Bizarro Utah
Anderson Cooper 360 features an iReport on Democrats in Utah.Associate producer Jack Gray says he wanted to spend time with Democrats in a heavily Republican state. And in Utah, boy howdy, he got what he was looking for:
Democrats in Utah inhabit a veritable political “bizarro world.” The state is indeed rural, heavily Mormon, and conservative. But there is also a strong, albeit small, group of Democratic activists (including Mormons) working to advance the Democratic Party platform within Utah.His interviews with out-of-the-closet Democrats at Brigham Young University are especially striking. One Cougar Dem says:
I definitely feel on edge. You are allways readly for a fight. I know that sounds bad. . .I don't like to argue, but as soon as people find out I'm a Democrat, that's what they like to do and I'm not going to back down. Why should I have to back down like I'm doing something wrong?
5 Comments:
On a recent driving trip in another state, I saw a car with a Utah license plate, and next to the plate a bumper sticker that said "I'm not a Republican".
The juxtaposition of the Utah plate and the sticker, as if the driver was saying "yes, I'm from Utah, but let me explain...." was hilarious.
Contrary to the heroic BYU Dem., I find the vocal minority to be more like a yipping Yorkie that is always spoiling for a fight. The lazy majority is more like a Great Dane that opens one eye and wonders what the little dog's problem is.
Democrats always have small racks.
Yet another anonymous said: "Democrats always have small racks." No, it just seems like that because Republicans always have their heads up their butts.
Gee. What intelligent, reasoned commentary and debate here.
How did it get from political imbalance to mammaries?
This is udderly ridiculous.
Oops.
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