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Thank you for writing this! As a long-time White boomer organizer (who was raised in white evangelical culture) I am SO tired of hearing old white people talk about the need to "reach out" to old white conservative voters and trying to understand them and bring them along. No, our goal, is to reach out to Black, brown and younger voters; listen to them and elect candidates who represent them. Let the right stew in their fantasies is the correct response. Thanks for saying it.

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On the rare occasions when they do accept that one of the stories pushed by the right-wing outrage machine is wrong, they'll shrug and say "well, it sounded like something a liberal would do" and move on to the next.

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Sadly the corporate media jumps all over this nonsense and magnifies it way way out of proportion. Look at what they are doing this week with the Biden Papers. CNN and MSNBC are making a bigger deal out it than Fox, and both the NYT and the WaPo have it at the top of their web pages as if it were the coming end of the world. I still find the timing fascinating. All this surfaces just as Trump is about to be indicted by the State of Georgia, possibly indicted by Jack Smith, the same week his long time CFO goes to jail for helping him evade taxes, and the GQP goes into full MAGA freak out mode.

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If they are going to howl into a void, let them. There’s no point in trying to fill an bottomless pit with reason--it’s a waste of time and energy, a risk to intellect and emotional well-being.

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wonderful piece! brilliant!

and love the Kal-el pics - appreciate you sharing your sweet doggie dog!

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Kal-El feels the weight of the world on his shoulders and shares your frustrations with Republicans and how Democrats deal with them...

Good thing you have each other to lean on.

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Well, Oliver, these are the same people who expect their 12 year olds to still believe in Santa Claus & the tooth fairy!!

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Being as their basic belief is the Paulist version of the teaching of Jesus of Nazareth, is it any wonder that the small stuff goes off the rails, too?

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Is this a satirical newsletter?

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