re: #81 Decatur Deb

Don’t expect the party to value you for more than your vote (and your energy). it’s a political party, not a theology. Since FDR the Dems are a fragile herd of perfectly valid interest groups all tending in the same general direction. The RW bastards know the Dem vulnerabilities and have successfully exploited them several times in a generation. I don’t consider myself married to the Democratic Party—I just vote for them every freakn’ time and increasingly donate and work for them. The party is a corrupt, shaky wall but it is the only thing standing between us and Bull Connor. Don’t break it.

(Went to grad school in Lexington in the early ’70s. It was a pretty cool town smothered in money. Of course all little college towns are Shangri-La.)

So True.

And Lexington is just as beautiful as ever. I don’t know if I could ever leave. Been here all 35 of my years. And in particular, as a Black Man, I don’t know if there could be as good a place to come of age in, regarding dealing with police.