Derec, I missed your question about Experiment. Experiment is an area in the county, bordering on the city limits of Griffin. It was once a thriving community that had many textile mills. Now the mills have been torn down or are falling apart.
Yeah, not much textiles left in the US. Do you know where the name came from though?
Anyway, I am sort of off topic, but it does give one some idea as to the make up of the voters in Spalding. We have both areas of extreme poverty as well as areas of great wealth. Oddly enough, local politics are quite progressive when it comes to things like infrastructure, including parks, schools, etc.
Interesting.
I hope you're right about Stacey Abrams. She would do a lot of positive things for Georgia, including decriminalizing weed, and expanding M'caid. She might even support decriminalizing sex work.
I very much doubt that. What most Dems favor is the sexist Swedish model which is decriminalization for providers and increased criminalization for customers. That said, if Abrams were in favor of true decriminalization, I would even campaign for her.
At least I would hope so since the criminalization of sex work usually hurts the women who choose to work in that field.
It hurts everybody involved, customers and providers. The evil of the Swedish model is that it sees customers as enemies to be punished, instead of fellow human beings. If you prick us, do we not bleed?
I think policy should not pit one against the other.
Abrams is a very pragmatic politician who will accomplish things by taking different views into consideration. She's not the scary communist that the Republicans are trying to make her out to be, but I'm sure you already know that.
She is not a communist, obviously. But we will maybe see just how pragmatic vs. doctrinaire she is. Radfems are very influential in the modern Democratic Party, particularly the more "progressive" wing thereof.