The Stranger's cover and related article stood out to me. That's how I've been feeling, but not how I want to feel. For all I seem to practice it, I really don't enjoy the us-vs-them mentality, and it rather saddens me that my country of birth is so divided. Romantic fuzzy-headedness of me, almost certainly.
Nor does isolationist urbanism fix the ideological problems with Red America. If we, in our nice little progressive cocoons, diverge further and further from life and society in the rest of the nation, but fail to secure a real majority, we will still ultimately have to put up with more Bushes for leaders
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Nor does isolationist urbanism fix the ideological problems with Red America. If we, in our nice little progressive cocoons, diverge further and further from life and society in the rest of the nation, but fail to secure a real majority, we will still ultimately have to put up with more Bushes for leaders