With all respect to , this is a bizarre and frankly disturbing ad that suggests that the path to "common ground" is entirely on white space and the assuaging of white anxiety. Really?
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I’ve been to that chapel several times. I’ve driven down countless boarded up Main streets in Kansas & Nebraska to get there. Look beyond to ’s excellent memoir of growing up poor in Kansas, “Heartland”:
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No doubt the ad speaks to the anxieties and sufferings of people on those Main streets in Kansas and Nebraska. But what does it mean to meet "in the middle" by implying that those are the only or the critical anxieties facing our country?
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That sort of is the truth though, the middle has moved right. It won’t stay that way though, but Biden’s win came from capturing racial and religious minorities while winning back some white Christians Hillary lost. Particularly Catholics in the Great Lakes states and AZ.
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Maybe you have to say ... odd things to talk somebody off a ledge, or to get them to put a gun down.
It works sometimes.
It's said that facts are useless against propaganda, so maybe this is worth a try.
I don't know.
"The middle is a tough place to get to"...... unless you can fly in by private jet to film yourself there.
I understood the message to be that people in general need to step back from extreme ideologies that lead to violence.
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