Red State - Blue State

                                                            

      I've lived in Louisiana, New York, New Jersey, Michigan, California and Texas where I was born and raised and where I live today. In my early years Texas was a deep blue. The winner of the Democratic primary was automatically the next governor.In later years Republicans took over and Texas became a center of lunacy and ignorance.

      People here don't think very much about the red or blue designation and like in other states, most people never care one way or the other. Most are far more interested in meeting the mortgage or rent payment.  Their car payment or repairs and putting food on the table. Buying school clothes and supplies for their children and most important to them; their very own cell phone and number. And the TV set everyone has to own, with or without cable.

     I found these basics in every state I lived. I also found the homeless and poor everywhere.  It should be unbelievable that such exist in the richest nation on earth. And yet it does.  Our politics seem more based on hate and greed than love.  Until that changes, all else will maintain it's status quo.

     Shakespeare wrote in Hamlet "thus conscience does make cowards of us all and makes us rather bear those ills we have than fly to others we know not."  This accounts for the apathy of the American people and only when they rise up en masse will anything change for the better.
Vamonos y votar.