Earl Warren said that the most important decisions during his tenure didn't involve Brown v. Board, but actually were the reapportionment cases. And that's really what republicans are fighting, and where we have the red/blue divide. Where I live in Nevada, Clark County (Las Vegas and environs) is blue, but with red. Washoe County (Reno a…
Earl Warren said that the most important decisions during his tenure didn't involve Brown v. Board, but actually were the reapportionment cases. And that's really what republicans are fighting, and where we have the red/blue divide. Where I live in Nevada, Clark County (Las Vegas and environs) is blue, but with red. Washoe County (Reno and environs) is bluish but with ample red. The 14 rural counties are redder than a bleeding beet, and have maybe 7% of the state's population. But yesterday The New York Times posted one of those stories that reminds us that it can be a great newspaper, about a rural Nevada county clerk who is the subject of a recall effort because republicans there are convinced that she put her thumb on the scale against Pol Potbelly ... who won the county with something like 82% of the vote. And the people signing are "friends."
That brings me to a friend who said we should never let politics get in the way of friendship. What too few grasp is that you cannot be friends with a loyal republican. That person is incapable of loyalty to this country, and incapable of loyalty to an individual. I can like them, and I do. I can think they're fun to be around, and I do. But a friend? No. If they get back in in 2025 and their Gestapo comes, that supposed friend won't hide you or help you.
Sadly, I agree. For me, it's a matter of completely different values. I'll give the shirt off my back and they most likely would steal a shirt off the back of a homeless person.
I agree. And it was during COVID that I realized that my empathy had limits. I felt badly for people I knew who got COVID, including one who died. But one of them who almost died got it when he made what he admits was the mistake of exposing himself. And what happened was that he and his family had gone somewhere, and were about to eat. They took off their masks, and a group of MAGA hats surrounded them yelling at them about being woke, and it's all a fraud, etc. And my friends all wound up in the hospital.
Now, there are people who would think those actions were wrong, but they will still vote for republicans. And at the risk of referring to a terrible old trope, they deserve whatever bad things happen to them, and they are asking for it to happen to them.
I also live in Las Vegas and had my first and last confrontation with a die-hard Republican at my doctor’s office on Monday. If I didn’t already believe Republicans were unhinged and dangerous, I do now. I've seen the face of evil up close and personal, and I see no path to reconciliation in this fractured nation.
Earl Warren said that the most important decisions during his tenure didn't involve Brown v. Board, but actually were the reapportionment cases. And that's really what republicans are fighting, and where we have the red/blue divide. Where I live in Nevada, Clark County (Las Vegas and environs) is blue, but with red. Washoe County (Reno and environs) is bluish but with ample red. The 14 rural counties are redder than a bleeding beet, and have maybe 7% of the state's population. But yesterday The New York Times posted one of those stories that reminds us that it can be a great newspaper, about a rural Nevada county clerk who is the subject of a recall effort because republicans there are convinced that she put her thumb on the scale against Pol Potbelly ... who won the county with something like 82% of the vote. And the people signing are "friends."
That brings me to a friend who said we should never let politics get in the way of friendship. What too few grasp is that you cannot be friends with a loyal republican. That person is incapable of loyalty to this country, and incapable of loyalty to an individual. I can like them, and I do. I can think they're fun to be around, and I do. But a friend? No. If they get back in in 2025 and their Gestapo comes, that supposed friend won't hide you or help you.
Sadly, I agree. For me, it's a matter of completely different values. I'll give the shirt off my back and they most likely would steal a shirt off the back of a homeless person.
I agree. And it was during COVID that I realized that my empathy had limits. I felt badly for people I knew who got COVID, including one who died. But one of them who almost died got it when he made what he admits was the mistake of exposing himself. And what happened was that he and his family had gone somewhere, and were about to eat. They took off their masks, and a group of MAGA hats surrounded them yelling at them about being woke, and it's all a fraud, etc. And my friends all wound up in the hospital.
Now, there are people who would think those actions were wrong, but they will still vote for republicans. And at the risk of referring to a terrible old trope, they deserve whatever bad things happen to them, and they are asking for it to happen to them.
And to us.
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I also live in Las Vegas and had my first and last confrontation with a die-hard Republican at my doctor’s office on Monday. If I didn’t already believe Republicans were unhinged and dangerous, I do now. I've seen the face of evil up close and personal, and I see no path to reconciliation in this fractured nation.
Not fit for a poetic diescription, sadly, tragically.
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