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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi Jason.[/quote]

It's pretty funny that you think it was me posting. To clear up a few things...

1) I'm far from the only person who feels this way about a very clear issue.
2) I don't post on here anonymously, so if you don't see the name it's not me.
3) My full name is on the about section of my website.

- Moderately MOCO (Jason)[/quote]

Hi Jason. You can call yourself whatever you want, but you're not moderate, and you don't represent Montgomery County.[/quote]

i beg to differ. I’m liberal and think he is spot on. he seems conservative to super progressives. and many people here are super progressive.  those folks think anyone who doesn’t agree with them is a Trump supporter.  It isn’t true and [b]it’s not fair that the progressives completely shut out regular liberals.[/b] policy made in an echo chamber is almost always bad policy.   and that is why MoCo is in decline. not because progressive policies are bad, but because they aren’t pragmatic.   tempering them a bit with regular liberal (or gasp, moderate) input would make things much more successful. [/quote]

Who is shutting you out, specifically, and how are they doing it?

I do not obsess about Jason, but from what I've seen, most of the candidates Jason supports lose. That, if nothing else, will tell you that he doesn't represent Montgomery County. Not to mention the hubris of setting yourself up to represent Montgomery County in the first place. [/quote]

The whole past four years' worth of bills have been virtue signaling without trying to figure out how things could be operationalized.

At the very foundation is racial equity.  They are trying to close gaps with really poor policy that actually makes things worse for people of color, instead of taking more measured approaches that might not close the equity gap, but would actually make things better for people of color.   [b]But anyone who asks them to slow down a bit is accused of being racist. [/b]   So everybody suffers, including the populations the politicians purport to care about.

As far as what Jason's named his blog, I'm not sure why this bothers people so much.   Nobody thinks he's trying to speak for the county as a whole.  Nobody even thinks he's trying to speak for all moderates in the county.  He is providing a platform and perspective for those who would like to see more measured approaches to change.  [/quote]

No, but people who say racist things are often accused of saying racist things. Not to mention that this isn't anyone shutting anyone out. When I express an opinion about an opinion you expressed, I'm not shutting you out. Just like you're not shutting me out when you express an opinion about an opinion I expressed. If you expect to be able to express an opinion and get only agreement as a response - well, I don't know what to say.

I'm not going to get into arguments about whether someone who literally calls his public persona "Moderately MoCo" or "MoCo Moderately" is or isn't setting himself up to speak for all moderates in Montgomery County.[/quote]

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