It does make me feel a little better that Dems, Progressives, and the Resistance all showed up at the polls on Tuesday. A small bright point in the past year of Trump darkness. (I have a feeling that I’m not so much preaching to the choir, but more like preaching to other preachers.) It was a good showing, and hopefully it will encourage the rest of the country to turn out in 2018.
That to me is the thing. What will the turnout be in a year? Like I mentioned before, a college classmate of mine is running for the House as a Democrat in Texas. With the showing in Virginia, especially in the suburbs and ex-urbs in Northern Virginia, middle class college educated people came out to vote against Trump. The person I know who is running is smack dab in the middle of a suburb district, and if the same momentum can be gained then that classmate might have a chance of winning in deep red Texas.
I do have to remind myself that living in New York City does put me in a bubble. People in small towns and rural areas do see the world differently from me. But when I hear a statement like that, and even after I just wrote that, there is part of me that wants to believe that there are a set of core values that we all hold to. Such as the bonds of the social contract that we all enter into with each other to have a civil society. That those are the core values we all agree on and must be appealed to.
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