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Would I be safe in assuming that most of the following professions are not held in high esteem by conservatives as a whole?
Journalists
Scientists
Professors
Then you would be wrong. There are many professions that people telecommute. A lot of my fellow computer programmers drive more than an hour each way so they can live in rural areas.
Then you would be wrong. There are many professions that people telecommute. A lot of my fellow computer programmers drive more than an hour each way so they can live in rural areas.
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What does telecommuting have to do with what I wrote?
Location: Live:Downtown Phoenix, AZ/Work:Greater Los Angeles, CA
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Did I say ALL urban areas? No? I said CA cesspools. But if that offends you as a Phoenix AZ type I can't help that. Course there ain't hardly anywhere rural or urban anymore untouched by the turds in the tank. Not even the wildlands that butt up twixt my spread and the rez.
Seems like a guy can't ride out anywhere without coming across discarded LP tanks, cold pill boxes and huge piles of matchbooks and boxes. So bad anymore that I feel I need to be armed more on the millions of acres of BLM that's my front yard than I do in the flippin' city. Least in the city there may be witnesses about that might stay some vermins trigger finger.
A dry wash 60 miles from nowhere has no such constraints and horse and rider can mysteriously disappear with nobody the wiser. At any rate, seems we each are inclined to stay in our respective cesspools, so no harm no foul.
Would I be safe in assuming that most of the following professions are not held in high esteem by conservatives as a whole?
Journalists
Scientists
Professors
No, you wouldn't. These are all honorable positions... when the holder of that position is honorable and acts with integrity.
Unfortunately that's not the case for many people holding those positions. A lot of "journalists", for example, are completely driven by a political agenda. Sadly the same has become true of quite a few climate scientists.
It doesn't matter who we're talking about. If someone makes ridiculous statements, we should cut them off and not pay any attention to them. There are so many idiots around the country getting attention and lip service these days (even saying absurd things just for attention), and we foolishly reward them. We're part of the problem.
Better check on that. Last I looked, slavery wasn't legal in Pennsylvania or New England. Several more quickly came around and by the start of the Civil War, slave holding states were in the minority.
Furthermore, the writers of the Constitution knew that slave holding areas would soon be in the minority and therefore wrote the "a slave equal 3/5ths. of a person" clause into into it for the purpose of getting the Southerners who were already in the minority to go along. The South needed that artificial white population boost to even begin to keep up. That, and the electoral college.
For a republic, the US is sure unevenly representative. Think of how many people a senator from Wyoming represents and compare it to how many a senator from California represents. The electoral college works on the same principal: unequal representation. Boosting rural and slave states' representation in Congress was the original reason.
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