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Living In An ‘Enlightened’ Bubble

By Kleinheider Posted on January 16, 2009 at 10:29 am

Sean Braisted hates to break it to his liberal friends but, in all likelihood, the English Only charter amendment is going to pass:

Last night I made a few phone calls for the cause and ended up calling 50-60 year old people in Hermitage and Joelton. Any guesses on how they’ll likely be voting? Yeah, “tolerance” isn’t exactly a selling point.

In addition, a lot of people are focusing on the early voting turnout in the presumed white liberal areas of the city. Which is all sunshine and rainbows, except those are the districts closest to the Howard School building. When you get to election day, you’ll have a whole host of voters who vote in every election, regardless of the cause, and they are less likely to have sat down and weighed the pros and cons of the two charter amendments. We are in America, and we speak English in American…nuff said.

This isn’t to say that its impossible to stop this measure, anything is possible, but if anyone out there is confident this amendment will fail, you really need a reality check, post haste. Step out the bubble.

SEE ALSO: English Only Comes Down to PR Battle

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9 Responses to “Living In An ‘Enlightened’ Bubble”

  1. Matthew Hurtt writes
    January 16th, 2009 11:19 am

    Wow, Sean’s starting to sound like a Republican, or just a pragmatic Tennessean.

    The whole “thinking outside the bubble” mentality is how I approach Davidson County Democratic Politics - as in, Davidson County (and Shelby County) Democrats live inside their own little bubble.

    It was apparent with the marriage amendment. It is apparent in their politics. And it will be apparent with the English Only Charter Amendment. A majority of Tennesseans do not share the San Fran values of Sean and his buddies.

    No offense to Sean, of course. Tennesseans are just clinging to their guns and religion.

    - Matthew

  2. Roger Abramson writes
    January 16th, 2009 11:27 am

    No, Sean’s just realistic, which is what makes him effective. He’s capable of stepping outside an ideological bubble and seeing what’s really going on. A pretty impressive talent for someone in their 20s. There are ideologues three times his age incapable of that.

  3. Matthew Hurtt writes
    January 16th, 2009 11:33 am

    Oh, right - Roger.

    Have you read Sean’s blog? I’d go read it before you stand in his defense.

    Sean and I need to grab lunch sometime. We could run that conversation on Nashville public television.

    I’m game.

    - Matthew

  4. Sean Braisted writes
    January 16th, 2009 11:46 am

    Actually, I was hoping I could be the stand in for Eric Crafton. Just repeat a few talking points ad naseum, and deflect any legitimate concerns about the impact of this amendment on our city.

  5. Roger Abramson writes
    January 16th, 2009 11:47 am

    Yes, I’ve read Sean’s blog. I read it everyday. Sean’s a liberal Democrat. So what? That doesn’t make him an idiot. It’s just a political persuasion. He’s got good instincts when it comes to objective political analysis, especially as bloggers go.

    Think he’s wrong on issues? Well, as a libertarian/conservative Republican, so do I a lot of times, but in terms of political instincts, he’s quite good.

  6. Matthew Hurtt writes
    January 16th, 2009 11:58 am

    Nowhere did I call Sean an idiot. Please don’t insert other points into the discussion in an attempt to distract from the fact that most Tennesseans don’t subscribe to Sean’s political persuasion.

    - Matthew

  7. Roger Abramson writes
    January 16th, 2009 12:04 pm

    Actually, you’re the one changing the subject. What does the fact that most Tennesseans don’t subscribe to his point of view have to do with anything I wrote in my 11:27 AM post above? when did I ever suggest that his point of view was shared by most other Tennesseans?

  8. Andy Axel writes
    January 16th, 2009 12:36 pm

    Fact o’ business is that even if “English Only” passes in a referendum, them durned eeeevul librul activist judges will kill it in a heartbeat before it gets implemented.

  9. Daniel writes
    January 16th, 2009 2:19 pm

    I’m assuming these phone calls were targeted, based on a somewhat progressive voting history, rather than just calling registered voters in Republican-leaning parts of the city essentially reminding them to go vote. (I’m from Hermitage).

    Anyway, the sample size of one phone banker’s experience isn’t worth getting too worked up about, but I am glad that some people on my side of this issue aren’t disillusioned.

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