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Vaishnav faced a slightly different issue when he wrote a story about recent budget cuts that have devastated rural public schools in the Northeast. He didn’t discuss policy directly but made parents aware of policy changes—which spurred many to write to their local school board members...
What’s gotten lost in the debate over tactics is a question that should be more important: what do we stand for? Consider a hypothetical that may not be too far from the truth. Let’s say rural Bush voters came out to support the President largely because of his stand on “moral values.” (This is what exit polls seem to show.) Let’s say “moral values” is a code for homophobia and opposition to a woman’s right to choose...
Most of the people I’ve spoken to since Nov. 2 don’t say we need to jettison core values to win rural America. The problem, they say, is not substance, but tone. Democrats, they say, are arrogant. But I think it’s a little disrespectful to suggest that rural Americans voted for Bush because Democrats sounded snobby. Rural Americans aren’t angry because Democrats support equal rights with a certain tone. They’re angry because we support equal rights. And even if our nominee runs away from social liberalism...
...want one group’s intolerant moral code to govern the nation. We can only have this discussion if Democrats have the guts to take strong stands on these issues and bring the rest of the country to us. We need to have enough respect for rural America’s intelligence to engage them in discussion, rather than changing the subject every time “moral values” comes...
...Solid South.” But because we were willing to stand up, this nation had a discussion that has moved the country forward and is still moving the country forward today. If we stand up for what we believe, we may lose some of rural America—at least for a while—but we will start to move America forward, and we will ensure that there is still a voice for human dignity in this country. I hope the price of standing up isn’t losing at the polls...