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You are clearly to drunk on anger to post anything of any sort of substance. Eat some bread, sleep it off, and try again tomorrow?
Nope, no drinking or anger here just cold hard facts about the sort of people who get involved with violent racial supremist groups. I see you can't refute the substance of what I posted and that's why you had to resort to changing the subject. That's ok because given the undertones of your posts here I think everyone knows just how much faith to put in anything you post.
Maybe they plan massive tax increases and massive social spending cuts and expect people to go ballistic. Angry people and guns make for some scaredy cat politicians.
No problem, if it sounds good to you. Check out their website. If you like what you see, sign the agreement, cough up the cash, and pack up the pickup. Welcome to Idaho!
In a weird way, "effete Northeast liberal" that I am, I secretly root for these kind of projects (provided it's not actually a community that roams the countryside burning crosses and terrorizing folks, naturally). It reminds me, paradoxically, of feminist Marge Piercy's (somewhat ham-fisted) sci-fi novel Woman At The Edge of Time, where a woman travels into a utopian future world where people of any race/creed can choose to live in communities modeled on various ethnic/social models, including a group which practices (if I'm not misremembering) all the rites of Hasidism!
Although there's a lot of diversity in the US, sometimes I wish each state in the US was radically different, and you could have the chance to visit them, rate their success or failures, talk to the "natives" about their beliefs, etc. I'd be curious to see, for example, how a truly libertarian state might function. I mean, my cultural values are somewhat different from the average Mormon, yet I'm really glad a place like Salt Lake City exists --- though I'm pretty sure I don't want to live there!
So keep shooting those guns of yours and building the bedsheet fort of your dreams, you crazy patriots, you! Keep America weird!
America's once wide diversity is disappearing. If you were to visit Salt Lake City, you would see just another metroplex. Even the rural southern half of the state is pretty much like other sparsely populated agricultural areas all over the country. The only differences are the terrain, the scenery, and the fading heritages. Speech varies all over, so the most unique thing about most of Utah is it's singular accent.
There are no Libertarian states out here in the west, but there are many pockets of Libertarianism. The one thing folks from the 'east' (out here, anyone east of Denver is from the east) don't understand is the vast distances. Trips are spoken of in hours, not miles; a trip to the grocery store can be an 8 hour undertaking, with only 1 hour actually spent in the store.
Remoteness is a real pleasant thought for folks who are in the middle of urbanity, but once a person is actually living in it, people simply don't realize how different the life actually is.
I had a relative who had a degree in English, but made his living as a sheepherder. He wrote a lot of poetry to pass the time. Here is one:
SOLITUDE
An eagle flies through empty air
Silence, stillness, everywhere
Not a soul to be found
In all this empty ground.
It's a hell of a theme to write about
For those who've never tried it out.
Sounds like hell. Perhaps the gun lovers would like this type of thing. Living under an HOA controlled neighborhood myself . . . it sure ain't the land of the 'free'. Someone tells me what kind of fence to have; how high, what kind of wood, and the boundaries. Someone tells when when to cut down and tree and exactly what kind of tree I have to replace it with (and when). And I'm living in a house I OWN and not a concrete block.
Yeah, these freedom loving Americans are going to LOVE this community!
It's a good idea. It keeps a whole bunch of wacko idiots in one place where they can be watched.
You're line of thinking scares me. Just because they're whacko's doesn't mean that they should be watched. And who's to say thast those doing the 'watching" are just as big of whackos?
Sounds like hell. Living under an HOA controlled neighborhood myself . . . it sure ain't the land of the 'free'. Someone tells me what kind of fence to have; how high, what kind of wood, and the boundaries. Someone tells when when to cut down and tree and exactly what kind of tree I have to replace it with (and when). And I'm living in a house I OWN and not a concrete block.
Your situation sounds only marginally better. It always amuses and confuses me that HOAs are popular among conservative suburbanites.
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Your situation sounds only marginally better. It always amuses and confuses me that HOAs are popular among conservative suburbanites.
Really? Control and conformity seem to be the major features of modern American conservatism.
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