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keep_left's JournalOK, this is really petty, but does Lauren Boebert not know to clean her fireplace glass...
...before she goes on TV?! (See clip starting at 1:11). Even those gas fireplaces get really dirty. Hers looks like a fire hazard!
Yes, I know, there are a lot more important things to discuss, I just couldn't help myself... 
Basically, what changed was Protestant-Catholic "co-belligerence", at least among...
...the conservative churches. The left could learn a lot from their cooperation in the creation of a successful movement. (Eventually, resentments developed among them because the Protestants would not let the Catholics rise to leadership positions in the "pro-life" groups. The Catholics ended up decamping to their own organizations).
https://msmagazine.com/2022/05/19/abortion-catholic-church-opus-dei-evangelical-christianity-religion-roe-v-wade/
Jesse Watters is plagiarizing MRA/PUA shit. This is the kind of garbage RooshV et al...
...would push all over the internet before they got deplatformed. Watters is just stealing the lingo of the basement-dwelling incels who whine about how "women only vote for socialism" and "we need to repeal the 19th Amendment". The only difference is that he floated the not-too-bright idea of raising the voting age (which will not be popular with the incels, but will be with the geriatric Fox audience).
These losers really believe that if we just revoke universal suffrage and somehow "enforce monogamy" (which was seriously suggested by Jordan Peterson) that we can bring back the '50s.
There are some subdivisions of the longer generations (like the Boomers). I believe that...
...the tail end (youngest) Boomers are sometimes called "Generation Jones". They trend more conservative and acquisitive, having grown up under stagflation and 1970s disillusionment. They also came of age after the country ended the draft and changed to a professional volunteer military.
All of this is to say, however, that these generational categories are not always that helpful and tend to lead to more division. I remember when the Boomers were ripping the Xers as "slackers" and "losers" (hell, "Loser" is Beck's biggest hit, and Slacker was an early-90s movie--I'm really dating myself). Now I see Xers on the job attacking Millenials and Zoomers in the same way.
Yes, that's the one. I remember hearing Mr. Wilayto on a local community radio station as well...
...as on Democracy Now! The report also covers the disastrous school voucher experiment that the Bradley Foundation helped create. It's worth a read, especially if you're into historical documents. I'm sure there are many more extant copies than the five you found, but they are undoubtedly in private libraries that aren't interested in lending them out.
There is a really good report (from the late '90s I believe) that explains the historical...
...antecedents of the Scott Walker phenomenon. It's called The Feeding Trough, and it shows how several well-funded "think" tanks and right-wing foundations helped turn Wisconsin into, as you say, "a laboratory for democracy-breaking". I forget who published it, but it's worth a read if you can find a copy (an interlibrary loan may be able to help).
Yeah, I forgot about that. I'm mostly familiar with the counties of western WI...
...on the MN border. You see lots of chud signs on farmland driving through western WI, most of them hand-painted. Lots of Bircher rhetoric on those signs, too--not to mention endless "Prolife Across America" billboards, etc. I haven't traveled to northern WI for a long time. The divide does seem to be rural-urban to a large degree. You would think that wealthy suburbs would be really conservative, and some are, but the suburbs are often pretty diverse places, particularly the first-ring suburban areas.
A union organizer once explained to me that the reason that so many of the counties and cities along the Great Lakes are still reliably Democratic is due to the original immigrants to those areas (Finns, Eastern Europeans, etc.). While most of those people have long since died off, they made sure to instill a historical memory in the younger generations of the labor struggles that were won in earlier times. And there are still a lot of their descendants living today who remember the old stories. It does go some way toward explaining how places like northeast MN still vote Democratic when most of the other rural areas of MN are bright red.
Not much doubt about that. And it will continue and intensify...
...in this election. But western WI is really in a problematic situation: even Democratic politicians have to be hard-right in order to be successful there, and then they're just seen as imitators, so why vote for them? It's difficult to get elected as a Democrat in western WI, to say the least. Also, while gerrymandering may be an issue, Ron Johnson is in the Senate, so that position can't be gamed that way.
Lots of chud areas, that's what. Same as most states...
...especially those in the northern plains like WI and MN. But just about every state has several bright red areas. Western WI is the problem here; it's largely rural farm country and very conservative. Western MA is in a similar situation, by the way. Unfortunately, most states are purple overall, not blue or red. That's with the exception of OK, which last I checked didn't have a single blue county.
Well, you're certainly right about the hierarchy. I should have mentioned...
...that I was speaking mostly about the laity in the Church. However, there definitely were clergy (even at high levels) who opposed US adventurism in Central America, but they were few and far between. They also tended to get in hot water with their superiors who were almost always reactionaries.
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