(01-09-2021, 12:10 PM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote:

(01-09-2021, 12:07 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: Haha.

I've probably told your dumb [BLEEP] 10 times that I'm from Jacksonville.

Once you live there, it infects you. I have seen it with several college buddies who moved there and became liberal elitists overnight.  Same thing that happened to you.

The fact that you actually believe what you typed there is very telling of how impressionable you are. 

I'm not as impressionable. 

I grew up in Jax.  It's a VERY 50/50 environment politically.  I was raised in an extremely conservative Christian home and spent countless hours at church or related activities. I registered and voted republican and voted mostly for republicans when I was a young man. 

I didn't move to NYC until I was 28 years old. By then I had traveled to 30 states and 14 countries, read my share of literature and nonfiction, spent 6 years in and out of two colleges, and I had seen humans treat other humans poorly firsthand in a number of different environments. My turn toward more compassionate policy happened before I moved to NYC and was dictated by the empathy I had toward others that I witnessed being treated unjustly. 

Thinking you are an idiot doesn't make me an elitist. I don't feel that way about conservatives in general or even "everyone who voted for Trump."  Just anyone that puts their stupidity on display to the point it can't be denied. 

Sidenote on the NYC topic, it's interesting that I lived in Jax which was 50/50, NYC which was 90/10 liberal, and now I live in an extremely conservative town in SWFL.  There are Trump flags all over my neighborhood. I don't have a problem working with and working for the people of this community. In fact I find myself empathetic to some of my friends here who are downtrodden over the election result. I've had a number of convos trying to explain how "it won't be as bad as you think" to several of them.

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