Will DC metro be a good fit for us ideologically?

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Anonymous wrote:DC is obviously VERY Democratic but pretty nuanced in its “wokeness”

Unless your kids attend public schools then the woke level goes to 11. It’s a celebration of every marginalized group every week in perpetuity. If you want your kids to attend in person school then you’re a racist against BLM etc. interesting times.

Sigh. Can we go back to the days when we only celebrated white culture? It was so much simpler.

/s

This!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have lived in DC my entire adulthood and talk about politics constantly - this is a city full of educated expats, model-UN trophy winners, college debaters with 99.5 percent of all lawyers who have an undergraduate political science degree.

This is why I consider DC proper blue, but not necessarily woke. People have a lot of money in the city.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have lived in DC my entire adulthood and talk about politics constantly - this is a city full of educated expats, model-UN trophy winners, college debaters with 99.5 percent of all lawyers who have an undergraduate political science degree.

This is why I consider DC proper blue, but not necessarily woke. People have a lot of money in the city.

The insufferable Wokesters live in Takoma Park and Silver Spring.

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DC is a one party town which is a very bad thing. It means the government is terrible, and there is no accountability because everyone is on the same team. And it means policies are determined by the looniest of the left wing. DC will be the kind of place where it soon will be illegal to smoke cigarettes but doing heroin will be considered a lifestyle choice that people should not judge.

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Anonymous wrote:Hey, fellow what is now a centrist Dem. Come to Fairfax Co. WE live in FFX and are in the same boat as you. We're progressive but done with the woke-hellscape that the left has created. There are people on both sides of the aisle here. Most of our street does lean left but there's quite a few R military families.

The wokeness of the left will be our undoing. I've talked to many progressive friends who've left LA, Seattle, NYC, etc. trying to escape this nonsense. The far left seems to be pushing away the majority-middle.

FFX Co - Fairfax, Burke, Springfield, may suit you well.

What exactly is “the wokeness of the left?” Pray tell. Is it anti racism and wanting equality? Wanting everyone to have the opportunity to make a decent living and have healthcare? Against unnecessary wars?

GOD FORBID people want to end mass suffering and want to see everyone have an abundance of opportunity in order to live a decent life. THE HORROR!!!

I wonder if they mean "performative wokeness", like when a bunch of people have BLM signs but shunning affordable housing or any other meaningful action because of the "feel of the neighborhood".

DING DING DING

see also: resisting any redistricting and/or boundary study because "but BUt bUt tHe FeeL of nEighBorHooD sChOolS!"

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have lived in DC my entire adulthood and talk about politics constantly - this is a city full of educated expats, model-UN trophy winners, college debaters with 99.5 percent of all lawyers who have an undergraduate political science degree.

This is why I consider DC proper blue, but not necessarily woke. People have a lot of money in the city.

The insufferable Wokesters live in Takoma Park and Silver Spring.

And NIMBY out any increased diversity.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I live about 5 miles as the crow flies outside of the beltway in VA. It's in Fairfax county, which gave 70% of its vote to Biden. My neighborhood probably had 10-15 Biden signs for every Trump sign. Most people seem to be moderate, but it's not like political conversations are that frequent.

I think you'd be happy in many metro DC neighborhoods, but I also think you're putting too much thought into it.

Thank you for understanding. We are coming from a place that was rabidly blue and people were taking politics to residential life and local school life. Not talking about politics is totally fine with me.

If you don't want to talk politics don't move to this area. Seriously exurbs like Loudoun are the best fit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are considering moving from a very large liberal city where our kids attend a very diverse school. We are looking for a place that would be politically diverse and where people are generally open minded and not up in arms if you are not woke enough or don't uniformly recite CNN and/or liberal outlets or vice versa, we don't discriminate. We are likely to live in the residential or suburban area as we want more space and outdoors. I really dislike wokeness in general, so a woke neighborhood would not be a good fit, neither would be predominantly hard core republican or religious area. I am hoping DC metro is a mix due to it being the seat of power and variety of political views represented. Is this true?

If you use the word "woke" and you're not being sarcastic, you won't be welcome in any community of educated people.

DC Metro is basically: highly educated smart people, people who want to make the world a better place, nonprofit types, minorities. This means: the Democratic party of the US.

DC is highly Democratic because smart people in America are highly Democratic. (The GOP is basically 2-400 billionaires who run the party, a bunch of craven, lying apparatchiks who staff the party, and many millions of white, lied-to base voters that don't realize the billionaires are deceiving them. For example, CNN is a corporate outlet which Jeff Zucker used to help get Trump elected. Many people in DC realize this.)

Also DC has some parachuted-in conservative ideologues, who come in paid by Charles Koch and the rest of the billionaires. These people, to the endless amusement of DC residents, have severe trouble dating in the DC area, except amongst other conservative extremists. Twice a year there is an article in a local news outlet describing how surprised conservatives are when they get here and realize everyone in DC laughs at them for being conservative-funded affirmative action hacks and looks down on them. Quite amazing.

You should come here. You might learn a lot from the diverse smart people here.

