Come to think of it, this kind of thinking can come in handy if we’re doing any organizing out in rural America, assuming one is not rural.

As a leftist growing up in the middle of nowhere in a red state, I’ll admit that I almost felt ashamed of being…a rural American and I stopped doing the shit that I really liked growing up doing. I don’t dislike the US because I have a strange aversion to cowboys and peach cobblers, I just want the US to stop blowing up brown kids with my healthcare money and to be nicer to the rainbow people and women. No matter what the Bible says. I tend to get along with people better if I just embrace what I do growing up instead of trying to LARP as a Californian as I did growing up.