I'm embarrassed to say I lived in North Carolina for 23 years. Both my sons were born and raised there and live there happily still.
My older one is starting to get politically involved, and I can't say I agree with his decision to support the GOP frontrunner. But that's certainly his right, and I support it.
I think, though, it's a bit symptomatic of what's going wrong in that state.
British Prime Minister David Cameron said it best this morning when asked about North Carolina's new law allowing legal discrimination against members of the LGBT community. Cameron said that his country's goal was "to eliminate all discrimination."
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| It's North Carolina on the phone. They're not too happy with something you said about them. |
That can't be said of North Carolina's new law, or a virtually identical one passed in Mississippi.
The crazy thing is, I actually agree with what Donald Trump said yesterday about North Carolina's law, which, among other things, mandates that people use the public restroom of their sex at birth.
He said that things had been working fine. That, as far as he knew, there hadn't been any problems,
so what were they trying to fix?
Trump is now being roundly criticized for this statement by Ted Cruz, and Cruz actually seems to be gloating over what he perceives as some kind of conservative "gotcha" moment.
But that gotcha moment carries with it the admission that Cruz's position is one of being a proud bigot against a rather large segment of our society.
David Cameron is right about which direction the world should be moving.
Any kind of discrimination has always come out on the wrong side of history, and I'm certain both of the Democrats see it this way. Perhaps even Donald Trump does as well.
Institutionalized discrimination against an entire race of people was this country's greatest shame. Trying to do it again is its next.
One candidate, the so-called GOP mainstream one, actually supports it.
Pretty damn scary.
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