How To Avoid Rich Liberals In Oregon (Portland, Eugene: YMCA, colleges)

[skinem]

To answer the OP, generally to avoid rich liberals, go to eastern Oregon. In many places you'll not only avoid the liberal, but the rich as well!

[CCCVDUR]

Originally Posted by Fiddlehead

Well, ok. Those viewpoints would be very unpopular in Ashland, but you are right, probably quite popular in Roseburg. But I think a feisty anti-preservationist (Gifford Pinchot vs. John Muir type) would be very healthy for a liberal Oregon town. I personally find the preservationist leanings of many Oregon liberals to be thinly-guised NIMBYism. "I sold a tract home in Santa Cruz and bought my McMansion with patagonian wood floors backing up to public lands, so you better not log on them!" Challenging us to consider a more healthy view of local production of resources and jobs would be valuable, but as I said, probably not popular. Environmental "protection" groups are like ticks on a hound here. We have rich people from elsewhere giving money to environmental groups staffed by kids from elsewhere shutting down resource extraction by the people who were born here. I am not saying the incomers are not right, but socially it appears that they are reaching across the plate of the locals. Not a recipe for trust or harmony.

Oh no! I'm no candidate for Roseburg and no-anti-preservationist! Libertarians are further to the left on social issues than Democrats! I'm a Henry David Thoreau preservationist, like Randal O'Toole of the Thoreau Institute in Camp Sherman, Oregon (The Thoreau Institute). He's perhaps a "Libertarian Environmentalist" who helps protect the environment using economically sustainable solutions. That's a big difference from Republicans who sometimes do not appreciate plant and animal habitats. I'm totally against all herbicides, pesticides, and any other environmental contaminants. I think we can increase logging, mining, and ranching in sustainable ways, to help Oregon's economy.

Originally Posted by skinem

To answer the OP, generally to avoid rich liberals, go to eastern Oregon. In many places you'll not only avoid the liberal, but the rich as well!

I'm just referring to self-righteous Rich Liberals that you find in Boulder, Flagstaff, Santa Fe, etc. that exclude outsiders.

[Fiddlehead]

Originally Posted by skinem

To answer the OP, generally to avoid rich liberals, go to eastern Oregon. In many places you'll not only avoid the liberal, but the rich as well!

Haha! Sounds good to me...

[Fiddlehead]

Originally Posted by Minervah

True. It was a reflection of the times when folk music or psuedo folk music depending upon how much of a purist one was, was popilar. It was sung tongue-in-cheek. Give a listen to get the flavor of it.

Lala Song Player - Merry Minuet by The Kingston Trio

Hold the phones! I kind of liked that song, in a nostalgic, cold-war, apocalyptic sort of way. Until I realized it might also appeal .....to..gasp.....RICH LIBERALs!!!!
....aaaaaauuuuuuggggg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Minervah]

Originally Posted by Fiddlehead

Hold the phones! I kind of liked that song, in a nostalgic, cold-war, apocalyptic sort of way. Until I realized it might also appeal .....to..gasp.....RICH LIBERALs!!!!
....aaaaaauuuuuuggggg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh Noooooooo! What have I done?!!

I had better do my anti-rich-liberal chant to make amends.

[arcticracer]

So what is wrong with being a Liberal? If you want to avoid them, Oregon is a tough place to accomplish that.

[skinem]

Originally Posted by arcticracer

So what is wrong with being a Liberal? If you want to avoid them, Oregon is a tough place to accomplish that.

Not in half the state it isn't...in fact, in some areas, people have driven for miles just in hopes of catching glimpses of one upon hearing one has gotten lost and wandered in, usually seeking a tofu restaurant. Seeing one can be so memorable it is often the mental landmark when reminiscing..."You remember when the school burned, Bob! It was about 5 months after we saw that liberal! Little Suzy was able to catch a quick picture of him in his Volvo before he spooked and ran...all you could see were elbows and Birkenstocks!"

I hear liberals have cooties...

[karlsch]

Originally Posted by skinem

To answer the OP, generally to avoid rich liberals, go to eastern Oregon. In many places you'll not only avoid the liberal, but the rich as well!

I wish you wouldn’t tell CCCVDUR these things. It might make him want to move over here and we don’t have the patience for him. We have enough problems with the price of hay and the economy. You tolerant rich liberals can find a home for him. Keep him on your side of the mountains, please.

[Fiddlehead]

Originally Posted by skinem

Not in half the state it isn't...in fact, in some areas, people have driven for miles just in hopes of catching glimpses of one upon hearing one has gotten lost and wandered in, usually seeking a tofu restaurant. Seeing one can be so memorable it is often the mental landmark when reminiscing..."You remember when the school burned, Bob! It was about 5 months after we saw that liberal! Little Suzy was able to catch a quick picture of him in his Volvo before he spooked and ran...all you could see were elbows and Birkenstocks!"

I hear liberals have cooties...

The he/she (?) did drop some sort of rolled up mat. It was great for field dressing that buck, but always smelled funny, like some sort of coffee drink. Fed it to the hogs. They loved it.....

[Fiddlehead]

Originally Posted by Minervah

Oh Noooooooo! What have I done?!!

I had better do my anti-rich-liberal chant to make amends.

Glad to be your anti-liberal guru, repeat after me....

Volvos are for Swedish porn-addicts oooohhhhhmm
Birkenstocks cause fornication oooohhhmmm
Miso soup is evil ooooooohhhhmmmm
No.....Bamaaaaahhh Ooooohhhhmmm
No.....JonStewart Ooooohhhhhmmmm
Sarah Palin is presidential ooohhhmmmm
Tofu is satanic oohhhhmmmm
Lattes are cause fornication ooohhhmmmm
Lars Larson is lucid and Churchillian ooohhhmmm
Global warming is for losers....oooohhhmmm
Kingston Trio never went to Bob Jones University..evil...oooohhhmmm

Feel better? I knew you would..