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Agree with John. These women are inspiring. On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 9:24 AM John Reimann via Marxism < [email protected]> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > This is one of the best pieces of journalism I've read in a long, long > time. These two Southern, white middle class women share their lives and > their struggles. It shows something about what's happening in the US that > all the Gallup and Quinnipiac polls and sociological surveys cannot. I urge > people to read it. > > 'It is white women in the Deep South who have remained the loyalists, the > research showed, giving Trump 64 percent of their vote in 2016, a figure > that did not include Miranda Murphey, who had first started reevaluating > her politics after the election of Barack Obama, even though she had voted > Republican. > > “It was all the comments I kept hearing, like, ‘Change the channel, I don’t > want to see that black face,’ ” she said. “It was always that he was black, > not that he was liberal, not that there was a problem with some policy. I > always thought being a Republican meant supporting the military and lower > taxes, not being racist and ignorant.” > > Then came Trump, who Miranda found so morally repugnant that for the first > time in her voting life she wrote in the name of the Libertarian Party > candidate and went to bed expecting that good and decent conservatives > would do the same. She woke up realizing she was wrong. Church members had > voted for Trump. Her parents had gone for Trump. Phillip: Trump....' > > And then came Liz, a new English teacher in her district who was outspoken > and had a sticker on her cellphone with an image of Justice Ruth Bader > Ginsburg and the word “Dissent.” She was not like anyone Miranda had met > before, a Republican who’d become a Democrat and who described her > Trump-era self as a “full-on rage machine.” > > > https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/02/29/mirandas-rebellion/?arc404=true > -- > *“In politics, abstract terms conceal treachery.” *from "The Black > Jacobins" by C. L. R. James > Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com also on Facebook > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/acpollack2%40gmail.com _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
