I’ll be cantankerous… yes.

I live in a red state. My jobs are me the rare left in the entire crowd. I have to learn how to talk, chat, joke with these people. And last Trump administration I kept talking with them. Things I learned. Since I wasn’t willing to immediately extol the good of Trump, I must be against him (not even talking politics, just me keeping my mouth shut.) That they’re against many of the things on helping people.

But hell, years of working with one crew, I was getting them over, realizing that the wealthy were fucking us over, that the insurance that was fucking everyone over was why we needed better. That many of the “sullied” republicans were against it. Hell I think one thing that got them listening was they said something good about Biden, I couldn’t keep my mouth shut and made a snark about Trump and when I was told “I said something good about your guy” I outright tore into them to never say that Biden was “my guy”, I may look at lesser of evils but it wasn’t some fucking football game.

But I saw chances… I saw hope that maybe… maybe they could learn. But the second Trump started running again, it was the same parroted stuff, even from a soybean ventures guy who was watching to see if his prices would ever go back up because he was losing money on it.

So no… I don’t trust them. I think there are some who need to be out there to welcome the people when they’re willing to join sides, yes… but there also needs to be those to remind that these are not friends, and they are very likely to stab us in the back unless they actually show that they’re willing to put the work in to make change.

Andrew Johnson. The guy kneecapped Reconstruction, basically was a friend of the confederates and didn’t finish cutting out a rot that would destroy the nation a century later.

Oh all his people he loves keeps having elections. They just run unopposed, and win no matter what.

He WANTS the elections… it’s a popularity contest, you think Trump would get rid of that?

Actual fair elections on the other hand…

I don’t disagree with that, but more to the point I was putting is there’s going to be a fast refugee crisis for the blue states for those of us that see the writing on the wall if the states fracture.

I’ll be honest… I HOPE I’m wrong… god I fucking hope I am… but I’m not seeing a “United States” being the case much longer after this administration. Partly being one living in this area… I do not see how we come back… there is no middle ground left.

The fact that it took a second administration to figure this out is absolutely baffling to me.

Fuck man, I’m in the middle of all that fucking bible belt out. you’ll have a lot of us trying to get the hell out.

Honestly, we still are now.