I Am An Intuitive Person

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29. so here's a little story.

I have one lifelong friend left alive and she is a racist closed-minded bigot, so we don't talk much. But neither of us can entirely cut the other off because we love each other. Her daughter is also "conservative" (a word I think is a misnomer applied to the republicans of the 21st century, but that's a different discussion), but we're still fb friends. I mean I drove her mother to the hospital on the day she was born.

So anyhow. On 1/6 we had a conversation on fb and she was defending the "protest" which was by that moment becoming a full fledged riot and she commented that at least they weren't violent. She lives in Portland and believes that BLM protests were fueled by Antifa terrorists or some shit. Anyway I responded that a woman had been killed (I'd just witnessed Ashli Babbitt's last moments on PBS). She deleted her comment and said no more.

Fast forward to a couple days ago. This woman has 2 daughters of childbearing age. She posted that meme about "Don't forget to turn the clock back one hour on Sunday, and don't forget to vote on Tuesday to keep the clock from being turned back a century."

I read that as an admonishment to vote BLUE. I didn't react to her post at all, it's that dicey that I would not want to inspire her to delete it or somehow try to turn it into a message to vote trumpian, but what do you think? Is it possible that her daughters' well-being means more to her than being republican?!

i sure as hell hope that's what it means, and i'm just saying if so, she is not the only one. I can see thousands or possibly even millions of people voting for abortion rights in this election. I think it is possible that the republicans screwed themselves by rescinding Roe.

Women are people. We love who we love. That should absolutely matter more than clinging to a repressive and hateful ideology.