reply to post by loam
I agree... Title I write before the Thread and Usually hate my title by the time i'm 3 pages in and have better defined and grasped what I am trying
to say.
On that point I was coming off of a Palin Bash thread...
And what was in my mind at first was...
"What is the downside of a conservative life"
As a youth like I said I'd have hated a Palin, taking away my fun lol
So I was thinking largely in lifestyle, allot of what we call Liberal leads to no darn good, Urban life as an Adult especially the older you get
stinks compared to Rural life if your not well off, you have to Fear people, you have all sorts of situations that could be dangerous from things as
simple as crossing the street... you don't use the night life anymore and housing can be 5x higher and sometimes you end up with a bit of bad luck on
Just SS, it limits the number of kids you can afford to have is less healthy you have to work more in your life to afford it and get to spend less...
and your odds of being alone in old age jump dramatically from these things...
And i'm not sure what these guys even campaigned on.... Biden was running around talking about Unions and factories? WTH?
What factories? What unions?
An old person in NY can't even have true rent control anymore
So at 40, I honestly dislike greatly having an Inner City oriented president
For starters with the Internet the time is done anyway, the City is a cultural mecca these days but not a Job Mecca, not a Child bearing Mecca and Not
particularly safe, affordable or comfortable... Unless your young or well off
So I think the Palins of America wanting to preserve things in the Rural area... I think they have a really Valid point...
You have to address life...
Like you said we all want the same thing to be Loved...
And i'm sorry for a Hetero Caucasian... Love is not something your likely to develop allot of anymore... Certainly not child bearing Love...
religion will be squatted upon mostly and values and community where 20 yrs ago a place like NY was a great example of community that's been almost
entirely eroded...
And while most people are pretty cool, yeah... Race is going to be an issue too, more than once my whiteness has been assaulted on the Subway, kind of
hard to "find love" when your demographic and ethnicity is the major minority unless that's specifically what your looking for
So will being Liberal make you unhappy when your older... NO
But the life choices you make, your likely to find unappealing when your older, that's all.
Last time I was home... I saw an older woman Hit by a Bus On Nostrand Ave...
It went 6 blocks before it stopped and she died there with 2 missing limbs...
I heard a comment... from some teens and allot of teens are jerks no matter what Ethnicity
But one said to the other " another white woman down "
That woman might have been the biggest Liberal activist in the 60's she might have had a soul of Gold or maybe not...
The point is, in that environment, what was great and cultural when she was young, was not a community and safety when she was older...
The point being...
There is no reason to eliminate or alter or interfere with small towns in the south, or anywhere else, be they Black Baptist or White Hill Billy or
Christian conservative...
There is something to be said for community, family and values... being among people like yourself who share your beliefs and values, particularly in
the raising of children and in old age
And a Palin...
Wants that...
And it's not bad... it's a good thing, Family, Identity
Having a Place to go HOME to is nice and bar NONE every single person I know from NY has lost that forever...fled to Jersey, long commutes,
unaffordable, selling the family home...
Every friend I have is out of reach from my youth without facebook, where once it was an incredibly tight community... No ONE will be going "HOME"
for Xmas... Zero continuity of life and family.
So being Liberal is Great
Just know... that if you choose that path and stay with it... your going to loose Family, your going to loose your neighborhood...
Be it Race immigration, just greedy developers and shifty politicians... that life is kind of transient, it's not stable, you never own everything,
you might not even be able to be buried when you die with your family...
Matter NOT when your 22
Matters allot when your 60
Palins Life... maybe the religion is all a bunch of Crock... but it offers Tradition, Maybe a place like Alaska isn't exciting or cultural but it
offers Permanency and Family
And I don't see why under the guise of the Liberal agenda these places should come under the norms or regulations or manners of the Inner
cities...
In any event... it's a healthier, longer lasting life... and in reality if it's Love and Acceptance we are looking for ... well, in the end a Nice
town where people share your beliefs and values and your family all lives is the easiest way to get that.
Not for everyone maybe... but i'd say for most...
So what does Plain represent that is under such hell fire of an attack?
Perhaps the fear that the other end of the spectrum will raise it's ugly head?
Maybe, but not if we don't wreck their dreams and beliefs like in the past.