What do you expect when Democrats currently make a practice of calling Republicans “Deplorables” or “Despicable”? That is a hostile and discriminatory statement. How can you blame them for not sticking around?
Many liberals preach being open and accepting or at least tolerant of other people’s views – yet they regularly seem to consider the people on the other side of the isle as ‘deplorables’ or ‘despicable’. If someone voiced that people of a different color or race were deplorables – the liberals would be up at arms. If someone voiced that people of a different religious belief were deplorables, liberals would schedule mass demonstrations. If someone claimed that that LGBTQ (more accurately LGBTTTQQIAA ) are despicable, liberals would start mass riots. How is a different general point of view any different than a different take/belief on sexuality, or religion? Isn’t the liberal stance on so called ‘deplorable’ Republicans kind of hypocritical?
To take another look at it, the positives that the community offers:
No graffiti, no trash laying around.
No loud music invading other people’s space.
Low to no crime.
High quality schools.
Safe to the point where it is comfortable to leave somethings unlocked – like it was in many places during the 1960s or earlier.
5 bedroom, 4 bath house, approx 3,000+ sq ft house, 1/3+ acre lot for less than $400,000.
Able for a family to function as a single wage earner/single income – more traditional. This allows for young children to have access to a parent almost any time of the day – no latch-key kids, and less financial stress.
1/3+ acre lots – a lot of room for kids to safely play and develop instead of glued to a TV screen or video game. 3,000sq foot house also allows some play for kids inside.
Sounds kind of nice from the above list. One aspect I worry about is Mc Kinney, TX becoming an ‘echo chamber’ for a specific type of view, though ironically, San Francisco/Silicon Valley has already become an echo chamber for their own types of views – isolating themselves from ideas outside of their own. It is almost overtly hostile to conservatives (Undercover Conservatives). This is part of a series called Divided We Code. First segment Sexual Harassment; Power, Money, Harassment even demonstrates how this liberal bastion is even contradicting their own beliefs on equality.
So at this point, to head off the proverbial name-calling, a little bit about myself;
Tend to vote Republican, but not always. My S.O. is a Democrat. (Yes, we are living in so-called ‘sin’ – what’s it to you? Yes, we also have differing points of view – but why would that be a problem? Have you read Yevgeny Zamyatin’s ‘We’? George Orwell’s ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’?(ref also to ‘thought police’), what about the movie Equilibrium? )
I’m white, she’s not (What? Why would that be wierd? Are you a racist?).
My degree is EECE with a lot of Physics and Math with a minor in Business Management. In highschool, I pulled perfect AP test scores in Math and Physics. She is a Communications major. (so why do you consider me a deplorable ignorant?)
I’m agnostic-Protestant, she’s Catholic. (yes, a Republican can exist that is not a Holy Roller)
Our parents in both cases, have military service in their backgrounds (fathers). Both mothers have been teachers.
— so as you can see – not so cut and dry, black and white. An interesting side note is that she wanted us to move to Texas….
