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Teresa D. Hawkes, Ph.D.'s avatar

I am an Air Force brat. I have lived in Texas and Florida. Living somewhere is different than traveling through for business or pleasure. It means you live on the ambient economy with all that implies. You have to try to get along with those who were born there and who live there. You are nothing more than a temporary stranger. Your only help is that you come from the US government. In the South, that is always a bad thing. You live in the ambient culture's structures as enforced by people. You obey their rules to stay alive and unharmed. This column fits well with what I experienced in the 'south' as represented by Texas and Florida. In Texas I was raped at two and five by common consent. By the time I lived in Florida, I had learned to keep my mouth shut and my behavior acceptable to the local populace. It is how I stayed alive and unharmed. Yes, I ignored and stayed away from the locals. I knew I would be leaving soon. However, there, females and poor males were always wrong. People with money at birth were always right. These two conditions were used to evaluate people and dole out repercussions. What are we to do about this? Hard to say, since this is an ancient form of government (rule of the rich over the poor, slavery accepted and approved, all females wrong except when kissing the appropriate nether regions of some local guy or guys, and just shut up and do as you are told.) Indeed, what do you do about this social arrangement that has existed in this country for over 400 years, and on Earth itself for as long as we have records?

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dan mcco's avatar

I've always marveled that the pro-life republicans are all for the death penalty and the anti-death penalty progressives are pro-abortion. As a Canadian, we take progressiveness to the outer limits. We outlawed the death penalty but allow abortions and medically assisted suicide on demand. Head scratcher.

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