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mk · 1162 days ago · link · · parent · post: 10 Years ago this weekend, the American Progressive movement was murdered and nobody cares.
Not real people. Swing state voters.Meanwhile, the argument "my neighbors are real people and yours aren't" is beneath you.
California was reliably Republican until they decided to profile brown people. Arizona was reliably Democratic until Barry Goldwater encouraged military families to move in. Eventually it, too, became too racist to persist. you know what a "swing state" is? It's an ephemeral political abstraction weaponized to disenfranchise the coasts. Swing state Michigan: "Deep red" Texas:
