luccadanielgreen.com/2023/07/29/w... An even more important read, if you haven’t yet. This book was illuminating even to me, and I was forced to grow up in the far-right of the Clinton, Bush, and Obama years. The work @jeffsharlet.bsky.social put in to this project is stunning, and frightening af - ThreadSky

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An even more important read, if you haven’t yet. This book was illuminating even to me, and I was forced to grow up in the far-right of the Clinton, Bush, and Obama years. The work @jeffsharlet.bsky.social put in to this project is stunning, and frightening af

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coosbaypat.bsky.social•1 day ago

Great read. Important.

paula228.bsky.social•1 day ago

I read white rural rage. That really hit home. I have a best friend from Butler Pa. These authors went to the heart of America. The GOP zeroed right in on them and started to create democrat boogie men.
I cannot tell how true this book was. I ignored a lot through the years, and light bulbs!

ldgreen.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oooo!! I am definitely going to check out this book. Thanks for this recommendation! It is so maddening what’s happening because it never had to come to this, except for the hubris of the centrists who were too busy fighting “the left.”

paula228.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yup enlightening. I know quite a few from Butler. Even though it is 30 min from the city it’s like they are from another planet.

ldgreen.bsky.social•1 day ago

I’d suspect that proximity is part of it. That’s the dynamic in SE Michigan after the White Flight out of Detroit. I grew up in the town equidistant from all the production hubs, Detroit, Flint, and Jackson, especially. It is not the Bigotville it used to be, but their urbanphobia was loaded af

paula228.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s just astounding how bad things really are. They are going to scoop up the homeless as well! They create the opioid crisis, but yet!
If this isn’t a mayor wake up call, I don’t know what is!
I’m older been voting since Carter. If people are poor they are fucked!

ldgreen.bsky.social•1 day ago

I’m revealing myself more and more these days as an optimist-despite, but realistically… there are SO many people about to be ruined that the only way for survival will be an alternative economy. Nothing top-down, just an organic coming-together outside The Markets. Who even knows anymore though. 🤞

rcalvert.bsky.social•1 day ago

Very good book.

jeffsharlet.bsky.social•1 day ago

Thanks for reading, Lucca!

ldgreen.bsky.social•1 day ago

No no, thank YOU for this work. One unnerving part of the book for me was the experience of you being undercover in such sinister spaces. It’s been a whole since I read it, and I’m still haunted by the men’s conference thing esp, and your female colleague. But the result is so important. Thank you!

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