Come to think of it, this kind of thinking can come in handy if we're doing any organizing out in rural America, assuming one is not rural.
As a leftist growing up in the middle of nowhere in a red state, I'll admit that I almost felt ashamed of being...a rural American and I stopped doing the shit that I really liked growing up doing. I don't dislike the US because I have a strange aversion to cowboys and peach cobblers, I just want the US to stop blowing up brown kids with my healthcare money and to be nicer to the rainbow people and women. No matter what the Bible says. I tend to get along with people better if I just embrace what I do growing up instead of trying to LARP as a Californian as I did growing up.
Come to think of it, this kind of thinking can come in handy if we're doing any organizing out in rural America, assuming one is not rural.
As a leftist growing up in the middle of nowhere in a red state, I'll admit that I almost felt ashamed of being...a rural American and I stopped doing the shit that I really liked growing up doing. I don't dislike the US because I have a strange aversion to cowboys and peach cobblers, I just want the US to stop blowing up brown kids with my healthcare money and to be nicer to the rainbow people and women. No matter what the Bible says. I tend to get along with people better if I just embrace what I do growing up instead of trying to LARP as a Californian as I did growing up.