[Anonymous]

The wokeness whining here on DCUM is highly atypical for actual people in DC. I think a some closeted conservatives in DC who can't actually defend their views in real-life interactions come here to DCUM to vent.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We are considering moving from a very large liberal city where our kids attend a very diverse school. We are looking for a place that would be politically diverse and where people are generally open minded and not up in arms if you are not woke enough or don't uniformly recite CNN and/or liberal outlets or vice versa, we don't discriminate. We are likely to live in the residential or suburban area as we want more space and outdoors. I really dislike wokeness in general, so a woke neighborhood would not be a good fit, neither would be predominantly hard core republican or religious area. I am hoping DC metro is a mix due to it being the seat of power and variety of political views represented. Is this true?

If you use the word "woke" and you're not being sarcastic, you won't be welcome in any community of educated people.

DC Metro is basically: highly educated smart people, people who want to make the world a better place, nonprofit types, minorities. This means: the Democratic party of the US.

DC is highly Democratic because smart people in America are highly Democratic. (The GOP is basically 2-400 billionaires who run the party, a bunch of craven, lying apparatchiks who staff the party, and many millions of white, lied-to base voters that don't realize the billionaires are deceiving them. For example, CNN is a corporate outlet which Jeff Zucker used to help get Trump elected. Many people in DC realize this.)

Also DC has some parachuted-in conservative ideologues, who come in paid by Charles Koch and the rest of the billionaires. These people, to the endless amusement of DC residents, have severe trouble dating in the DC area, except amongst other conservative extremists. Twice a year there is an article in a local news outlet describing how surprised conservatives are when they get here and realize everyone in DC laughs at them for being conservative-funded affirmative action hacks and looks down on them. Quite amazing.

You should come here. You might learn a lot from the diverse smart people here.

First and foremost the magnificently hilarious alloy of arrogance+ignorance their bubbles are crafted out of!

[Anonymous]

One party in America encompasses most educated people.

The other party is a party of billionaires, the handmaid apparatchiks that serve the billionaires' agenda, and a large but minority pool of lied-to voters.




In DC, it's true that the apparatchiks are very very insecure about this division, and they try to paint the other side as being arrogant -- because deep down, most know this characterization is correct.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live about 5 miles as the crow flies outside of the beltway in VA. It's in Fairfax county, which gave 70% of its vote to Biden. My neighborhood probably had 10-15 Biden signs for every Trump sign. Most people seem to be moderate, but it's not like political conversations are that frequent.

I think you'd be happy in many metro DC neighborhoods, but I also think you're putting too much thought into it.

Thank you for understanding. We are coming from a place that was rabidly blue and people were taking politics to residential life and local school life. Not talking about politics is totally fine with me.

If anyone on this thread is arguing that politics doesn't infect every aspect of life in DC, it is only because their opinion is so assumed to be the mainstream that they don't need to talk about it. Trust me, if you disagree with the CNN narrative, you will feel the weight of politics everywhere here. Other parts of the country get on with life and only pay attention to politics during elections, etc., here... politics is life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One party in America encompasses most educated people.

The other party is a party of billionaires, the handmaid apparatchiks that serve the billionaires' agenda, and a large but minority pool of lied-to voters.




In DC, it's true that the apparatchiks are very very insecure about this division, and they try to paint the other side as being arrogant -- because deep down, most know this characterization is correct.

Interesting because most surveys show Republican voters to be better informed or equally informed on a wide range of topics. I posted a long post with many citations from reputable sources awhile ago. Take a look before you bask in your superiority.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are considering moving from a very large liberal city where our kids attend a very diverse school. We are looking for a place that would be politically diverse and where people are generally open minded and not up in arms if you are not woke enough or don't uniformly recite CNN and/or liberal outlets or vice versa, we don't discriminate. We are likely to live in the residential or suburban area as we want more space and outdoors. I really dislike wokeness in general, so a woke neighborhood would not be a good fit, neither would be predominantly hard core republican or religious area. I am hoping DC metro is a mix due to it being the seat of power and variety of political views represented. Is this true?

If you use the word "woke" and you're not being sarcastic, you won't be welcome in any community of educated people.

DC Metro is basically: highly educated smart people, people who want to make the world a better place, nonprofit types, minorities. This means: the Democratic party of the US.

DC is highly Democratic because smart people in America are highly Democratic. (The GOP is basically 2-400 billionaires who run the party, a bunch of craven, lying apparatchiks who staff the party, and many millions of white, lied-to base voters that don't realize the billionaires are deceiving them. For example, CNN is a corporate outlet which Jeff Zucker used to help get Trump elected. Many people in DC realize this.)

Also DC has some parachuted-in conservative ideologues, who come in paid by Charles Koch and the rest of the billionaires. These people, to the endless amusement of DC residents, have severe trouble dating in the DC area, except amongst other conservative extremists. Twice a year there is an article in a local news outlet describing how surprised conservatives are when they get here and realize everyone in DC laughs at them for being conservative-funded affirmative action hacks and looks down on them. Quite amazing.

You should come here. You might learn a lot from the diverse smart people here.

Ha ha - this is analysis by a "smart" person?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One party in America encompasses most educated people.

The other party is a party of billionaires, the handmaid apparatchiks that serve the billionaires' agenda, and a large but minority pool of lied-to voters.




In DC, it's true that the apparatchiks are very very insecure about this division, and they try to paint the other side as being arrogant -- because deep down, most know this characterization is correct.

Interesting because most surveys show Republican voters to be better informed or equally informed on a wide range of topics. I posted a long post with many citations from reputable sources awhile ago. Take a look before you bask in your superiority.

Since you are so well-informed, please tell us more about those Jewish space lasers.


I feel like I didn’t hear enough about those.