Blue spot in a red state

Democrats are not exactly a dying breed in Mississippi, but we’re definitely outnumbered. Why, I have no idea.

Mississippi is one of the poorest states in the nation. In the past five years, Republicans here have:

• Kicked thousands of elderly low-income people off Medicaid
• Limited an individual’s access to the courts by capping how much negligent companies/doctors/individuals must pay if they are wronged
• Underfunded public education
• Refused the will of the people by repeatedly killing bills that would cut the grocery tax in half (Mississippi has one of the highest grocery taxes in the nation)
• Cut funds for the Mississippi Department of Transportation

Nonetheless, many people here — like many people everywhere — have bought into the misconception that if you are Christian or have conservative social values that you must be a Republican. That’s a sham of an idea.

Still, Republicans are masters at labeling things and then persuading people to blindly follow those labels.

In this spot, I’ll explore political happenings from time to time. Don’t expect straight partisan ramblings, however. Republicans are not without good ideas, and there are a few other political movements that don’t fit neatly into a two-party system.

So this kicks things off for the Politics section of my blog. It’s not much more than a space-holder, but at least it serves the purpose of giving you an idea on where I stand in politics and what I plan to blog about in this space.