Much Like Conservatives, I Get Irrationally Angry And Scared When People Don’t Share My Traditions When I was younger, I had a weird annual ritual. I would keep a mental note of how many neighbors decorated their houses for Christmas, and kept that note ready to see if they did it next year. I rememberContinue reading “How Christmas Makes Me Understand Modern American Conservatism”
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The Urban-Rural Divide Is A Product Of Imagination And Misplaced Fear
Leftists Don’t Hate Or Look Down On Rural Americans, But The Right Is Happy To Exploit That Idea When I was growing up in Queens, my mom’s best friend had three nieces who were all close to my age. We all went to the same elementary school and we lived six blocks apart. We hungContinue reading “The Urban-Rural Divide Is A Product Of Imagination And Misplaced Fear”
Progressives Are At A Natural Electoral Disadvantage
It’s Not Easy To Convince Voters You Love A Country That You Want To Fundamentally Change Something struck me this week about the Republican National Convention. On the surface, it looks like a big old mess. They put forward figures like as prime time speakers like the McCloskeys, the St. Louis couple who pointed gunsContinue reading “Progressives Are At A Natural Electoral Disadvantage”
It’s Fine To Unfriend People Based On Who They Vote For
40,000 Americans Unnecessarily Died This Summer, I Don’t Care That Sally Baked You A Cake Once Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang swung into Twitter earlier this week to make a comment no one asked for. In the wake of someone (rationally) stating only Democrats would even considering enacting the agenda Yang ran on, aContinue reading “It’s Fine To Unfriend People Based On Who They Vote For”
If You Can, Vote In Person In November. It’s Important
Don’t Give Donald Trump Any Reason Play Games With The Election Results; He Will The global COVID-19 pandemic has upended our everyday lives, kept us staying at or close to home and avoiding public places as much as we can. It also hit right smack in the middle of the biggest campaign season; primary electionsContinue reading “If You Can, Vote In Person In November. It’s Important”
Nick Rafter Writes 