What Is The Real Hoosier Character?

Do Mellencamp and Sheila Kennedy represent an Indiana now gone?

“That Was Not Hoosier Hospitality”: Why John Mellencamp Left Pacers Game Embarrassed To Be From Indiana (American Songwriter)

The Appalling Pastor Beckwith (Sheila Kennedy)

It’s bad enough that we have to share the general population with stunted and mean-spirited people like Micah Beckwith, but I find it infuriating  that they currently infest Indiana’s government. It isn’t just Beckwith–although he is definitely the poster child for these theocratic misfits. Todd Rokita and Jim Banks are “out and proud” Christian Nationalists, ready and eager to jettison the Bill of Rights and spit on 200+ years of American progress. Indiana government hasn’t been this retrograde since the Klan years. It’s no wonder the state has a persistent brain drain.

What is so depressing is that a majority of Hoosiers voted for these hateful people. I can’t even blame the gerrymandering that has given us our embarrassing legislature–these dreadful people ran statewide.

For my part, I intend to embrace the “Rainbow Beast.” It’s the least I can do.

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