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The Annoyed Man wrote:

RHenriksen wrote:

Skiprr wrote:

Soccerdad1995 wrote:Putting aside the irony that they are in agreement with sheriff Joe Arpaio....

You mean ex-sheriff Joe Arpaio. Unfortunately, on Tuesday Sheriff Joe lost his bid for a seventh term in Maricopa County. He lost to Democrat Paul Penzone.

http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/loc ... /93534098/

That's an awful shame. Would be interested to read an (independent) analysis of why that election broke to the left.

Arizona has been flooded lately with immigrants of "uncertain status". The Aztlan movement is growing there in the south of the state. Hippies are taking over the north. Here's how the presidential vote broke out there: 1,021,154 votes for Trump, 936,250 votes for Clinton, 80,151 votes for Johnson, and 25,255 votes for Stein. That's a total of 2,784,174 votes cast. The Clinton votes equal 91.7% of the Trump vote, or a difference of 84,904 votes. To put that in perspective, Johnson and Stein combined got 105,406 votes. In other words, democrats have come perilously close to flipping Arizona.

Trump got 49.5% of the vote, Clinton 45.4%, Johnson 3.9%, and Stein 1.2%. Combined, democrats, libertarians, and greens account for 50.5% of the vote, to the republicans' 49.5%.

Given:

1. Arpaio's reputation vis-a-vis illegal immigration, and given
2. the democrats' opposition to border enforcement, and given
3. the official libertarian platform of being for open borders, and given
4. the green party's similar platform,
   
   and
5. assuming that the party percentages in Maricopa county are roughly similar to the rest of the state,
   
   then
6. it is a fairly safe bet all of the democrats, libertarians, and green party voters in Maricopa county had enough of a majority to oust Arpaio from office.

I created a spreadsheet showing how each of the states voted, stats taken from CNN (link is on the spreadsheet). Feel free to use it.

2016 Vote.pdf

The Annoyed Man wrote:All of this is the natural byproduct of people placing a higher value on their grievance identity than on their citizenship.......or on obtaining citizenship if they don't already have it. They are more interested in carving their own place in the world, than they are in being part of the greatest nation in world history.

Frankly, I'm not surprised, as there are also plenty of people on the social/political right who are beginning to feel the same way. And I think this emphasis on assigning a higher value to one's grievance identity rather than on citizenship is itself the natural byproduct of a leviathan fedgov't which has grown too large to either be responsive to the needs of the citizenry, or protective the rights of the citizenry.