Zonie63
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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer
This is hilarious!
I want to visit Arizona!
Poor old God. If only He'd said, somewhere in the Bible, 'Look, I'm not a git, OK?'
Arizona really isn't that bad. It's really just Maricopa County, which has the most seats in the legislature and pretty much runs the state like a petty dictatorship. I think this particular legislation is stalled somewhere, and it's probably not going to see the light of day anytime soon.
I can see how it happens, though. There are certain factions who tend to push social conservative legislation directed at the public schools. I think they sometimes do it to flex their muscle, a kind of political saber-rattling directed at what they see as "the enemy." Even if they know it's not going to pass, they just want to have something as part of the legislative record.
Some districts (not all) are very heavily conservative and Christian, so it's easy to see how some of the politicians who come out of those districts would come up with this kind of stuff. They don't have to worry about what the rest of the country thinks, only their constituents. And if their constituents don't care about embarrassment or how it looks, then that's how it happens.
I sometimes think of Arizona as a state for people who either too weird or too crazy for the rest of America. Apart from some of the wealthier areas and insular retirement communities, there is quite a bit of poverty across the state. Tucson recently received the dubious honor of being the 6th poorest city in America. The folks up in Phoenix refer to Tucson as their "bastard step child," and some Christians think that Tucson is "evil" and needs our prayers. Tucson tends to be more Democratic and liberal, although our local government is rife with corruption. People around here keep thinking they want Tucson to be like Portland or Santa Fe, but the way things are going, we're rapidly turning into the Detroit of the Southwest.
I've been thinking about bailing out of here myself, especially in the summer when it gets into the 100s every day. But there's a certain quaint charm about this place that keeps me here. I've been all over the country and lived in other places, but this has become home to me, even despite the kooky, goofball, corrupt individuals who pass for politicians around here. But the place is falling apart. The streets are strewn with potholes, with rundown buildings, empty storefronts, canceled projects/developments. An urban renewal project with hundreds of millions already wasted and very little to show for it. The local government seems like it's run by the Three Stooges, where incompetence is the order of the day.
There is a certain entertainment value that comes from Arizona politics. There have been some rather colorful figures that come up from time to time.
Maybe it's something about living in the desert. It may be the climate that does it to us.
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