Sportsdude wrote:
About me? Russ you use political labels that a commentator on Fox News, Conservative Radio uses to polarize people, words of hate which have been condemned by both sides of the aisle down here and in Canada, it's what is wrong with politics. We're having an election based on 15-25 years of baseless hate words that have polarized people. People are tired of the cheap words. I used to be like that too, but you know, I'm trying to change because its pointless. If you have nothing good to say, don't say anything at all, people would tell me. It's childish behaviour fit for 5 year olds.
You've missed my point, when a region starts to feel disenfranchised they'll start to think people in their state/province are against them. My family is from Southern Illinois. They hate Chicago, they're paranoid in believing that Northern Illinois doesn't care about Southern. In the 90s there was a movement to split from Illinois. The movement went nowhere and it was rather laughable, but the anger toward 'Chicago' is still there and the people will complain saying 'Illinois isn't fixing the roads again, they need to pave a road in Chicago' or something like that.
In Missouri, there's people that live in Kansas City and St. Louis and then there's everyone else. The 'everyone else' hates St. Louis and Kansas City as 'bastions of liberalism, black people and multi-culturalism'. Here in the two cities we see the rural area as backwards and racist while the rural area sees us as a cess pool of people causing all the problems in Missouri. Any state or province or country where there's one giant city which has most of the area's population and political power, will cause political angst in other parts of its territory. Chicago- Illinois, Missouri-KC and STL, Atlanta-Georgia, Providence-RI, Toronto-Ontario, Montreal-Quebec, Halifax-Nova Scotia, Boston- Mass.
I don't just hang out with 'college' age kids. Just talk to people on the ferries, in public, on the beach in Tofino or Victoria and in the media.
No didnt miss your point. I happen to agree with you, but I feel its more the interior then the Island which is being quashed by decision makers in high population areas. I happen to know many people from the interior that talk about cappucino sucking lower mainlanders. lol. I hate cappucino.
Many of my family and friends on the island prefer the island over the mainland.. and so will stay there.
Im trying, as are others on here (I think) to not just take some information and apply it with a brush.
How the hell can you write so much so fast? Im having troubles with what I have written here so far. lol
