How do we take back the vocabulary? That seems to me to be one of
our biggest challenges, and call me idealistic, but can't the
blogosphere be one place to begin? I'm not as wrecked as everyone
else because, out here in red Montana we elected a Democratic
govenor, thus ending 30 years of statehouse dominion by the
extractive industries, we defeated the reintroduction of cyanide
mining (a very big deal in a state where the mining industry is, as
one guy in the paper said "the only place a guy with a high school
education can make $75k a year"), legalized medical marijuana (!?)
and voted in a long-term democratic activist on the Public Service
Commission (energy -- also a big deal). On a really granular level,
we contintued to win key seats on the school board and the city and
county commissions. This in a county with a sizeable population of
capital-C "Christians", homeschoolers, etc ... the local stuff has
been 15 year ground war, and we owe our gains to a lot of good
people who were willing to run hard in races they knew they'd lose.
But if the tide can begin to turn here in Montana, I think there's
hope. We've got to learn to appeal to folks who don't want to think
long and hard about an issue, who want to make a decision and get
on with it, and who essentially don't *like* the process. I'm not
sure where we begin, but I'd like to hope that maybe it's in
discussions like these.
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