09-27-2022, 05:53 PM
Mississippi has tribal politics based largely on "white" and "black". The partisan divide is the racial divide, and people seem to excuse anything so long as the harm goes to the other. Ideally service, competence, and integrity overpower all else in politics, so I can make it very simple.
To blacks in Mississippi: if you have a choice between a corrupt, demagogic, and incompetent black Democrat and a white Republican who proves honest, non-polarizing, competent, and intent on serving Mississippi residents, then vote for the white pol.
To whites in Mississippi: if you have a choice between a corrupt, demagogic, and incompetent white Republican and a black Democrat who proves honest, non-polarizing, competent, and intent on serving Mississippi residents, then vote for the white pol.
The trick is to find or develop those pols who put public service above identity and canned ideology. After that, politics is easy. Solutions might not be, but ideally we elect our politicians to solve problems or facilitate solutions.
There is no excuse for bad water in the state's capitol. Plenty of large American cities with largely African-American populations have perfectly-good drinking water. For example, Detroit water was the solution to the water problems of Flint, Michigan.
To blacks in Mississippi: if you have a choice between a corrupt, demagogic, and incompetent black Democrat and a white Republican who proves honest, non-polarizing, competent, and intent on serving Mississippi residents, then vote for the white pol.
To whites in Mississippi: if you have a choice between a corrupt, demagogic, and incompetent white Republican and a black Democrat who proves honest, non-polarizing, competent, and intent on serving Mississippi residents, then vote for the white pol.
The trick is to find or develop those pols who put public service above identity and canned ideology. After that, politics is easy. Solutions might not be, but ideally we elect our politicians to solve problems or facilitate solutions.
There is no excuse for bad water in the state's capitol. Plenty of large American cities with largely African-American populations have perfectly-good drinking water. For example, Detroit water was the solution to the water problems of Flint, Michigan.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.