I’m from Missouri, the Show Me State.
Born and raised here in Heartland America.
It’s an okay State, I suppose, as States go—
Home of Mark Twain, Walt Disney, Walter
Cronkite, Maya Angelou and Harry Truman.
It’s also the infamous place noted in history
for the dreaded Dred Scott Decision and the
Missouri Compromise. In the Civil War it
was generally considered to be split between
the North and the South. Even today some
150-years later it has white supremacy and
segregationist social and political leanings.
Currently its two Senators are conservative
Republicans who predominantly and unfairly
represent the ideology of their party and the
White Ruling Class majority.
As I see it, the State motto “Show Me” should
imply a yearning for the truth (prove it), and for
Christ’s sake, show me some human decency
and honesty, attributes, our two notorious US
Senators, Blunt and Hawley, seem to lack in spades.
Perhaps in my old age and waning days, truth and
honesty from our elected officials is expecting too
much.
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Chris Hanch 12-31-2020
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