There's Something About You . . .

Then when Roe fell, there were a lot of protests outside the courthouses in cities near me, and though those city courthouses do serve the surrounding rural areas as well, the cities themselves are all rather progressive and left-leaning, so once again I was like "Okay, what is the point of this?" but I went anyway just for the experience. We stood on a street corner with our signs. Most people driving by honked in agreement with us. A few people yelled "abortion is murder" at us out their car windows, and we yelled back "abortion is healthcare!" Cool, okay, still didn't get the point because it's not like we were changing any minds or there in large numbers (we were no threat to any power structures), and the city already largely agreed with us.

But then we got another SUV that pulled up and yelled "abortion is murder!" at us (both husband and wife this time). Looked in the back seat, and they were traveling with their daughter who was maybe 13ish. She locked eyes with me, gave me the most serious look I've ever received, and gave us a thumbs up just above the window ledge so that her family couldn't see.

In our town the right wing have sometimes had protests or hosted speakers. We have one guy - one guy - who rallies the counter protests, which are always larger than any right-wing audience, and we turn up and make it awkward.

The right wing are less visible in Bristol or Brighton because they’d be afraid: if you tried to book an anti-gay speaker in Brighton you’d be laughed to death and then eaten. Why shouldn’t our town have the same protective shell of reputation? How else will they know who we are? How else are they supposed to know that our town doesn’t want them?

What makes a city liberal? What keeps a city liberal?

'Cause he is just a teenage dirtbag, baby 😔🤟🎶

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