So, the voters of Colorado and Denver have disappointed the hell out of me. We had a state wide prop that would increase income tax by .37% and sales tax by .1% to directly fund pre-school through 12 and public higher ed. This lost by a good 27%.
In Denver county, we had an referendum to have all companies in Denver county, with over 10 people, provide 1 hour of sick time for every 30 hours worked. This went down by a similar margin of 29%.
I am completely flabbergasted by these, especially the latter. There aren't enough small business owners to vote something down by this sort of margin. So why are people voting against mandatory sick time for their fellow workers? Better yet, why does a generally liberal county vote like this? Why can't people take a very very tiny tax increase to help education?
So how did everyone else's election go?
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Dunno why you're shocked it is Virginia. There are Republicans, and Corpra/hawk/ocrats around here. It's also still the South. Just not as crazy as say, Alabama or Florida.
The South doesn't consider Virginia the South.
Geographically and for all intents it still is. Despite the fact that they desperately like to pretend NOVA is not part of VA, it still is. They can claim it's not when they split off and change geography and the history books. Till then, they are just lying their asses off about it.
See: Maryland
Virginia at least was part of the Confederacy.
Maryland is south of the Mason-Dixon line, at least.
Maryland isn't Southern.
But Maryland hasn't really been a southern state for some time, culturally-speaking. Northern Virginia isn't really culturally southern anymore. DC is more southern, from a cultural perspective. Especially the black community.
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You could also call Maryland southern because it's south of Canada, but that doesn't mean anything.
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We are so odd sometimes.
*Eliminate all taxation
*Legalize lynching
*Appoint Rick Perry governor for life
*Convert Austin into walled-in superprison
I think you also have to mandate the creation of the Batman to get that one passed.
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It's true. So very, very, horribly, sadly true.
I still see some cars around where I live that have Rick Scott bumper stickers. Always kills a piece of my soul.
We deserve every god damn thing that's happening to us right now. Fuck this country.
I feel this way, sometimes.
Then I remember I'm white, male, hetero, employed, and live in a fairly protected state (Virginia).
It wouldn't really suck for me like it would for others. I'll be mad, and see injustice all around me, but my reproductive rights are fine, my civil rights are fine, it's not any more likely than normal that I'd lose my job. It's not me that's going to get fucked over.
So I can't let it be my discouragement that fucks women and minorities over.
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Doesn't sound too awesome.
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Man, we are headed really fast down Wrong Idea Turnpike.
Internet voting is just retarded. I mean, come on.
How is that any different from the electorate now?