I never realized I liked Garth Brooks

[Volaris]

23. I didn't know this about Garth for a long while,

and it was someone here who pointed it out to me, and I'm still grateful that they did.

There IS a strain of Conservatism in America that is a more Classical, less Corporatized kind, (it's about the maintenance of what has been found by hard trial and error to WORK for the American People), and it IS possible, i think, for a Liberal to go down into "The South", and really and truly kick ass down there.

But it will take the kind of balls that I also think most of our elected Democrats lack. Greyson could do it, WARREN could probably do it, Howard Dean..someone not afraid to go stand on the destroyed mountain-tops of Appalachia, and say "Yeah, This is America, and we don't have to tolerate this from the Coal Co. Owners that have been fucking you over for a hundred years."

The proof I have is that these people know full well that FDR is the reason a lot of that region has electricity, and I get a lot of people come through the hotel that I work at--even the most self-professed Conservative of the bunch swears by the Tennessee Valley Authority, knows damn well it's why power in the region is as inexpensive as it is, and doesn't want it privatized for all the oil in Texas.

Our job as Liberals isn't to sell them on the statement "Government isn't worthless." It's to PROVE that statement beyond a shadow of a doubt, in a manner that reflects real, tangible, POSITIVE change in their lives.

Like I said, I don't know if a lot of our elected Democrats have the spine to even try at this point.