Moral Monday Quarterbacking

Ah, the old “outsider” shibboleth rears its head. Shades of George Wallace’s “outside agitators.” But it’s not outsiders that Republicans should worry about; it’s the changing electorate inside North Carolina.
 
The Republican overreaction to Moral Mondays looks shaky and out of synch. Especially when you see this photo of a policeman hauling off a pleasant-looking middle-aged woman with her hands zip-tied behind her back. Thank goodness our government is now safe from her!
 
Here’s a good article that captures the tension developing across the South between hard-right Republicans in power in state capitals and an increasingly younger, darker and more progressive voting population.
 
It’s like pressure building up between tectonic plates. Eventually there’s an earthquake.
 
Governor McCrory sounded like he was standing on shaky ground when he warned the state Republican convention that “Outsiders are coming in and they’re going to try to do to us what they did to Scott Walker in Wisconsin.”
 
Senator Tom Goolsby sounded like he had fallen into a 1960s time warp when he railed: “Several hundred people – mostly white, angry, aged former hippies – appeared and screeched into microphones, talked about solidarity and chanted diatribes.”
 
Clearly, Democrats have a lot of work to do before they can turn this energy into victory at the polling place. But, one way or another, that energy will find an outlet.
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Moral Monday Quarterbacking

Ah, the old “outsider” shibboleth rears its head. Shades of George Wallace’s “outside agitators.” But it’s not outsiders that Republicans should worry about; it’s the changing electorate inside North Carolina.
 
The Republican overreaction to Moral Mondays looks shaky and out of synch. Especially when you see this photo of a policeman hauling off a pleasant-looking middle-aged woman with her hands zip-tied behind her back. Thank goodness our government is now safe from her!
 
Here’s a good article that captures the tension developing across the South between hard-right Republicans in power in state capitals and an increasingly younger, darker and more progressive voting population.
 
It’s like pressure building up between tectonic plates. Eventually there’s an earthquake.
 
Governor McCrory sounded like he was standing on shaky ground when he warned the state Republican convention that “Outsiders are coming in and they’re going to try to do to us what they did to Scott Walker in Wisconsin.”
 
Senator Tom Goolsby sounded like he had fallen into a 1960s time warp when he railed: “Several hundred people – mostly white, angry, aged former hippies – appeared and screeched into microphones, talked about solidarity and chanted diatribes.”
 
Clearly, Democrats have a lot of work to do before they can turn this energy into victory at the polling place. But, one way or another, that energy will find an outlet.
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