‘they don’t know any better’

I’m an old (very) white guy that grew up in Nebraska.

If any­one has the right to be a big­ot­ed MAGA id­iot I think I just might.

But I’m not. 

I grew and evolved.

“If Cal­i­for­nia is so great, why is every­one mov­ing to XXYZZ?”

“Every­one” is­n’t mov­ing, you just live in a tiny town. A round­ing er­rors worth of Cal­i­for­ni­ans have moved to your area. I walk by more peo­ple on my way to brunch

— Bran­don Brad­ford (@BrandonLBradfor) Oc­to­ber 29, 2022

When­ev­er I’m back in Ne­bras­ka vis­it­ing old friends and fam­i­ly peo­ple looooove to drop this stuff into conversation. 

Not that I blame them. They live in Ne­bras­ka so they need to be­lieve that Cal­i­for­nia is a failed state to cope.
 

Peo­ple are what they do and what they will allow. 

If some­one is evil and they sup­port evil things, they aren’t nice be­cause they are nice to you. They just hope you’re evil too.

And yes, re­pub­li­cans in 2022 are evil. Every one of them. Even your relatives.
 

Re­pub­li­cans just in­tro­duced a fed­er­al Don’t Say Gay bill, and it’s much worse than the Flori­da version. 

It’d de­fund any school, hos­pi­tal, or in­sti­tu­tion that ex­pos­es mi­nors to any LGBTQ+ ma­te­ri­als — or even LGT­BQ+ staff. 

This is on the ballot.

— San­ti­a­go May­er (@santiagomayer_) Oc­to­ber 19, 2022

If you vote for these mon­sters es­pe­cial­ly on the off chance that it might maybe pos­si­bly make gas cheap­er, you’re a de­fec­tive mis­fire of a person.
 

“With­in hours of the bru­tal at­tack last month on Paul Pelosi, the hus­band of the speak­er of the House, ac­tivists and me­dia out­lets on the right be­gan cir­cu­lat­ing ground­less claims – near­ly all of them sin­is­ter, and many ho­mo­pho­bic – cast­ing doubt on what had happened …
The mis­in­for­ma­tion came from all lev­els of Re­pub­li­can pol­i­tics. A U.S. sen­a­tor cir­cu­lat­ed the view that ‘none of us will ever know’ what re­al­ly hap­pened at the Pelo­sis’ San Fran­cis­co home. A se­nior Re­pub­li­can con­gress­man re­ferred to the at­tack­er as a ‘nud­ist hip­pie male pros­ti­tute,’ base­less­ly as­sert­ing that the sus­pect had a per­son­al re­la­tion­ship with Mr. Pelosi. For­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald J. Trump ques­tioned whether the at­tack might have been staged.
The world’s rich­est man helped am­pli­fy the sto­ries. But none of it was true.”
—NYT, 5 No­vem­ber 2022
 

This night­mare is the world we live in when you al­low friends and fam­i­ly to be MAGA with­out pushback. 

Your gym­nas­tics in ser­vice of “ci­vil­i­ty” have robbed the coun­try of its own civility.
 

Yeah, I get that you’re tired of hear­ing how every elec­tion is “the most im­por­tant elec­tion ever” but re­pub­li­cans keep mak­ing that true through their bad faith, fas­cist thirst, and back­wards “Chris­t­ian” atavism. 

They will nev­er be sat­is­fied and need to be shut down. Here and now. Today. 

Vote their horde back into the shad­ows where it be­longs. Every­thing de­pends on it.
 

Was gonna do mail-in but I want­ed to *feel* this vote. And get a sticker.

 

—ja­son malmberg

Flom­mist Ja­son Malm­berg is a sim­ple man who be­lieves in brown liquor and small dogs. He also makes art some­times. Copy­right © 2022 Ja­son Malmberg.

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