[Vision2020] Vision2020 Digest, Vol 89, Issue 72

[Gary Crabtree]

You need not fret and fervently spout your simpering accord, I'm sure
that she who knows whereof she speaks thinks that YOUR bumper stickers
are sincere.

g

On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
> If only it weren't so painfully and ignorantly true, g.
>
> Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .
>
> "Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)
> http://www.MoscowCares.com
>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
> "There's room at the top they are telling you still
> But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
> If you want to be like the folks on the hill."
>
> - John Lennon
>
>
>
> On Nov 12, 2013, at 11:55 AM, Gary Crabtree <moscowlocksmith at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> "It angers me that, in the name of "liberalism" and "tolerance," the
> voices in Moscow who most want us to believe that they're opposed to
> racism, homophobia, sexism, and the rank classism that chokes this
> town remain silent when a racist, homophobic, masculinist hater of
> community and democracy announces plans to take it over."
>
> Moscow as Birmingham circa 1955? Hysterical (in every sense)
>
> g
>
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Keely Emerine-Mix <siyocreo at live.com>
> wrote:
>
> I agree, Rose, with your disgust toward so many of Moscow's "liberals."
>
>
> When bad judgment, tunnel vision, and a poor understanding of politics,
>
> coupled with an inability to anticipate, much less respond to, opposing
>
> arguments, are all enshrined as virtues, you don't win elections.  The
>
> better mayoral candidate lost, and probably needn't have.  But when the
>
> leaders of the Latah Democrats don't have to even feign astonishment that
>
> there are people out there whose lives are radically different from theirs
>
> -- they really DON'T seem to get it, as I learned in 2005 during he school
>
> bond election -- no one ought to be surprised.
>
>
> I'm dismayed by the all-white, all-male slate put up by the GMA, since, as
>
> Saundra pointed out, there are a number of "pro-business" women out there,
>
> just as Moscow likely has pro-business people of color.  What really dismays
>
> me, though, is that the Democrats don't seem to grasp the importance of
>
> reaching out and understanding the concerns of the business community -- or
>
> the people who support it.  I don't blame Nancy Chaney for the loss, for
>
> example, of Moscow's car dealerships, and I think it's unfair for others to.
>
> But a party run at the local level by people who can't grasp the reality
>
> that subdivision dwellers do, in fact, consider themselves to be part of
>
> neighborhoods -- regardless of the sociological definition our academics
>
> employ -- and who refuse to see the anti-business effect of Moscow's
>
> poor-quality school buildings, and who laud themselves for their tolerance
>
> of the utterly intolerable, is a party that won't just lose elections, but
>
> lose the support of its community, which will rightly dismiss them as