I'm from metro Detroit and can think of quite a few people who will be happy to sign. I'm sure it will be even easier in our many rural areas.

Glad it's in the Detroit News. That will alert a lot of the more mainstream, less vocal dissenters.

My church can't speak to specific politicians, only certain policies, but I guarantee you this will be discussed and passed around by the churchgoers. And we have large congregation.

I will, along with my husband and very likely my parents. I'm sure my grandpa will sign as well since he's been banned from life by the governor and trapped inside by his own family.

My mom has heard from multiple sources that even before COVID, Whitmer was one of those "my way or the highway", "constantly on a power trip" sort of politicians.

So I'm sort of in that group. I'm done with posting most opinions on Facebook, because it just leads to needless anger and bumper sticker phrases I've heard before.

I don't support BLM the movement because of their other ties, but I did take the opportunity to post about some legitimately racist stuff that I experienced in my school system growing up (and into adulthood--so not that long ago).

The ironic thing is that many of my FB friends posting the most vehemently about BLM are still living in said fairly racist hometown, benefitting from the high taxes and exclusivity while going into the city to enjoy nightlife and pretend to know how the other half lives.

For example: one of the most annoying liberal posters on my Facebook feed is a teacher in the school district I was calling out. If I post something even remotely pro-life, he's immediately there to tell me the movement is anti-woman (even though I'm female and he's male), but he was completely silent on the whole "The place where you work is racist" issue.

Had a good conversation with my mom about how feminists in her generation are now looked down on for not being progressive. She said "With everything feminism has come to endorse, I don't call myself a feminist anymore."

She left the president spot empty on her ballot for the last race, but said she was relieved when Trump won and probably should have just voted for him. I know a few other more moderate conservatives who feel the same way.

I'm in a group for parents of Black children. I had a Black foster daughter, but she was moved out a few months ago.

Someone posted a picture of the quote "You can't claim to support me while supporting others who wish for my extermination." They captioned it, "Do you support Trump?"

The irony is that the child I was raising, who had caused me to join the group, is exactly the kind of child who Planned Parenthood would love to kill: second child born to a teenage mother, drugs in her system, tossed around foster care due to complete incompetence. And yet, she is extremely kindhearted, talented, and has a ton of potential.

So yeah, I can't support an organization that seeks her extermination.

As someone with anxiety and depression with a very genetic/chemical basis, antidepressants were like magic. I feel so much better on a daily basis.

But I'm also a foster parent, and I see kids' responses to one of the crappiest hands you can be dealt in life misdiagnosed as ADHD, etc. all the time. With many of these kids, the problem is their world, not their brain chemistry. That said, mental illness can run in families and cause kids to end up in foster care, so it is important to still look for red flags and consider medication.

It's all about balance. Thanks for speaking up!

Canada would think so. They would be so optimistic about how their socialist policies would save the city and bring harmony and balance to the world.

They would pump money into the city, which would promptly disappear due to rampant corruption. The increase in the already-exorbitant taxes would drive out anyone who hadn't already left but was able to leave. Corporate taxes would move Detroit operations back to cities still in Michigan. Canada would slowly collapse as Detroit became a black hole for its resources, begging the UK, the European union, or the US to annex the entire country in order to support their growing debt. The EU would agree on the condition that they leave Detroit back to the US, claiming something about nationalism as the reason.

Meanwhile, the bottle of maple syrup would only give.

EDIT: I grew up very close to Detroit with an ingrained fear of crossing into the city. Two of my relatives have been held up at gunpoint in Detroit. I'm not bitter at all.

I'm a grocery deliverer in a conservative Michigan city, and didn't see the changes everyone talked about this weekend. The whole store was open. Seeds displayed prominently. I bought Easter eggs for multiple people and a little pre-K activity book for one family.

It's not like she's going to walk into every Meijer in the state and personally enforce this.

Thanks be to God! Alleluia, Alleluia!

I have also encountered Jesus personally on multiple occasions. There really is no experience like His presence and reassurance.

For those who are looking for more widely accepted evidence, I just finished reading The Case for Christ by Lee Stroebel. Fantastic book. Highly recommend to people of any faith background or none at all.

This entire problem would be solved if we could somehow get another state (or Canada?) to annex the city of Detroit. Most of our COVID cases would be gone, and we would have fewer liberal (and criminal) elected officials.

My family uninvited me from Easter because of this. Partly due to pressure from my socialist older brother. They do live in one of the most infected counties though, and I don't, but still. It's not like I'm at a huge risk at 25 with no preexisting conditions.

The most ridiculous part is that they let me come over for Christmas when I actually had the flu...I just wore a mask and stayed away from everyone.

I agree with most of what you're saying, but really, the government needs to get out of student loans all together. Then private entities can actually do risk analysis and not loan to people majoring in underwater basket weaving.

The government has basically written colleges a blank check on both sides of the equation--first in subsidies, then in loans.

Yeah, it's kind of ridiculous how they think they're starting a revolution with someone who has been in government longer than some of them have been alive, and has still accomplished nothing.

Thanks for this!! My family believed the MSM on this one, and it didn't sound right to me, but I didn't have the facts yet.