Voters in Montana on Tuesday delivered a major blow to big moneyed interests by overwhelmingly passing a ballot initiative barring corporate cash from political campaigns in the state.
With 87% of votes counted as of Wednesday morning, Montana Constitutional Initiative 194 has ++received++ support from more than 65% of voters, with just 35% registering opposition.
As a child of the 90s in the midwest, I can look back and see how my optics have transitioned on gay people. I was never hateful, but I definitely had and aversion. I don’t think it was a conscious decision necessarily to change but just being exposed to more demographics once I moved out of my small town and the normalization of it in media naturally changed my perception. When guys kissed on TV before it was kind of jarring and ‘wrong’. Now I get happy when I see same sex couples irl and on TV.
I’m not a fan of PDA in general, but for many years now it’s no different who’s smooching who.
I think that the more normalized it gets, the less people will care even in the most bigoted places. Eventually everyone will personally know someone that is gay or trans, and it will just stop mattering to them as they realize their just people. I wish it were faster, but it wasn’t so long ago that same sex marriage was legalized and there’s been a lot of positive change and acceptance. Generational bias takes a long time to change out.
Ya these things take time but I actually think thats one of the positive things associated with that demographic. They’re definitely breeders which means many children which means they are more statisticaly likely than not to end up with direct exposure to that which they most detest and “fear” and over time it’ll just be so much easier to stop giving a shit
There is enormous social leverage in needing to avoid scaring away your own children and close relatives. I will never not judge someone who is missing someone in their family photos and their excuse is some attempted face-saving bullshit like “they drifted from thuh Lord” or some bullshit