It's a broad statement, but when I saw that about obviously not living in the south. I got out, but guys... it's bleak down there...
We want change, we have got to get the neo-confederacy out. The biggest church is still the Catholics which they've swayed to the Republicans side with single issue of abortion, but the US is mostly protestant and the biggest protestant church is the southern baptist church. The church that literally was formed during the Civil War so they could continue to say slavery wasn't a sin. And it is the kudzu of religion down there.
Seriously... if you live in an area where a nuanced view is possible, good for you. And I can understand trying to lower the temperature... but if you have people that are in the left side of Christianity... there needs to be some serious outreach work to try to bring some sanity to the evangelicals to the country.
I read it somewhere that anyone talking rule of law or the Constitution anymore is starting to sound like sovereign citizens, waving a document around like it's a magic shield that in reality does absolutely nothing.
I would like to disagree with this thought process, but I can't.
I've always spoke out about corporations. I hate big corps. I have always wanted to get big corps out of running farms.
Fuck it! Hey Tyson, hurry up and buy up every fucking meat farm out there. Bill Gates, buy up whatever is left! Make these fuckers that inherited their pappa's farms have to work the land after selling it. I don't fucking care about them anymore.
I live in a red state. My jobs are me the rare left in the entire crowd. I have to learn how to talk, chat, joke with these people. And last Trump administration I kept talking with them. Things I learned. Since I wasn't willing to immediately extol the good of Trump, I must be against him (not even talking politics, just me keeping my mouth shut.) That they're against many of the things on helping people.
But hell, years of working with one crew, I was getting them over, realizing that the wealthy were fucking us over, that the insurance that was fucking everyone over was why we needed better. That many of the "sullied" republicans were against it. Hell I think one thing that got them listening was they said something good about Biden, I couldn't keep my mouth shut and made a snark about Trump and when I was told "I said something good about your guy" I outright tore into them to never say that Biden was "my guy", I may look at lesser of evils but it wasn't some fucking football game.
But I saw chances... I saw hope that maybe... maybe they could learn. But the second Trump started running again, it was the same parroted stuff, even from a soybean ventures guy who was watching to see if his prices would ever go back up because he was losing money on it.
So no... I don't trust them. I think there are some who need to be out there to welcome the people when they're willing to join sides, yes... but there also needs to be those to remind that these are not friends, and they are very likely to stab us in the back unless they actually show that they're willing to put the work in to make change.
Andrew Johnson. The guy kneecapped Reconstruction, basically was a friend of the confederates and didn't finish cutting out a rot that would destroy the nation a century later.
I don't disagree with that, but more to the point I was putting is there's going to be a fast refugee crisis for the blue states for those of us that see the writing on the wall if the states fracture.
I'll be honest... I HOPE I'm wrong... god I fucking hope I am... but I'm not seeing a "United States" being the case much longer after this administration. Partly being one living in this area... I do not see how we come back... there is no middle ground left.
Look... I'm more on board with this than not... but at this point betting on this administration to cook the goose that lays the golden eggs is the best bet. Sure... a goose dinner is nice, but in the process legit destroys what made the goose amazing in the process.
I mean... I'm not going to argue the fall of the US isn't stupider than the fall of Rome...
But I will argue the fall of the US started back when Reconstruction was stopped. Just took a while for the confederates to win.