Those of us living here are aware of how bad it is - but why is it ignored nationally? We hear about Texas and Florida but never Indiana - I feel like we live on an island that nobody talks about.
Makes me crazy Pamela! We are just a extreme as Mississippi, Texas and Florida..our legislators and elected officials mimic their laws and hang out with their folk.....Todd Rokita especially. He has been signing on to election denying lawsuits penned by the Texas governor for 4 years..and yet we elected him again!
And the worst part of having an attorney general with radical views is that he will not support the citizens- he will always choose the side of extremists and our civil rights will deteriorate even faster. Blue states are activating their attorney generals to fight unconstutional orders by the federal government but there will be no help from Rokita when our rights are violated. He really needs to lose that law license, as he has demonstrated an inability to follow it.
My son wants me to move to Maryland. I have to say visiting there is like going to another country. No single use plastics, rain basins, lots of green space and walkways and healthy people living healthy lifestyles. Not to mention Jamie Raskin!
If I could suggest another book to read that is very relevant, it's Make No Mistake, which you can find here on Substack at juliewise.substack.com
It's a novel I wrote in 2019 about a corrupt American president, his billionaire cronies and their dismantling of democracy starting with women's rights.
I started releasing chapters on Substack a month ago because everything I had written about in the novel was showing up in news headlines (like the criminalization of abortion, the monitoring of miscarriages, a "baby bonus" for women having multiple children).
I am sharing it (for free) to readers because it is a call to action and all the resistance ideas in the book have been used with success elsewhere. I am hoping the story and characters will motivate readers with a sense of what is possible.
It would be a good addition to the bookclub idea you mention in your post (and in Make No Mistake, a network of book clubs is a key factor in the resistance movement).
That sounds perfect. We are working on a 'democracy summer' campaign for diverse grassroots organizations to sign onto...self-organizing and each organization add their own creativity, but have a consistent theme across events all summer. Maybe billboards, painted barns, book clubs, democracy bbqs, small town forums discussing the impact of the the cuts, tariffs, vouchers, lousy legislation on everyday hoosiers. Your book/substack sounds perfect. Am so grateful to each of you!
I grew up in the north central Indiana region that had given itself to the Klan 40 years prior. Those “Hoosier values” were there then and they remain. See Timothy Egan’s Fever in the Heartland for the familiar rhetoric of white supremacy in the contemporary voices of our one party legislature and executive branch.
Indeed, but when we had a more representative statehouse and local governance we were able to keep those KKK values more underground, at least not codified into our laws. Now they run the zoo! Thanks for your comment and for reading H4D! Share it with those who may be a bit outside your 'bubble', we try to write it with a moderate tone.
Those of us living here are aware of how bad it is - but why is it ignored nationally? We hear about Texas and Florida but never Indiana - I feel like we live on an island that nobody talks about.
Makes me crazy Pamela! We are just a extreme as Mississippi, Texas and Florida..our legislators and elected officials mimic their laws and hang out with their folk.....Todd Rokita especially. He has been signing on to election denying lawsuits penned by the Texas governor for 4 years..and yet we elected him again!
And the worst part of having an attorney general with radical views is that he will not support the citizens- he will always choose the side of extremists and our civil rights will deteriorate even faster. Blue states are activating their attorney generals to fight unconstutional orders by the federal government but there will be no help from Rokita when our rights are violated. He really needs to lose that law license, as he has demonstrated an inability to follow it.
I hate to say run, but if appropriate then move to Illinois.
My son wants me to move to Maryland. I have to say visiting there is like going to another country. No single use plastics, rain basins, lots of green space and walkways and healthy people living healthy lifestyles. Not to mention Jamie Raskin!
If I could suggest another book to read that is very relevant, it's Make No Mistake, which you can find here on Substack at juliewise.substack.com
It's a novel I wrote in 2019 about a corrupt American president, his billionaire cronies and their dismantling of democracy starting with women's rights.
I started releasing chapters on Substack a month ago because everything I had written about in the novel was showing up in news headlines (like the criminalization of abortion, the monitoring of miscarriages, a "baby bonus" for women having multiple children).
I am sharing it (for free) to readers because it is a call to action and all the resistance ideas in the book have been used with success elsewhere. I am hoping the story and characters will motivate readers with a sense of what is possible.
It would be a good addition to the bookclub idea you mention in your post (and in Make No Mistake, a network of book clubs is a key factor in the resistance movement).
That sounds perfect. We are working on a 'democracy summer' campaign for diverse grassroots organizations to sign onto...self-organizing and each organization add their own creativity, but have a consistent theme across events all summer. Maybe billboards, painted barns, book clubs, democracy bbqs, small town forums discussing the impact of the the cuts, tariffs, vouchers, lousy legislation on everyday hoosiers. Your book/substack sounds perfect. Am so grateful to each of you!
I grew up in the north central Indiana region that had given itself to the Klan 40 years prior. Those “Hoosier values” were there then and they remain. See Timothy Egan’s Fever in the Heartland for the familiar rhetoric of white supremacy in the contemporary voices of our one party legislature and executive branch.
Indeed, but when we had a more representative statehouse and local governance we were able to keep those KKK values more underground, at least not codified into our laws. Now they run the zoo! Thanks for your comment and for reading H4D! Share it with those who may be a bit outside your 'bubble', we try to write it with a moderate tone.