re: #233 allegro

I did read it. Compromise with fear. Just doesn’t make sense. You give up some of your fear and I will give up… what? Something that makes you fearful? What would that be? What are those rural voters afraid of? Minorities is one thing. Where is the compromise that will make them less fearful that is at all acceptable? Who do we toss under the bus to make them less fearful? As if that is even possible. That is but one example. I can’t think of any that make any more sense.

He addressed that too. Perhaps it’s Mr. Wright’s writing style … not everyone understood his position on this. Maybe like Rachel Maddow, he gets too deep in the subject and loses some readers:

You know, it’s funny. I came from the Heartland, the Midwest. I spent my life in the ultimate bastion of conservatism, the military. I lived in Alaska, the reddest of the Red States. I live now in the Panhandle of Florida among conservatives. I talk to these people. I eat with these people. I drink with these people. I’m related to these people. Those things up above? Many reasonable conservatives don’t really give a damn about those things. Not really. They want the same things you do, peace, security, safety, good paying jobs, decent schools and decent neighbors, bridges that don’t fall down, clean water, clean air, safe food, affordable healthcare, respect, pride, and it’s likely that we, left and right, have more in common than we don’t.

Look out there. What do you see?

Republican politicians can’t even talk to their own people.

Republican politicians are afraid, terrified, to face their own people in a town hall.

Doesn’t that suggest to you an opportunity?