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Nov. 11th, 2004 08:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
charlottezwebWhile I understand that having the current president reelected is very upsetting for some people (I'm not thrilled with it myself), I'm a little tired of the some of the rhetoric I've been hearing since then.
Listen people, stop acting like all of america except for NY and CA is against us. Middle america is not only inhabited by folks who voted for Bush/hate gays/burn witches/are anti-abortion. Neither is the South. And CA and NY have a chunk of folks who do have those attitudes. Go look at the purple maps, go look at a county by county voting breakdown of any state. Even SC, which many people have been saying should've been let go a long time ago, was surprisingly evenly split.
This is a good thing. It means that there aren't huge sections of the country to avoid, that the edges of the country aren't the only places where "right-thinking" people live. It also means that it's time to stop with the name-calling, the stereotypes, and the divisive rants, and look at why your neighbor or your mother or your cab driver voted the way they did.
Right now the country is pretty evenly divided--we're not alone; we're barely a minority and as long as we don't just throw our hands up in disgust and walk away, we've got a good chance of becoming a majority.
Listen people, stop acting like all of america except for NY and CA is against us. Middle america is not only inhabited by folks who voted for Bush/hate gays/burn witches/are anti-abortion. Neither is the South. And CA and NY have a chunk of folks who do have those attitudes. Go look at the purple maps, go look at a county by county voting breakdown of any state. Even SC, which many people have been saying should've been let go a long time ago, was surprisingly evenly split.
This is a good thing. It means that there aren't huge sections of the country to avoid, that the edges of the country aren't the only places where "right-thinking" people live. It also means that it's time to stop with the name-calling, the stereotypes, and the divisive rants, and look at why your neighbor or your mother or your cab driver voted the way they did.
Right now the country is pretty evenly divided--we're not alone; we're barely a minority and as long as we don't just throw our hands up in disgust and walk away, we've got a good chance of becoming a majority.
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Date: 2004-11-11 06:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-11 06:57 am (UTC)but preach it, sister!