Why Aren't Bernie Sanders and Other So-Called Working Class Progressives In Kansas?

[Bettie]

9. This is it

Churches preach Republicanism from the pulpit.

They are overtly political these days and no one says a single word.

A lot of them are overtly racist too, at least the white churches I've been subjected to.

I go back to my union member, feminist grandmother, who I am glad did not live to see the travesty of the shitgibbon being installed.

She told me more than once as I was growing up that it is very easy to be very religious and a Republican for the same reason: someone tells you what you believe, so you don't have to figure it out for yourself.

My very religious republican uncle and father hated this, but it is true.

You don't have to think about anything if you are one of those two things, you just do as you're told.

We don't need to win over rural white voters, we need to reach the larger number (of all colors) who don't vote, to make them see that voting is not a right, it is a responsibility.