I'm thinking of inquiring into what it might take to transfer there...
Because...
Yep...
If the American people fall for this, I just can't take it anymore.
I realize that I, and my fellow San Franciscans, are in the minority. Because I grew up in Michigan, one of the most interesting states in the nation in our times. If you want to get a sense of America and its problems, make a trip to Michigan. You'll find it all.
The ancien regime is dying there, under the weight of the past half-century's misfortunes, mishandlings, and misleaders. The American auto industry is breathing its last, and in the staunchly blue regions of what was once America's greatest industrial state, where the American dream reached its loftiest heights, Democrats are wandering, dazed and confused. And tense, because the only thing holding them together all these years was that industrial way of life: people of all different races, religions, and backgrounds. Regional cooperation otherwise is unknown to them.
And outside the manufacturing centers of Detroit, Dearborn, Flint... The counties glow as red as they do in the bible belt, fueling deep divisions in state legislation.
Michigan is starving for a new path, for an economic boost, for jobs, for young people... And it's been that way for a while now.
When I moved to the Bay Area, being a tried and true Ann Arbor liberal, proud of my days as a rally-girl for the Defend Affirmative Action Party in the 90s, when white red-county students were suing my beloved University of Michigan all the way to the Supreme Court for admitting black blue-county students ahead of them, I found that my politics were the same as most San Franciscans (maybe a little more to the left, even).
But I knew, and I know now, the rest of America is a much stickier, selfish place.
Okay -- let's just call it "more complicated."
And I've been on the Yelp talk threads all morning listening to educated, bleeding San Franciscan hearts saying things like...
"HELLO PRESIDENT OBAMA! He must be laughing right now, McCain is INSANE, he just cost himself the race."
And...
"McCain's camp is thinking that they will hold onto the soccer moms by picking a female running mate. I think he's 'misunderestimating' the fact that he may [come] off as superficial and misogynistic to the public..."
And...
"I'm listening to NPR right now, and they're being all cheeky about Sarah Palin. I love it."
McCain, insane? Yes, yes he is. This entire thing insane? Absolutely. A complete political ploy that insults the intelligence of thinking Americans everywhere? Um, YEAH.
But, Bay Area residents --
WAKE THE FXXX UP.
You do not represent the will and mindset of the American people.
Do you realize how the rest of the country sees YOU? They still think SUSHI IS GROSS. THEY DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT "MISOGYNISTIC" MEANS!
OF COURSE THEY CAN FALL FOR THIS SHIT.
And, they don't listen to NPR, either.
I happened to get this news about Sarah Beauty Queen this morning just as I stepped off a redeye to Detroit, and sat down for breakfast in a diner with my mother. The TV was tuned to Fox News and every eye was glued to it.
Even though I'm in a blue state. Or what WAS a blue state. Jesus.
When I get back to San Francisco, the first thing I'm doing is volunteering for Obama's campaign. And I'm calling on every other Bay Area Democrat, liberal -- whoever believes in the big O -- to do the same.
This election is NOT OURS TO LOSE. We are the minority. We are the revolutionaries, in our tiny little radical city where gay marriage is legal and recycling is mandatory. Change comes through STRUGGLE. It will be hard won.
You're supposed to be in good shape, SF'ers. You know -- from riding your bikes everywhere and hiking and surfing and shit. So get off your asses and WORK!!!
