You've touched on one of my pet peeves: how little attention national media pays to what's happening in large swathes of the country (and when they do, they get a lot wrong). I have my frustrations with Ohio, especially our state government which has increasingly gone the extremist route of other states under trifecta Republican rule. Li…
You've touched on one of my pet peeves: how little attention national media pays to what's happening in large swathes of the country (and when they do, they get a lot wrong). I have my frustrations with Ohio, especially our state government which has increasingly gone the extremist route of other states under trifecta Republican rule. Life in my city and community, though, is not among them. There are a lot of things that work well, including local governments, much of the time.
I saw the same thing on a back roads camping trip this summer: 61 days, 16 states and over 8200 miles. I saw the dying towns and the despair as well, yet over all I saw a lot of small towns that worked well. And there's nothing like connecting with people in real life to realize that we have so much more in common with each other than the noxious politics that divide us, especially on social media.
Thanks so much. This is very much the contradictory reality we are trying to convey. If people think there is *no* hope, they (we) understandably hunker down. If they realize it's an ongoing, open-ended struggle to determine the future of the country, they are more likely to engage.
You've touched on one of my pet peeves: how little attention national media pays to what's happening in large swathes of the country (and when they do, they get a lot wrong). I have my frustrations with Ohio, especially our state government which has increasingly gone the extremist route of other states under trifecta Republican rule. Life in my city and community, though, is not among them. There are a lot of things that work well, including local governments, much of the time.
I saw the same thing on a back roads camping trip this summer: 61 days, 16 states and over 8200 miles. I saw the dying towns and the despair as well, yet over all I saw a lot of small towns that worked well. And there's nothing like connecting with people in real life to realize that we have so much more in common with each other than the noxious politics that divide us, especially on social media.
Thanks so much. This is very much the contradictory reality we are trying to convey. If people think there is *no* hope, they (we) understandably hunker down. If they realize it's an ongoing, open-ended struggle to determine the future of the country, they are more likely to engage.