I'm one of the lucky ones that live in Minnesota where there are some bright spots and I'm grateful every day. The rest of it makes my heart hurt and my head ache something ferocious.
Yay, Minnesota! \o/ Ahh, how I miss walking around the city lakes in the summer and pigging out at the dairy barn at the Minnesota State Fair. Never change.
I've been following ontd_political and the recent NC news have made me wonder how you're faring there. I guess this pretty much answers the question. :/ I can see why you need to vent - I'd probably suffer constant rant-related burst blood vessels because of this malarkey if I lived there.
The funny thing is that I live in a town surrounded by other towns that are very progressive (our mayor is gay and it's not a "thing"). We're essentially a island of blue in a state of mostly red. So while the local/regional majority overwhelmingly support the democratic agenda, the majority of the state doesn't. And it's hard to connect the local/regional reality to the reality of the rest of the state. That disconnect, I think, lulls us me into a false sense of security, thinking that most people are more politically similar to me than not. The saying "birds of a feather flock together" holds very true to my social group (at least we can all be enraged and banging on our pots together)
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The only other person I know to use that word is my dad. When I read that I thought, "Awww, Dad." :D
(The US version of red/blue always manages to confuse me for a second before I remember that the colors are actually the other way around here: blue=our version of repubs, red=our democratic party.) Yeah, people in the same social group tend to have the same kind of views of things and I'd think that in the academic circles that's even more accurate.
The only other person I know to use that word is my dad.
Well, I blame Joe Biden for teaching me that word. :) With the whole lurking at ontd_p and following the 2012 US presidential election and Biden's "With all due respect, that's a bunch of malarkey", I figured that I should start using that word. So, y'know, that might explain everything. :D
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Hee, your tags for this post are awesome. :)
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The funny thing is that I live in a town surrounded by other towns that are very progressive (our mayor is gay and it's not a "thing"). We're essentially a island of blue in a state of mostly red. So while the local/regional majority overwhelmingly support the democratic agenda, the majority of the state doesn't. And it's hard to connect the local/regional reality to the reality of the rest of the state. That disconnect, I think, lulls us me into a false sense of security, thinking that most people are more politically similar to me than not. The saying "birds of a feather flock together" holds very true to my social group (at least we can all be enraged and banging on our pots together)
malarkey
The only other person I know to use that word is my dad. When I read that I thought, "Awww, Dad." :D
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The only other person I know to use that word is my dad.
Well, I blame Joe Biden for teaching me that word. :) With the whole lurking at ontd_p and following the 2012 US presidential election and Biden's "With all due respect, that's a bunch of malarkey", I figured that I should start using that word. So, y'know, that might explain everything. :D
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