Texas, what a sad state
Via the Designers for Obama group I came across a very precisely written account from a woman in Texas who was mistreated by her fellow Texans. I empathize with this woman. I left Texas six years ago (even Austin which has a small bubble of progressive thinkers and is the only city supporting Obama is still surrounded by rednecks) and moved to the east coast primarily because I have no patience for backward thinking politics. Check out an excerpt from her website which unfortunately I identify with:
Nobody understands what the conservatives are up to in this election, what with McCain’s constantly changing positions and Sarah Palin’s not very subtle hatemongering. The reason why is that only a conservative can understand how a conservative’s mind works. My mother, a stone faced lizard who assured me in my childhood that the fossils in Dinosaur National Monument were plaster fakes made by people who hated God, gave me a clue after many years of estrangement from her, when she was on her death bed. I had divorced the missionary husband way back for his being more interested in perverting rather than converting the young Japanese men who hung around our church to talk about the Bible with me. I was the window dressing attraction in the conversion scam, having been a commercial model on Japanese TV for six years back then in addition to being a pastor’s wife. As a result of my running away with Pete from the missionary and from my minister parents and uncles who backed this fellow minister, I managed to bring out the worst in these conservatives, their meanness and treachery so revealing of the double talk, stab in the back strategies of the conservative politicians we are assaulted with on TV in this election. Only in the waning days of my mother’s life did she share with me the confidences that bind a mother and her family together. Her profound mother-daughter advice: “Don’t ever say what you think.”
http://www.matrix-evolutions.com/
Chart from http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/
