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In reply to the discussion: I live in deep red rural Pa. [View all]Botany
(71,817 posts).... it* has been a hot spot of right wing hate for years. For me as a boy part of it was wonderful
the outdoors, the fishing, my neighborhood in Meadville with its kids, was great but it was also
home of John Birchers (QAnon now) and dumb fucks too. And the public school system sucked!
BTW Meadville PA produced one of the finest men you would ever meet. Gov. Ray Shafer. His brother
was the county D.A. and lived next door.
Some of the people might be convinced to vote blue but far to many of them are infected with a right
wing bile that death alone can cure. I was there as child before hate talk radio/tv/internet came along
I shudder to think what the mindset is there now.
BTW One of the reasons Trump lost Erie county was he showed up for a rally one damp and cold night
in Oct. and complained about the weather (gee, Don I could have told you that Erie Pa gets nasty in the
late fall/winter/early spring) and insulted the people standing in the weather to hear him.
Again be as nice as you can be, DO NOT TALK POLITICS OR HAVE SIGNS, and when you get a chance
GET OUT.
* As so has much of rural PA now.