tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1245249781884723223.post6062595721157618720..comments2024-01-30T00:04:20.510-05:00Comments on Lakewood's Wanderings and Scribbles.: My 2¢ on the 2012 ElectionLakewoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12938008753635063175noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1245249781884723223.post-43376284109708595382012-11-08T08:49:09.138-05:002012-11-08T08:49:09.138-05:00Thanks for the comments guys. Jason: Guilty as ...Thanks for the comments guys. Jason: Guilty as charged. I'm definitely in an academic environment, and it certainly can be argued that my bullet-points are left-leaning. But I think you'd be surprised as to how my small microcosm of a world in academia is actually quite conservative. Most of the graduates in my department go on to work for big oil companies and a good portion of the faculty are republicans and libertarians (My advisor included). Shoot..the "founder of fracking" is in our department. Centre County where I live actually voted for Romney in the election too. Something else also to remember, is that I worked for 10 years in the corporate environment before deciding to come back to school, so I have quite a bit of life experience living in an upper tax bracket as well. Had I wrote this post 5 years ago, before truly experiencing both sides of the coin, I think my bullet points would have come across more right-leaning and probably blaming the losses in this election on things like a poorly run republican campaign (or likewise). I like to think that I went into this election fairly well informed, and that the opinions I expressed I felt were just me being honest with what I saw. I guess my point was that there is a major demographic shift in this country and that the there needs to be a paradigm shift within the conservative parties...or they will become irrelevant. We need conservatives in Congress just as much as we need Progressives (Just as we need Greens and Libertarians too!).<br /><br />Anyhoo...I do appreciate the comments and thanks for being civil too.<br /><br />-jLakewoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12938008753635063175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1245249781884723223.post-64687913823692954912012-11-07T20:54:13.820-05:002012-11-07T20:54:13.820-05:00Love your blog, but you clearly spend a lot of tim...Love your blog, but you clearly spend a lot of time in academia and among those on the left, and while there is nothing wrong with that, the lack of depth and experience you show in this post is a result not of facts, but of associations.Jasonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1245249781884723223.post-67966576636661123902012-11-07T14:34:32.387-05:002012-11-07T14:34:32.387-05:00I'm with you, Lakewood. All of your points the...I'm with you, Lakewood. All of your points the reasons why politics has been more and more worrisome to me in the past few years. The health insurance thing is what effects me most directly, being a perpetual part-time/seasonal worker. But institutional bigotry and craziness have just been getting me down. Here's to hoping things calm down in the near future, and real, meaningful changes take place. I'm counting down the days until healthcare reform takes full effect... I think it would make life much easier for a lot of AT/PCT hikers, not to mention the normal folk out there.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13645865490952231444noreply@blogger.com