I'll take exception to the author of the piece in Seattle's The Stranger as well. I'm a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor party, thankyouverymuch, buster. Those hicks you're talking about are my family. Lay off.
I think that he has an interesting idea, however, in choosing "urban" as the focus of the national party in style and priority. I'll let him have his little bluster to bring that idea along. I think that, ironically, an "urban" strategy would attract a lot of young rural voters. Many of them are (as I and most of my classmates were) eager to get to the city. Even if it's just the "little" city down the road a piece and not the "big" city, there's an appeal that says hope and opportunity there. Many of their parents want their kids to move to the city so they can "do better" than mom and dad. That's maybe the line to take; stop dissing the rural folks, start building on the hope and opportunity of our golden cities.
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Date: 2004-11-17 09:18 am (UTC)I think that he has an interesting idea, however, in choosing "urban" as the focus of the national party in style and priority. I'll let him have his little bluster to bring that idea along. I think that, ironically, an "urban" strategy would attract a lot of young rural voters. Many of them are (as I and most of my classmates were) eager to get to the city. Even if it's just the "little" city down the road a piece and not the "big" city, there's an appeal that says hope and opportunity there. Many of their parents want their kids to move to the city so they can "do better" than mom and dad. That's maybe the line to take; stop dissing the rural folks, start building on the hope and opportunity of our golden cities.