Jim is right on! Here in my city of Bristol where I once served on the city council we have seen the tide shift dramatically to the dark side. Recently some of our neighborhoods were littered with white supremacist recruitment leaflets that our mayor referred to as a "literature drop." He has yet to issue a strong condemnation of this terrorist group! Yesterday we saw the video of a U.S. Senate candidate in Susan's home state doing a home invasion with a SWAT team "hunting RINO's"! After reading Susan's daily column I then go to Heather Cox Richardson's where today she hit on the same theme, see attached.https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-20-2022?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share
Daily I thank my lucky stars that I left Texas as soon as I could. At the same time I wonder, if I had stayed or returned after college, whether my presence could have held my fractured little family together. Usually I return to being thankful. I can only hope that Texas voters will overwhelmingly turn against this hateful platform, but do they even know about it? Will the TX corporate media outlets publicize it in its totality? I wonder.
I'm pretty sure my presence in my own fractured family in Missouri would have made it fracture sooner, and perhaps more publicly. My money is on media such as the Texas Monthly, stomping grounds of the late, great Molly Ivins.
And Beto and every Democrat running for state-wide office this year will surely hammer on the TX GOP platform. And, yeah, I probably would not have been a unifying force in my family.
Ever since W ran and the right wing grew in size and power, the Republicans have used fear and hate. It’s only gotten worse. Living in Glastonbury, a town I considered progressive but has many Republicans, it’s only gotten worse. The growing concern about books in the schools, school mascots, etc. is disconcerting.
Jim is right on! Here in my city of Bristol where I once served on the city council we have seen the tide shift dramatically to the dark side. Recently some of our neighborhoods were littered with white supremacist recruitment leaflets that our mayor referred to as a "literature drop." He has yet to issue a strong condemnation of this terrorist group! Yesterday we saw the video of a U.S. Senate candidate in Susan's home state doing a home invasion with a SWAT team "hunting RINO's"! After reading Susan's daily column I then go to Heather Cox Richardson's where today she hit on the same theme, see attached.https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-20-2022?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share
Oh, perfect. Thank you, Rich. And can I just say here that Eric Greitens is the moral runt of the litter.
In all fairness, Greitens has a boatload of competition.
But Greitens is one of mine, and so he can look forward to a special kind of attention.
spent the last 2 hours calling Spanish speaking voters in PA- it has begun
You are awesome.
Working on it.
Daily I thank my lucky stars that I left Texas as soon as I could. At the same time I wonder, if I had stayed or returned after college, whether my presence could have held my fractured little family together. Usually I return to being thankful. I can only hope that Texas voters will overwhelmingly turn against this hateful platform, but do they even know about it? Will the TX corporate media outlets publicize it in its totality? I wonder.
I'm pretty sure my presence in my own fractured family in Missouri would have made it fracture sooner, and perhaps more publicly. My money is on media such as the Texas Monthly, stomping grounds of the late, great Molly Ivins.
And Beto and every Democrat running for state-wide office this year will surely hammer on the TX GOP platform. And, yeah, I probably would not have been a unifying force in my family.
Ever since W ran and the right wing grew in size and power, the Republicans have used fear and hate. It’s only gotten worse. Living in Glastonbury, a town I considered progressive but has many Republicans, it’s only gotten worse. The growing concern about books in the schools, school mascots, etc. is disconcerting.
I think some of this started with affable old Reagan. The divisiveness, the us v. them. But yeah. It IS disconcerting.
Reagan’s Neshoba County Fair “States Rights” speech was maybe the single most damaging dog whistle ever blown in the country.
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/13/opinion/13herbert.html
Remember his goddamn "welfare queen" lying trope?
Yep. Before they used overt fear and hate, they used the patriarchal dismissive chuckle.
Yup, like a bee!!