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Love Howie, but, as a Bay State native, I think he has it backwards. “Normal” people do not come here to go to college. Most of the students who flood the state’s many colleges are left-wingers. They heap scorn on the working-class “townies” but often decide to settle here. In short, other states export their moonbats to Massachusetts. Every crazy policy imposed by Cambridge pols and officials is largely driven by transplants. The natives who live in the less affluent sections of the city do not support the boutique issues pushed by the wealthy transplants who live there.
So California has some competition?
“Doesn’t it sometimes seem like almost every sanctimonious jerk in politics and the left-wing media has some kind of connection to Massachusetts? “
Yes, like Congressman Adam Schitt whose parents “migrated to California” and settled here in Danville. But honorable mention should go to Baltimore, MD, “birthplace” of Nazi D’Alesandro (Pelosi), Baltimore’s “Miss Lube Rack of 1950” who came to SF to “continue to lube the country” and Babs Boxer, “Ms. Call me Senator Please” who shed NYC for Marin County, CA decades ago.
Our problem for the future? The fact that we're battling our own decades long apathy about actually getting involved. We have ceded public education, the entire entertainment industry, government and (pseudo/quasi) "Christian" denominations to liberals, simply because that was the easiest thing for us to do.
Now we're all concerned about the future. And to save our future we're somehow expected to overcome the above?
My fear is that President Trump is merely a temporary respite from the inevitable. My fear is that the baby boomer generation in America was like a small child that was corrupted and spoiled from birth. We all know that such a brat cannot be rehabilitated.
Ben Sasse. Harvard.
I am proud to say that I am a FORMER resident of Massachusetts. Living there felt like I was living behind enemy lines. Six years ago I moved to Georgia and have never regretted it. I went from being represented by Jim McGovern (D) to Jody Hice (R) who is a member of the Freedom Caucus.
Lois Lerner, the corrupt IRS bureaucrat who took the Fifth Amendment when asked about persecuting Tea Party groups on behalf of her Democrat bosses — flush with a fat federal pension, she just dropped $1.96 million on a mansion on Nantucket.
Only hire from the midwest :)
They are the new Puritans of the 21st century.