This was posted halfway down the comment section of a “Why We Grieve” article. I think a lot of young, liberal-leaning folks would agree with it, but I’d never seen anyone actually SAY it out loud. (And it’s as problematic as all the horrible, racist, offensive stuff being said and done by the right. IMO)
You think territory is America?? America is people, and Hillary won the popular vote. Don’t fool yourself into thinking “America” elected Trump. Scared, middle-class, middle-aged white people from the country who only think about themselves (no good samaritans in that crowd) elected Trump. You are the past of this nation, we, the young, the urban, the allies, the queers, the colored, the immigrants, the educated, the progressive, the environmentalists and scientists and artists and intellectuals and engineers, WE are the future. This is not your country. It’s OUR country. Learn to act like loving human beings and we’re happy to have you along. Otherwise enjoy your last hurrah, and then get out of our way, because we are so over your small town backwards-thinking crap.
This article. THIS is what I spent 7 years trying to teach in my composition classes. About how listening is fundamental to good arguing. And the power of language. And logical fallacies. And why, honestly, too many times the “Christian” view is dismissed out of hand.
And why I love Mike Rowe.
