Politics

How to recycle in rural Iowa

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If I lived in rural Iowa 🐄 and got a mailer from one of the democrats promoting gun control 🔫 I’d probably save it…

  1. And use it to toss behind the cows in the barn for bedding and absorbing up the pee and poop to be later spread with the manure spreader, 🐮 or maybe…
  2. Toss it out in the hog barn, let the hogs root around in it, shredding it into the mud and muck, 🐷 or maybe…
  3. Tape it up to an old politician’s lawn signs, use it for patterning your shotgun or plinking with your 22, 🔫 and then maybe…
  4. Save it for using to light the farm garbage pit. Dip it diesel or old motor oil, light it up, drop it in the pit. Let it burn! 🔥

Now that’s what I call recycling, ♻ although honestly most political mailers I get these days really don’t compost well 🥝 or even burn well 🚒 because they are glossy, coated with plastic and contain a lot of clay in the paper mix. 🤔Many urban paper programs take them for recycling but even then I doubt they’re very good for recovery.

Political Activism

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I used to be a lot more involved in political activism back in the day. But I’ve lost interest and have frankly been turned off by some much of the political ideology that goes along with it. I don’t like the idea of supporting groups that have only one limited world view on our country and are unwilling to see beyond what their group believes is right.

Maybe I’m too much of an iconoclast, too ready to jump ship when I only agree on seven out of ten points. Maybe I’m just too comfortable on where I stand today that I don’t feel like being involved with political movements is that important. Maybe loud and obnoxious protests aren’t my style.

Things could change in the Trump era. I like the man the lot but I am concerned with some of his policies and what they mean for the future of our country. Maybe I will be back out on the streets demanding change. Or maybe I’ll just go back in my fishing rod and shotgun, and forget about the world around me.

Capital Region 2020 Average Democratic Performance

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Capital Region 2020 Average Democratic Performance

Albany and inner-suburbs are pretty solidly blue while the country-side remains quite red. People think of New York as a blue state -- and in  many ways it's but you don't have to go far to get to the red country-side at least in 2020.