The Nancy A. Temple who is listed on this case appears to be "Nancy Anne Temple", who was Arthur Anderson's in-house attorney prior to and during the Enron scandal that destroyed that company. Not who I would have chosen to work on my case.
Even the failing NY Times has Kentucky as Red so far: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/results-kentucky-president.html
Trump +40, but only, 3% of the vote in.
I found the_Donald on Reddit the night of the 2016 election. I was in grad school at the time--since dropped out. It was the first presidential election that I could have voted in, but I didn't because the media made me think both candidates were unlikable.
As I walked into my night class that evening, the NY Times gave Hillary a 95+% chance of winning. I sat down, and the class spent 15 minutes at the start just bashing Trump. It was unnecessary, juvenile, and un-nuanced, but I had learned to just keep my head down and plow through.
I walked out of class a few hours later and on my way back to my car, I checked the NY Times page again. The race was currently 50-50 Trump-Clinton. I realized that something strange was afoot.
At home, I spent hours flipping between news stations, websites, whatever I could find to figure out just what was going on. By midnight central time, it was clear that somehow, someway, Trump was wrong. And, I decided that I needed to know more about him. Suddenly I was reading articles, and importantly, going back and watching Trump's speeches.
Many of the things that I thought I didn't like Trump for, he hadn't said. The media lied. And, the racist, sexist, misogynist, foreigner-hating, gay-bashing forum, t_D, was actually a pretty fun and open place with more respect than a lot of places on the internet.
My mind was blown. I thought I was pretty well-informed. I did, and still do, read more news than the average person. But the mainstream media lied, the mainstream polls were wrong, and despite my best efforts, I had a false view of the world. Been around here ever since.
Guess what: people die from colds and the flu every year. Someone gave it to them. It's really not up until now that "harming other individuals" with disease became a justification to mask entire populations. That logic is completely bunk if we apply it to literally any other disease.
I love this analysis of the tactics here, because it's a big part of the reason we're losing. Electing Trump was a big moment for the will of the majority, but that's just the federal level. We're getting smoked at just about every other level, and it's because we've long refused or misunderstood the nature of our opponent. They use asymmetrical tactics that we're not going to be able to beat with logic and reason, even if we're right and even if most people agree with us.
To my point: I moved to a blue state from a red state a few years ago, in part to see the country and in part to support a friend. I was recently approached by some center-left friends who want to support a local political action machine to start taking down local officials who use race to silence dissenting opinions. I'm all on board with that, and it makes me think that the right might be able to build a coalition all the way across the center of the aisle if we were to play our cards right.
That being said, it doesn't mean we should think too much about the federal level. It's time to start organizing locally so that we're not defeated by people who care more or are better organized. It's time to start local political groups who work towards bettering their cities and neighborhoods. It's time to start running for local offices. Run for your school board. Run for city council. Run for mayor or county supervisor. Try to make a real change.
The truth is that despite the fact that they're in the minority of opinion on nearly every major topic, the far left has been able to gain disproportionate representation that lets them enforce their will on the rest of us. I've love to be a Ben Shapiro, Dave Rubin, or Matt Christensen, who believes that we can change people's minds by showing them the errors in their thinking, but that's a long-term strategy. I think we're running out of time, and we've been getting so solidly beaten for so long, that if we don't start using their tactics against them soon, we're going to end up fighting a civil war.
Hey Pede,
Hang in there. I'll send some prayers your way.