I live in rural Illinois. But my little town is in the only blue district for states in any direction. Deep, deep, deep blue. Been living across the state because of that whole house fire thing. In a town almost the same size. 7,800. As blue as my town is this is even more red. This is the town, or kind of town, that carried Trump into the White House.
Talking to folks here or my family members (not my parents I might add) and they know I am a far left liberal, I am proud of it and will tell you what I think if you ask. They always want to bring up religion and guns.
I am like you are barking up the wrong tree here. Sure I might be an atheist and hate guns, but have you ever heard me say I would ban either. Ever even heard me bring up these topics. I got issues with both, but in the grand scheme of things if they bring you pleasure then fine.
I have the ability to dislike something and not need to bitch about it nor, and this is important, want to take that away from you.
They are like but ..... and I am like stop. I did a Google search and in this town of 7,800 there are 17 churches. Heck Jehovah Witness's have a church. I don't know who thinks they are taking away your right to worship, not ever met somebody that does, and if they do exist they are very bad at achieving their objectives.
And guns. I count three places I can buy guns in this town. I can buy groceries in one place and they are doing a raffle for a freaking gun.
Don't you realize politicians, who you vote for, want to distract you with god and guns and not address things that matter to you. That actually affect your life.
Two of the three factories in this town are gone. Only one left not union. When I am talking to my cousins I note their parents are retired. Former factory workers. They have great benefits and kind of comfortable in retirement. Don't you want that for your husbands that are working at the sole factory left standing? Why do they have that, unions!
How about we talk about education. Your primary school closed this summer and moving the kids to the high school next session because you couldn't afford to keep it open. And I read in the paper the other day it was sold to a church for pennies on the dollar. You openly tell me there is no future for your children here, wouldn't closing your primary school kind of freak you out?
What about your power bills? You have the largest coal fired power plant in the world not in China a few miles away. By my crude math you are paying almost 40% more per kilowatt than I pay. But heaven forbid you join the co-op my city gets its power through, because I don't know, too hippie liberal for you all? If your power bill is $200 a month wouldn’t you rather pay $120 like I do?
You can't walk into a gas station and not see pallets of bottled water. Why, well your water tastes "funny." As somebody that lives on water, ice tea, and coffee it is kind of strange to start to make a cup of coffee and be told, no use the bottled water. We don't drink the tap water. WTF!
You tell me you have to pinch every penny. Well us liberals want to give you a tax cut and raise taxes on the top 5% or so. That would mean me raising my taxes!
I could go on and on, but keep worrying about god and guns.