(11-10-2021, 11:18 PM)kalakoa Wrote: The important thing to understand is that people are willing to tolerate all manner of inconvenience just to live in Hawaii simply because it's Hawaii. Government can keep raising taxes, because more people will move here to replace the ones who give up. For many tourists, Hawaii is a once-in-a-lifetime vacation. The side effect of all this is that Hawaii simply doesn't have to do anything it doesn't want to. Bad roads and eternal congestion? Too bad, consider yourself lucky that you get to enjoy these problems ... in Hawaii.
I tolerated insane inconveniences to move here, under the false impression this would all be lifted by spring.
No one I spoke with thought we would still be under Ige's thumb this long.
I had no intentions of even paying attention to politics here. I knew it was bad, but the depths to which it is bad...
If it was just the masks it would be one thing, but getting nagged by someone to put on hand sanitizer when I walk into some place when my skin is cracking and dry... combined with the endless theater of spraying quats on all surfaces every 5 minutes like this is going to do anything to stop the spread of an airborne disease... Covid case headlines every single day in every single newspaper... On the radio... you can't escape it here.
The thieves here wore masks to hide their faces when they tried to steal my car!!! Whenever I see someone outside with a mask I assume they are criminals hiding their faces. A group of them were in the jungle around here a few months back. But what am I going to call the cops on them about? Wearing masks?
What happened to super bacteria? If it doesn't even likely spread much if at all on surfaces, why the hell is everyone so focused on this? Isn't this bad long term and won't this create bacteria resistant to everything we're using constantly?
As far as feeling safe... I'm feeling very, very much the opposite at this point.
At the very least I will be here to vote next November. Probably have no chance to change anything, but with how unpopular the ruling party currently is... Maybe something will change.
I'm not sure I fully get the voting demographics here, maybe someone can explain them to me.
The main thing I've heard is that almost no one votes here. I wonder if all of this won't create a bunch of first time voters though. I mean, I have only voted twice in my life. Once in an open primary, and another in a general.
Ige has turned me into a card carrying Republican now though. I never thought I'd see the day.