This is a comment I typed in response to a post in the Florida Women for Harris group. And it could just as easily apply to being open & upfront about one’s environmental beliefs and practices.
The original post showed a photo of a packed meeting of Harris/Walz supporters in The Villages. A place that has long been assumed to be a total red enclave. And yet supposedly the villages has the largest Democratic club in Florida! Who knew?
My comment:
What a great illustration of something I’m seeing statewide. That maybe we just haven’t been upfront and vocal enough with the people around us. Maybe we’ve been almost like leading secret lives, putting ourselves in the closet, for years and years. So a lot of us individuals think we are an isolated island in our town or area.
(Myself, I am fortunate to know lots of people of my social and political stripe. I always have found my people, wherever I’ve lived. I could not have survived otherwise.)
Then at a time like this, we suddenly find out we are not alone, and never were.
Our culture isn’t good about prioritizing forming community. (In other times and places, not forming/finding community was not an option; a person could not survive without it.)