The Utah rebellion ? (live, law, residential)

[Cida]

Realistic and accurate? Or wildly wrong?


Utah is in the middle of a voter rebellion, driven by a growing gulf between what people actually want (marijuana, Medicaid, and fair districts) and what their conservative, religious elected representatives have been willing to give them.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics...supermajority/

[highplainsrunaway]

Mother Jones is usually about as realistic and accurate as CNN.

[phlinak]

So, Mother Jones is spot on.

[old fed]

Originally Posted by Cida

Realistic and accurate? Or wildly wrong?


Utah is in the middle of a voter rebellion, driven by a growing gulf between what people actually want (marijuana, Medicaid, and fair districts) and what their conservative, religious elected representatives have been willing to give them.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics...supermajority/

pretty much. people voted for those things and the legislature diluted and changed the original intent of the ballot initiatives because they didn't like how the citizens voted.

I'm surprised they haven't come up with a law to prohibit ballot initiatives...yet.

[Katzpur]

If we're starting to even edge towards the color purple, I'd just say it's about time! I think the younger generation is going to bring about a lot of good changes in our state and our nation.

[kletter1mann]

Originally Posted by highplainsrunaway

Mother Jones is usually about as realistic and accurate as CNN.

Did you actually read the article? I didn't see a single thing that wasn't accurate.

[Cida]

Originally Posted by highplainsrunaway

Mother Jones is usually about as realistic and accurate as CNN.

Is there any particular fact that you'd like to dispute, or is that just an automatic reaction, while avoiding anything factual?

[imbobbbb]

I doubt there will be any huge changes although I agree that the legislature is much more socially conservative than the public at large.....that doesn't mean they are going to suddenly start voting democrat enmass.

Part of the problem is the same in most states,people often don't pay much attention to the state races.Voters get worked up over the presidential race,sometimes the governor or US Senate/House races but don't have a clue when it comes to state races and just vote for whoever has a D or R next to their name.Most people don't vote in the primaries and those who do tend to be more conservative than Republicans as a whole or more liberal on the Democrats side.....I doubt that will change to any great degree.

[Cida]

Originally Posted by imbobbbb

I doubt there will be any huge changes although I agree that the legislature is much more socially conservative than the public at large.....that doesn't mean they are going to suddenly start voting democrat enmass.

Part of the problem is the same in most states,people often don't pay much attention to the state races.Voters get worked up over the presidential race,sometimes the governor or US Senate/House races but don't have a clue when it comes to state races and just vote for whoever has a D or R next to their name.Most people don't vote in the primaries and those who do tend to be more conservative than Republicans as a whole or more liberal on the Democrats side.....I doubt that will change to any great degree.

I'd normally agree that there wouldn't be speedy changes, but these days I feel as if there is a growing impatience and rebelliousness across the nation, and some legislators may find that they're prodded into action.

[Hrothgar]

I'd say right and wrong both. Utah is, or was, a very Conservative state that valued all the right things. Over the last six or so years there has been a growing demographic shift to a massive amount of lazy, drug addicted freeloaders piling in and demanding their addictions be legalized and tolerated as well as demanding free stuff.

Unfortunately I have lived in a few other places previously that experienced this same pariah and cancer infecting those communities and the cancer will likely win out here as well.