I tend to use facebook more now that I have my IRL friends, work buddies and many Ljers pooled there, and I wrote something there that I think I will post on LJ for you.
I am 100000000% on your side.
The only thing that encourages me is that in 2000, prop 22 passed with a shockingly high percentage. This time, while we didn't defeat it in the landslide that seemed so within our reach, the numbers were much improved. There's been a mobility of millions in these last 8 years.
The next time it's up for voting, we'll make it happen.
Even though I live in Califonria, it's easy for me to forget that California is not solidly urban or adequately educated (our schools are not well ranked). There's large, overwhelming sprawls of agricultural, rural areas. And, there's a lot of immigrant groups who either vote with their religion (Latin Americans) or vote Republican because they are legitimately afraid of communism (mainly Asian groups) and consider Republicans the party of McCarthism which they LIKED (wish I was joking here).
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Date: 2008-11-09 11:02 pm (UTC)I tend to use facebook more now that I have my IRL friends, work buddies and many Ljers pooled there, and I wrote something there that I think I will post on LJ for you.
I am 100000000% on your side.
The only thing that encourages me is that in 2000, prop 22 passed with a shockingly high percentage. This time, while we didn't defeat it in the landslide that seemed so within our reach, the numbers were much improved. There's been a mobility of millions in these last 8 years.
The next time it's up for voting, we'll make it happen.
Even though I live in Califonria, it's easy for me to forget that California is not solidly urban or adequately educated (our schools are not well ranked). There's large, overwhelming sprawls of agricultural, rural areas. And, there's a lot of immigrant groups who either vote with their religion (Latin Americans) or vote Republican because they are legitimately afraid of communism (mainly Asian groups) and consider Republicans the party of McCarthism which they LIKED (wish I was joking here).