OttoSchloss
Active Member
Sorry but anytime I read "hijacked by socialists" I automatically assume the author means: old, white, protestant, heterosexual men are no longer completely in charge and I hate it!
The fact is, nothing has been hijacked. The city has matured beyond a single industry with a single dominant cultural group, as has the world. There's a diversity of opinion and no one necessarily always agrees with their neighbor, but what it comes down to is, a large portion of gays, women, visible minorities and enlightened white guys don't think the old power structures represent them and so they vote for the people they think do. It's not a hijacking, it's democracy.
A hijacking of government is when a party that barely scraped by with under 30% of the popular vote operates like it has some sort of mandate from the people to do as it pleases and the parties that people actually voted for stand by and watch like ball-less wonders.
The fact is, nothing has been hijacked. The city has matured beyond a single industry with a single dominant cultural group, as has the world. There's a diversity of opinion and no one necessarily always agrees with their neighbor, but what it comes down to is, a large portion of gays, women, visible minorities and enlightened white guys don't think the old power structures represent them and so they vote for the people they think do. It's not a hijacking, it's democracy.
A hijacking of government is when a party that barely scraped by with under 30% of the popular vote operates like it has some sort of mandate from the people to do as it pleases and the parties that people actually voted for stand by and watch like ball-less wonders.
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