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Could I Have Said “No” to Television in 1957?
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by James Wallace Harris, 1/20/26 When you think about it, staring at a
screen for hours on end seems weird. We exist in an immense
three-dimensional realit...
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It's just so loony I can't even...What are papers in Republican stronghold like Nebraska saying? How can any America think this is a good thing? Do Republicans really hate the poor and minorities that much that they are like "yeah, I won't have health coverage but neither will minorities! What a win!"
I don't get the local paper here, John, and I usually just check the headlines online, unless I find something I want to - or need to - read. But it seems to me that the paper mostly just ignores this stuff.
Nebraskans are going to vote Republican in almost any circumstance, except sometimes in Lincoln and Omaha. (Lincoln has a Democratic mayor and majority Democratic city council.) For statewide office, it's frequently hard to get a Democrat to even run, since it will be almost a guaranteed defeat.
Of course, the Republicans control district boundaries, so they make sure to keep Democrats a distinct minority in the Unicameral (even though that's technically a nonpartisan office). But they hardly need to bother.
Unlike Southern states which are very red, but still have some chance of flipping, Nebraska doesn't have a large minority population. Nebraska's politicians might criticize Trump, but they'll still march in lockstep with every other Republican.
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