Yes. It appears the new rules and definitions have left us behind lol.
Neo-libs =/= classical libs
I have some classic liberal leaningsā¦ neo-libs are scum of the earth
Holy moly. Your town actually sounds worse than what they do in the Slimy Newsom state!
Thatās the cornerstone of politics since the beginning of politics. From Melos to Hiroshima. It predates our simplistic notions of left and right just like kill them all and let God sort them out.
Including arts and leisures.
Im a moderateā¦
Liberal on somethings conservative on otherās.
I call this the common sense approach. Only way to do it since labels/meanings are constantly shifting these days.
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The blame game is starting.
I interpret that differently. I see it as being pragmatic and looking at each issue on its own and using common sense to deal with it. I think most Americans think that way. Itās the political parties and their lackeys in the media who keep telling us weāre all polarized and one step away from killing one another. The idea that Iām going to hate someone else because a self serving, corrupt, lying, degenerate politician told me to, is crazy.
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Are they life long residents?
We shouldnāt forget that a man was killed, not the would be assassin, but someone attending the rally. I havenāt heard any of the people who said they wished the guy had a better aim mention any condolences to the family of man who was killed. Maybe they have, but I havenāt seen it.
Some, but not all. Tonight they are working hard on finding places to put a low barrier homeless shelter, assuring each other that it is unfair to homeless people to mention that many of them are drug-addicted sociopaths guaranteed to bring ruin to whatever neighborhood they are enabled in. Rationalizing why they can and should be placed near schools and parks, all while working under the assumption that people simply must be allowed to shoot up in public.
Maine is past the point of rolling any of this back, in my opinion. They have the bodies and the law allows them to cheat. Game over, at least for a really long time.
#trump2024
I ask because I believe the town I live is on a downward spiral. Thereās a town nearby that was very nice place to live and raise a family. It had a strong middle and upper middle class and working class (mostly immigrants who brought the best of their cultures and retained the identity of their origins while also assimilating) but as certain demographic changes occurred and were left unchecked even as the signs of a growing problem was becoming evident, it is now a horrible place to raise a family. The school district is one of the worst in the state. There are drug addicted stumblebums wandering around. A homeless encampment. Domestic violence is up. Itās not a big city but it has big city problems. I see my town going in the same direction. It starts with the little things like drug addicts and the homeless approaching you for money. In the schools, there are more fights and of course, lower test scores. Anyway, the mayor is not a life long resident, for example, so I believe that these political interlopers who have no deep rooted connection to the town they chose to run for office in, tend to not understand what made the town appealing to residents in the first place. They werenāt raised here and they probably arenāt planning on raising their families here. The mayor signed off on a real estate tax hike. Residents gave enough pushback that they had to scrap it. But itās just a matter of time. Itās like creeping death.
Lewiston was a normal, unremarkable New England college town when I moved here and stayed that way for a long time. Our immigrants arenāt the problem, our first wave Somalians have been here longer than I have. Itās the policy makers and the rubes who equate compassion and virtue with voting Democrat. Plus all of the cheating.
Right now Iām watching a 71 year old man who has lived here his whole life get cut off by the Mayor after he objected to the multi-language voting guides all over the polling location and the shameless election theft last Tuesday.
The next guy is railing into them about their rule changes to only allow 15 minutes of public comment and sending all emails into an invisible black hole that none of the public can read.
Itās a total shit show, and the town is now an expensive, increasingly violent dump with abysmal schools. A woman I know is being intimidated by crooks after a ādealā was cut and they now know she filmed him savagely beating a woman on a porch and dragging her inside in front of children waiting for the bus.
#trump2024
In the town I referenced, the immigrants were all nuclear family oriented. The downward trend started when there was a growing influx of single mothers. Once they get established, the shitty boyfriends and future deadbeat dads follow.
Yeah we have lots of single moms and deadbeat dads too. The sudden interest in round 3 of the school budget vote came from very recent arrivals. Hundreds of people being ushered in to take our money to fund further dysfunction is astonishing to witness in person.
I came in right at the end of the 90s. What characterized a 1990s liberal?
A liberal education enabled by being open minded towards experiences and perspectives that werenāt your own.
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If Iām not mistaken - please correct me if Iām wrong - you live in Maine which is the safest state in the US with the lowest crime rate - one third of the national average - thatās slowly but consistently dropping y-o-y for three decades now (what was it like during Bush Sr. if things are bad now?). And yet apocalyptic fantasies about the imminent societal breakdown should the dreaded āothersā not lose thrive.
I guess your emotional truth is more representative of the lived experience than data.