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(2,962 posts)And I had to get over a good part of the raising. Many didn't get over it. It amazes me how these right wingers, some as poor as dirt, vote against their own interests year after year after year. They vote against their own interests and mine and the interests of human beings everywhere. I know it's mostly about fundamentalist religion and abortion. They're fully ready to see a child, especially a black child, starve, but they raise hell about a bunch of undifferentiated cells being aborted. There's a huge billboard on the road I take to town, railing about life beginning at conception and, of course, against abortion at any point, for any reason. Every time I see it, I want to burn it down.
I really wish sometimes that I could move to Vermont.
If someone's going to bash the stupidity of SC and its elected officials, I'd probably be right there beside you with my own club. It does give me a pang, however, when someone wants to kick the South out of the Union. I mean y'all fought a war, a really bloody war, to bring us back into the fold. At least that was one reason. Abraham Lincoln fought to preserve the union and I don't think he'd much agree about anyone talking about dividing us again. We're brothers and sisters after all.
So, this is rambling. Not your post, Julie. Thanks for your post. It's a really reasonable post and I really appreciate it. I also think we need more unity and less division as Democrats and Progressives. Though, I do, I truly do understand the frustration behind the South bashing posts. I've felt that frustration.