Trump-Proofing Your State

I don’t like to talk a lot about elections during the election season. I keep my voting to myself. But the 2024 elections are over. My state level voting was bad for me. My federal voting wasn’t too bad for me. Oh well, time for me to accept the results. But what is concerning to me is the rhetoric being spewed by by Democrat governors who don’t like the results.

States run by democrats like California, Washington, New York, Massachusetts, etc. have democrat governors pledging to protect the rights of their citizens from actions by a newly elected President of the US. But these same governors don’t say what rights they are protecting their citizens from. One even goes so far (and I won’t say California) to say he will protect his state culture. I have no idea what he is talking about. Culture? Music? Dancing? Food? Festivals? Language?

The last time we heard words like this was 164 years ago when a little-known guy from the upper mid-west, a Republican, was elected. His name was Lincoln. Lincoln’s election drove Democrats to go up in arms – literally. Those governors were protecting their citizens’ rights also. The right to own slaves. Those southern democrats were also protecting their culture and way of life – based on slavery. Hell, Lincoln had said he would not abolish slavery. Didn’t matter. The result was a Civil War with over 700,000 dead. But slaves were set free. And those states were changed

So what are these democrat governors protecting their citizens from? Why are these states acting this way? Why the poison words? How do these words help our country?

But then I’m an old guy and I don’t get it…….