Tea Party in Hawaii

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[Bob Orts]

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Originally posted by Mauka

So when did Puna change so much? Who are these people and what attracted them here? I don't get it.

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It's not about Puna but rather natural demographic changes. As more and more people populate an area, more and more diverse beliefs come with it. As younger people get older, their views change. Twenty years ago, the arguments for or against how to deal with Highway 130 would have been different. The arguments for or against paving private streets would have been different. The arguments for or against tents as homes would have been different. The arguments for or against more police presence would have been different. All the issues of today would have been different ten or twenty years ago and will be different ten and twenty years from now.

In a strange way, hasn’t Puna always been anti-government involvement, anti government solutions, anti-government this and that? Puna has never been about exerting political strength, it's always been about complaining against anything government does. It doesn’t matter if it right or wrong; if it makes sense or not; is valuable to the people or harms them; and it doesn’t matter if people understand what they are fighting against. Like the Tea Party, it's about the fight, not the reality. The philosophy of the Tea Party; complain about everything (true or false, real or imaginary) with no viable alternatives, is indeed the life force of Puna.

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[kalama boy]

Thank's Rob, your right that was an easy false crack, my apologies.
Is your personal spellcheck service for everyone or just a little false crack of your own?

It seems to me that the Tea Party is whatever you want it to be, after all when you enter that booth you only get to vote once.

[mdd7000]

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Originally posted by Mauka

So when did Puna change so much? Who are these people and what attracted them here? I don't get it. I hear the Soloman Islands calling, or maybe New Guinea, or Nicaragua where there is real democracy.

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Hope you can get a direct flight from Hilo. Good luck and please write us of your findings.