Reply #50: Excellent post, truly! [View All]

[AliceWonderland]

Thank you for it. This one state-two state-red state-blue state business is getting increasingly bizarre and counter-productive. I suppose it's because I find my current community (Boulder) more granola than NY, where I lived before...and many many more people voted for * in, say, PA than in my state. And the really funny bit is, I am waaaaaaay more radical than the Democrats in my personal views and convictions. So, I'm having a difficult time wrapping my mind around analysis that paints my home as a pariah. 'Cause I really like it here and to be honest, I don't know any fundies in my day-to-day life. I mean, apparently they're here, but I don't see them, so they're kind of like Bigfoot in my mind. I remember stopping in my tracks a few weeks ago because I actually saw a car with a B/C bumper sticker -- it was the first one I'd seen in town and it was completely out of place here. I turn on my radio and I get AAR and KGNU. I shop at the food co-op, I work at the leftist bookstore. Plus, Colorado is not a welfare state, but a giver state (more so than NY or CA). So as you say, I prefer to think in terms of individuals. *Anyone* who fights theocracy or fascism is on my team, no matter where they live.