On 03/16/2013 09:40 AM, authfriend wrote: > > --- In [email protected], turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: >> No, it's not mental retardation, although that could be a >> factor. It's not walking. >> >> In this interesting article, a theory is proposed that >> living in a town or city that is comfortable to walk around, >> and thus encourages walking, creates a vastly different >> cognitive mapping through which we see the universe than >> does living in a place where you drive everywhere. I have >> certainly seen the truth of this living in Europe, which >> incidentally tends to produce people with more liberal >> views, *except* in the burbs where people live distanced >> from other people and have to drive wherever they're going. >> Interesting theory. >> >> http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article03151301.aspx > Very interesting. One wonders how he would solve the > mystery of what caused Republicans and Conservatives > prior to the era of the automobile.
Don't know much about history? (Just kidding). This has been going on since the founding of the country. I liked HBO's series about John Adams because it showed the tug-a-war between the land owners and those who wanted to preserve the rights of the working class. I grew up in the country and I wouldn't say the folks there were conservative. They mostly voted Democrat. And we used to have liberal Republicans too. The only Republican I ever voted for was a liberal Republican governor. We had Democrat governors who were corrupt. I heard a news break this morning with a sound clip from Sarah Palin. The reporters lead in said she was speaking about talking back the country from the liberals (as if they ever took it in the first place). But then the sound clip from her speech was something that no real liberal would disagree with. It was about driving a stake into the hearts of the too big to fail banks. C-SPAN has the entire speech on their site but I'm not going to sit through her dingy prattle to find that one section. I would have thought it would on the ABCNews site but it isn't and maybe someone realized what she said. But her prattle plays well to the zombies at that convention. Conservatives are all for budget cutting except when it comes to the big gorilla in the room, the offense budget. No not the defense budget, we don't have one. What was the defense budget is now the offense budget because that's what is done with that money.
