Pine Belt Progressive

Personal Perspective

(originally published on a separate page)

My long-term goal here is to find Mississippi Progressives a home. That’s why I started this blog back in the spring, and it’s why I came back to it after my long absence. I know you’re out there. Whether our online home turns out to be here or somewhere else is of no consequence to me. We just need one, and it needs to be an unapologetically Progressive sort of place.

I’ve held Progressive values for as long as I can remember, though I didn’t always call them that. I have lived 35 years among people who call themselves “conservative,” most of them out of tradition or willful ignorance. During that time I have witnessed a slow-but-steady process of cultural militarization, the reduction of Christianity in the public sphere to a set of rigid theocratic imperatives, total abdication of responsibility on the part of the free press, and a near-complete subversion of our Bill of Rights. Not to mention countless policy initiatives that could have made life better for large numbers of our population, all de-railed by unacknowledged racism, patriarchy, xenophobia, jingoism, and greed.

I am tired of insinuations that liberal is a dirty word.

I am tired of hearing people use the word “Democrat” as a racial slur.

I am tired of seeing the received wisdom that Christians cannot also hold good liberal ideas, (such as a commitment to the strict separation of church and state)  poured into the heads of young people who are still trying to figure out how to think for themselves.

I am tired of wandering in the wilderness. Time to push back.

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By: Gene’O

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