Report from Main Street in metro Denver, Colorado
Today, I had occasion to visit the office of my insurance agent. He has been my agent for around 30 years or more. A long time, and in all honesty he's a good agent.
So, anyway I walked into the office and his wife is on the front desk. She is a nice lady, well into her 70s. They've made it a family business.
Her husband, our agent, was on another line so I engaged her in conversation. She is convinced immigrants are the root cause of all of America's troubles, Trump is misunderstood, Obama was terrible, Biden was forced to step down, betrayed by his own party, etc.
The whole litany. You all know.
Well, I'm an economist so I am quite capable of reeling off many facts and figures off the top of my head. When I told her that Trumpy killed the bipartisan border bill, which gave the GOP everything it wanted, increased agents and so on, she did not believe me. I then went on to talk about how genuinely good we are at data - we really do leave everyone else in the world in the dust when it comes to the scope and depth of the data we report - Census, BLS, etc.
I also mentioned shareholder primacy and told her about the fulcrum. Said that government isn't the enemy, but Wall Street and the billionaire parasites are.
If I'm honest, I kind of doubt I convinced her of anything. She's been thoughtlessly voting Republican for years because they are 'better for business.' Still, I may have planted a seed. I did mention how my granddaughters do not now have the same rights as their mothers fought for. That didn't seem to register.
Sigh. Lucky Harris and Walz are running a really, really effective campaign and putting out lots of stuff on social media to younger voters.
But I tried.
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My mom's maternal family had deep roots in Denver. She was born there.
Different Times:
My great great grandmother thought every woman should be able to vote for her husband as they did in Colorado.
She came out East and got arrested to help other women in America get the right to vote.
And now a woman of my mom's generation in CO is not even the least bit disturbed by the loss of Women's rights.
It's just a little over 100 years - and that woman is in the sunken place.
My Great Gramfeathers grew up on what is now Pearl Street - and heard first hand stories from Molly Brown of the Titanic when ahe was 8. We go back that far in Denver *Society*.
