LAST EDITED ON Aug-26-15 AT 07:27PM (MST)[p]>I'm not sure I'm much of
>a democrat, but this isn't
>about party politics.
>
>The Californians I know are either
>radical one way or the
>other, that's my point.
> We have enough troubles battling
>the radical right who want
>to sell public land, privatize
>everything and pollute and industrialize
>the rest of the west.
> And the then we
>have the other side who
>want to romanticize the wolves,
>live in a fantasy world
>with no violence, where meat
>is manufactured by wal-mart and
>their Starbucks money comes from
>a trust fund.
>
>Stay home Californians, please .
>
>.
Piper,
I've read enough here at MM over at the last decade to know you live in Wyoming, your state has been often voted as America's most conservative state.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/167144/wyoming-residents-conservative-liberal.aspx
A liberal living in Wyoming must be every bit as miserable as a conservative living in California.
In an effort to avoid intellectual dishonesty, I can actually see your point of view Piper.
California is overwhelmingly and outrageously liberal, democrats dictate most every way of life here, they are also overwhelmingly anti hunting, anti trapping and anti gun, along with all of the other disgusting classic liberal characteristics (certainly my opinion
).
When people flee California, it would seem logical that they are either bringing those liberal characteristics with them or they are fleeing the radical democratic tyranny of California hoping to fit into a conservative enclave such as Wyoming or Idaho searching for a polar opposite.
I've lived in Northern California all of my life, in that time I've watched liberal democrats chip away at virtually everything I value.
I watched them ban leg hold trapping, lead bullets, the hunting of non endangered mountain lions, they've banned the use of hounds to pursue bobcats and bears, they are right now pushing forward a ban on lead fishing weights, they banned the box trapping of bobcats.
We have hyper restrictive regulations on most everything imaginable, from gas cans, building permits, vehicle registration, we have "spare the air days" in the dead of winter where you can't use your fireplace or woodstove, the taxes on everything from gasoline to real estate are strangling the life out of us, we have a liberal governor pushing a colossal clusterphuckkkkk called the bullet train, a high speed rail system that will cost tax payers in excess of 98 Billion dollars!
(that number is so freaking outrageous that I need to post a link to support the claim!)
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/l...Billion-What-Else-That-Can-Buy-133041823.html
So, I concede my friend.
You want to label me as a radical, I will proudly wear that as a badge of honor.
I'm certain that your left leaning mindset is considered radical by an overwhelming majority of conservative Wyoming residents.
Being unwanted or disliked by left leaning democrats is what I've lived with for over fifty years and I'm comfortable with that as it is my normal, however I suspect that you might not be as liberal as many here have painted you and I also suspect that I'm not quite as radical as you might paint me as well.
I've lived long enough to know that not everyone in Wyoming is a great person and that everyone from California isn't an arsehole...
