[Boston Blackie]

As tough and as patriotic as many working-class people from Boston are, they vote party-line Democrat. Have for decades. Especially the Irish. In cases like this you can’t judge a single person, you have to judge the region as a whole. And that region as a whole has been solid leftist for a very long time.

So that's why you said they brought it upon themselves. Would you apply that same logic to the Boston Marathon bombings and the toppling of the Twin Towers on 9/11? New York been solid leftist for decades. Several Irish American first responders died in the towers that day.

The fishermen of New England have been fighting tyrannical government regulation for decades and are losing their way of life to those regulations and to foreign fishing fleets that don't have to abide by the same regulations.

The New England fishermen, like the above mentioned victims, did not bring it upon themselves.

[thefactor]

Are you really equating acts of terror with the democratic process of electing individuals to public office? Because I have no words for that.