There’s a notion, fueled by some careless rhetoric from blue state types, that we don’t care about helping protect the oppressed in red states. As I reflect on that in this moment, we really weren’t. Absolutely not. The very fact we were trying to make sure the federal government was blue on top was specifically an effort to protect your rights. It helps us as well, but it helped you a lot more – because that federal power was necessary to impose your rights on hateful state governments that argued prejudice is a state’s right.
State’s rights is the cry of those who do not have as much political power as they’d prefer, for their faction. I find myself singing it from the rafters now, and that is, low key, an abandonment of you now. Sorry about that. I do hope that whatever rights we manage to protect in blue states, we can use those to help red state refugees when they need it. I know Canada doesn’t want you. They are absolute shits about USians trying to move north. Not sure if Mexico would take US refugees, but I can think of some big reasons why they wouldn’t.
Point is, we weren’t abandoning you, back in the halcyon days of anytime before now. But it might look more like we are now, as we scramble to secure our states’ rights to protect human rights from the fascist death machine. I hope you won’t look poorly upon us for that, and I hope it benefits you as well, in some way, some day.
I’m too tired to find a better place to end this post. May these motherfuckers devour themselves and vanish from the Earth in a puff of smoke. May we all live to see a better tomorrow.
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