What's it like living in a liberal state? How are the social attitudes in a liberal state?
I lived in Vermont for 22 years before moving to the Florida Panhandle (Pensacola).I guess I never really appreciated the generally liberal attitude Vermont has until I moved here.My first week at my job, a guy came up behind me while I was with a black co-worker and said “hey, can you help me? i don’t want to talk to any black people.” It ended up being that he was joking and knew my coworker, but that wasn’t the kind of joke I ever grew up hearing. It wasn’t funny to me, at all.Racism is deeply ingrained here. It’s an unmentioned and unquestioned part of life, that many minorities either don’t bother to confront in public or just simply don’t notice.When Dylann Roof shot nine people in Charleston and sparked a debate about what the Confederate flag represents, Pensacola residents went to the Pensacola Graffiti Bridge to paint the flag and attempt to educate their fellow citizens on what they believed it meant. I learned that night that, as one person put it to me, “that flag means n*****s sit at the back of the bus.” I still want to believe I was being trolled, but sadly I cannot. That was never something I had ever imagined happening, much less hearing, growing up in Vermont.I remember growing up in a state that legalized gay marriage early, I remember race not being much of an issue to anybody, at least as a white person. I never heard anybody spitting racist garbage about a minority group growing up in a liberal state. In the panhandle it seems like it’s hard to go a week with such a thing.I was asked once if I believed in guns, because I’d need them when the refugees came here to wage jihad. That was just last winter.But as I learn more about racial disparities and racial boundaries, I learn my own liberal state dislikes the Sudanese refugees we house and employ. I have seen comments on local cititzen swear in ceremonies in VT that complain about the lack of legitimate immigrants, something these very people were finishing up the process of.I think in liberal states, Vermont at least, racism is less overt. I cannot recall a single homophobic experience in Vermont. Racism ails the entire country, everywhere you go, however. Seeing it in it’s unchallenged state has only enabled me to more accurately identify the hidden kind I thought didn’t exist in a liberal place.
Why are the liberal and conservative stereotypes contradicting?
Because they are not trying to be descriptive, they are trying to be insulting.
LIberals say conservatives are both redneck trailer trash and corporate executives. Which is it?
How about neither? I live in a nice middle class neighborhood and I don't work for any kind of corporation. Liberals can be so narrow-minded.
Why would the democrats leave their trash, yet the Tea Party left the National Mall spotless.?
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/one-nati... It seems the democratic party speaks with their actions (or lack of). Why would the democrats care so little about National lands and this Nation? Could it be their nanny state mentality? The Tea Party has even set the example for them to follow, yet to no avail. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con... 100 tons of garbage left from 0bama's inauguration.
Is Sarah Palin trailer park trash or ghetto?
She is the next VP
What are the disadvantages of National Parks?
1) They are very expensive. National parks take money from education, public defence, medicine and other uses that have more direct human benefits. 2) They serve as refuges for vermin, weeds, diseases and criminals. Such undesirable elemnts have a hard time surviving in agricultural land but they are readily harboured in wilderness reserves. 3) They contribute to a misconception that conservation can be achieved via reserves. This is clearly not the case, yet the very presence of National Parks and similar reserves directs both attention and funding away from more practical conservation efforts. 4) They encourage unnecessary interaction and conflict between humans and wildlife.
Why are there so many liberal hippie losers with no lives protesting our country into the ground?!?
Because they remember Vietnam, and they are determined to prevent it from happening again. But Iraq is not Vietnam, and they don't realize it but they are severely hindering this nation's ability to fight terrorism. They're misguided. And Doug, you son of a b****, don't throw around a word like "Nazi" so easily. Nazis killed six million of my people. This person just asked a question, one that deserves an answer.
Was it disrespectful to trash the National Mall on inauguration day?
Obama supporters threw 130,000 tons of trash on the ground. The National Mall is as close to sacred as any property in this nation gets. Porta potties were turned over, Condoms littered the ground, People threw cups all over the ground. This is a disgrace! What efforts would it take for people to carry their trash to a recycle bin or trash container? Was sexual acts in public necessary? People obviously mistook the inauguration as Woodstock. Obama's Speech mentioned picking ourselves up and dusting ourselves off but his followers and supporters can't even clean up after themselves! Is this what we have to look forward to for the next 4 years? Liberal democrats claim to be greener and more environmentally friendly and they left more trash behind than the hippies who attended Woodstock did!