All right, try this: I live in ruby-red South Dakota. Here is uber-conservative Senator Mike Rounds at a town hall in Spearfish in August, 2022, where angry election deniers booed, shouted for impeachment, and threatened armed rebellion: https://www.bhpioneer.com/local_news/tables-turn-on-rounds-at-round-table-talk/article_4c7a0b9e-1ffe-…
All right, try this: I live in ruby-red South Dakota. Here is uber-conservative Senator Mike Rounds at a town hall in Spearfish in August, 2022, where angry election deniers booed, shouted for impeachment, and threatened armed rebellion:
This is not the only time or place this has happened in South Dakota.
Now South Dakota has always been pretty conservative, with a strong ethic of hard work, courtesy, (i.e., manners) and a sense of fairness and decency. Most of these people at the town hall were "Blue State Refugees" who moved here to evade Covid restrictions, taxes, etc., and gobbled up most of the scenic, i.e., expensive, areas of the Black Hills. Ever since they've been raising cain at school board meetings, town hall meetings, etc., because - to them - South Dakota is not conservative enough, and they're going to change that, no matter what it takes. They're fairly frightening, because they're willing to go to any lengths to get what they want. Some have already been arrested for being involved in plots against various government officials. So I'm not particularly worried about heckling students.
And I agree, listening and earnestly trying to understand other people is very important. The trouble is, right now there are people who will not listen on the right as well as the left. Donald Trump won the South Dakota election with 61% of the vote, and our Congressmen were Republican, as well as our Governor - and it's still not conservative enough for the Blue State Refugees, who want 100% of everything. And that's frightening.
I wish you well also. We've had a great discussion, civil and knowledgeable. I appreciate it.
All right, try this: I live in ruby-red South Dakota. Here is uber-conservative Senator Mike Rounds at a town hall in Spearfish in August, 2022, where angry election deniers booed, shouted for impeachment, and threatened armed rebellion:
https://www.bhpioneer.com/local_news/tables-turn-on-rounds-at-round-table-talk/article_4c7a0b9e-1ffe-11ed-82b2-af4c0b0e3652.html
This is not the only time or place this has happened in South Dakota.
Now South Dakota has always been pretty conservative, with a strong ethic of hard work, courtesy, (i.e., manners) and a sense of fairness and decency. Most of these people at the town hall were "Blue State Refugees" who moved here to evade Covid restrictions, taxes, etc., and gobbled up most of the scenic, i.e., expensive, areas of the Black Hills. Ever since they've been raising cain at school board meetings, town hall meetings, etc., because - to them - South Dakota is not conservative enough, and they're going to change that, no matter what it takes. They're fairly frightening, because they're willing to go to any lengths to get what they want. Some have already been arrested for being involved in plots against various government officials. So I'm not particularly worried about heckling students.
Well, maybe where you live. Not here.
And I agree, listening and earnestly trying to understand other people is very important. The trouble is, right now there are people who will not listen on the right as well as the left. Donald Trump won the South Dakota election with 61% of the vote, and our Congressmen were Republican, as well as our Governor - and it's still not conservative enough for the Blue State Refugees, who want 100% of everything. And that's frightening.
I wish you well also. We've had a great discussion, civil and knowledgeable. I appreciate it.