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In reply to the discussion: Lots of misunderstanding around here about what Michael Moore is doing. [View all]deancr
(150 posts)I have lived in Michigan my entire life. Yours is accurate and honest appraisal. I've lived in northern rural Michigan for 30 plus years working labor jobs, never management or professional. I get these folks who voted for Trump. It was surely, largely racism, but also desperation fueled by decades of hate propaganda that caused the Trump vote. Not an excuse, but an explanation.
My wife and I have been lucky in that we never had crushing economic misfortune and have a shot at dignified retirement. It was not always so and we spent too long seeing through the eyes of poverty. That desperation has spread broadly in these decades since Reagan started the dismantling of the middle-class.
We have enemies aplenty. Michael Moore is not among them.
Michael Moore has done a great deal to lead by example here in the Traverse City area. I have had the pleasure of seeing his impact on local politics through his "walking the walk" by quietly, selflessly building community here. None of that gets national press, but it has helped modify this area. An area that has been republican since the civil war.
That is to say, you get it. And thank you.