a very nice place. Thankfully these days I am rather isolated living out on the farm now. I do interact but mostly it is with other musicians, actors and literary people and most of them, not all, agree with me 
Farmers I rarely engage in direct politics, most of them know how I think so we just talk around the issues. I stand by what I have always said, most farmers and ranchers are as socialist as I am but they do not know it and somehow can't think or don't think around it. Dissonance and heredity of party. Sure there are some issues they are definitely TB or RW on but as a whole just watch them as we suffer with the drought. Hay may very well be climbing astronomically in price but those around you will make certain your animals do not starve and never ask for return. My husband just had heart surgery but do you think my next load of 200 bales will be dealt with by me alone? I guarantee my hay guy will bring help at his expense and I will not even have to do much cause I would get in their way. We are as different as night and day in the way we think but the way we behave? I will pay him back someday but I would not have to, it is called being neighborly but what is that exactly? Republican Right Wing? Don't think so. It goes on forever around here, you don't even have to know someone for them to show up and help if they hear you are in need.
It is when I hit the statehouse or actually have to directly talk to others about issues I am supporting that I find myself so totally stunned at the stupid that goes right along with the hateful. It was never like that before. The nastiness with the Puerto Rican woman last night at the convention was nothing you would ever see here before but now it is common. You read it in the paper in the comments, you hear it on the radio, you hear it if you directly engage people and you hear it loud and clear from our state government.
We need to really think outside the box.
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