore racism, sexism and other civil rights issues or we’re just buying one election and not a true future. The message has to be tough, true and grown up! It cannot dismiss me, history, and what truly makes America great!

I agree entirely. Civil rights, racism, sexism and other such issues are not negotiable. Those issues are core principles of what it is to be a liberal.

It’s been noticed in my town that over the last few years fewer coal trains come east through town. (Wyoming is coal country as well.) Given the opportunity, I have explained what’s really killing coal (technology has rendered it obsolete as a fuel source at any price). It is not foreigners taking jobs or other such nonsense.

The inevitable question comes along “well, what to do about it?” The answer would be to elect politicians that want to promote new technologies.

The problem is getting the question in the first place. (That would apply to any of the issues you brought up as well.) Others have pulled themselves out of extremist hatred and changed (Shirley Roper-Phelps comes to mind), but they have to be interested first (and she had a lot less to work with in her insular world at Westboro Baptist).

The refugee issue is particularly interesting here. Nebraska is very conservative, yet per capita it has the highest number of refugees from other nations. (Lots of room here.) The state government put up some argument over the original quest to ban Syrian refugees under President Obama but got pushed into dropping that argument by the people who live here.

It isn’t a hopeless fight, but it will take a long time to change minds. Propaganda’s a helluva drug and the GOP has been at it for my whole life. It can’t be overturned until someone tries though.