Best City for Progressives

[Gringo]

I know this will be moved to the lounge, lickety split, but anyway...

[JanMichael]

1. ITHACA!!!

How could you forget the city that the rightwing hates the most?!

[Terwilliger]

6. No, that's Berkeley

followed by Ann Arbor, and then Ithaca

[Psychlone]

29. Can I add a choice?

Boulder, CO

[Tinoire]

24. Ithaca ROCKS! The City of EVIL!

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A few reasons why "Ithaca is the City of Evil":

Originally called "Sodom" in frontier days, and home to Lucifer Falls, Ithaca is host to two colleges, Cornell U (aptly nick-named "the Big Red") and Ithaca College (which flies the gay flag over its campus), the two major employers in the area. They insure that a disproportionate amount of dominate the city.

Here are few typical Ithacans:




Locating copies of National Review or the American Spectator requires a trip out of the City, while Ithaca magazine racks remain well-stocked with copies of The Progressive, and The Nation. Readers interested in exposing themselves to a full range of national opinion are simply out of luck.

As a result of this dominance, politics in Ithaca runs the gamet from "liberal" to "communist."

For years, the town had an openly socialist mayor.They later elected him to the school board.

Even today, the City and County governments are dominated by democrats and Green party members. Ithaca is so "Green" that Ralph Nader got more votes in Ithaca than George W. Bush, and the NYS Green Party held its 2002 nominating convention there. The current Chair of the County Legislature is a radical former anti-war protester, self-described hippie, who says "My values haven't changed, just my tactics."

As a result, we get lunacy like spending $500,000 to install solar panels on the new library (in cold, dark, upstate NY).

Even law enforcement is subject to political correctness. The outgoing police chief's major concern was "pushing for departmental diversity." The acting chief was chosen simply because they wanted a woman, and now spends her time attending topless protests.

To make matters worse, the liberals who dominate Ithaca work overtime to impose their ultra liberal agenda on the area children. As the local newspaper recently put it, “In most places, youngsters spend their summers camping, or at the mountains or the beach. In Ithaca, they learn how to become social activists.”

The School District has mandated that elementary school students in the first and second grades be graded on how well they "respect others of varying cultures, genders, experiences, and abilities." It's even listed on the schools' report card. Despite this alleged tolerance, a student who was found reading the bible on her lunch hour was chatised for doing so. Another was directed not to bring a book about Christmas to school.

There's even a taxpayer funded "alternative" (ie, hippie) school that let's students graduate in majors like basket weaving and political activism, and invited convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal to be its graduation speaker.

These schools churn out "educated idiots," who are so liberal, they write editorials that argue "Bin Laden is Human too."

Need more proof? Do a search for "Ithaca" here at FR. You'll see a near daily dose of institutionalized, unfettered, liberal idiocy.

As a result of its unfettered liberalism, Ithaca was voted most enlightened (ie, liberal) city in America by the ultra left Utne Reader. As a good, conservative Freeper, I'm sure you'll agree that, contrary to what Utne says, "liberal" is not "enlightened." Unfettered liberalism is, well, evil.

As the most liberal city in America,"Ithaca is the City of Evil."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/799049/posts?page=14#14

[midnight armadillo]

45. Ithaca bucks!

Don't forget those!! Any city that uses its OWN CURRENCY is truly from hell :-)

[CAB]

2. Can I add Portland, Oregon

or the Peoples Republic of Portland as many in the US call us :)

[HootieMcBoob]

10. yup

I was gonna say Portland should be in there too. Excellent city. You would think these right winger types would eventually notice that the cities with the highest standards of living, with the most good jobs, etc. are always the ones that are the most progressive and liberal in their policies. The ones that are the most depressed, with the highest unemployment, etc. are always run by right wing republicans. But they just keep voting them into office. Think they'll ever learn?

[Bozita]

35. You said it, Hootie.

A bit partial toward Ann Arbor.

[Arugula Latte]

36. Hi CAB

Welcome to DU from a fellow Portlander! :toast:

[fabius]

38. Also known as Little Beirut by Poppy Bush

Bring 'em on! Well give 'em a warm welcome.

Also a lot of great beer up here.

Although Eugene is more radical, to be fair.

[GregW]

3. And don't forget Eugene, OR

Or "Berkeley North" as we are sometimes known ;)

[pepsi]

9. are ya goin?

Dear Greg,

Are you going to the country fair this weekend?

[wellstone_democrat]

27. Yes, The People's Republic of Eugene!

I spent an idyllic four years as an undergrad there. We had a city nuclear policy. We banned 'em.

[sandnsea]

40. Eugene!!!

But I'm in Florence which isn't *quite* the same, lol!

[TheBigGuy]

4. Do we even need a poll for this...

...everyone knows its The City.

[Terwilliger]

7. Detroit?

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

8. I think he means Metropolis.

:shrug:

[coralrf]

5. It would be best moved to the dumpster...

along with any other divisive message on this board. There is no best city for a progressive...progressives are best for all cities.

[Gringo]

13. Divisive?

It's a chance to cheer your favorite town, though I did stick in a dig at the city I hate most. It's hardly a heavyhanded, serious poll. I agree that progressives are best for their communities, but for those of us living in right-wing bastions, it's nice to dream of a life in a city where the majority embrace our ideals and we can express ourselves freely without being verbally freeped into submission.

[MissMillie]

11. Cambridge, MA

Often referred to as "The People's Republic of Cambridge" by conservatives who can't stand that their presence there is minute.

[StopTheMorans]

19. LOL

I didn't know that conservatives coined cambridge "the people's republic", I love that bar too! I just got off the T stop at Davis Sq. (right outside cambridge in somerville), and the first person I saw when I got outside was a guy in his young 20's with a shirt on that said "college republicans suck". i was over there to check out an apt. b/c I'm sick of living on the right side of the river;) I love cambridge, it should be on there:)!

[maveric]

25. I surprised Cambridge is not mentioned.

Or Boston for that fact.

[Quahog]

12. Not to pile on here

But I have to put in a vote for Providence, RI, whose newly-elected, openly gay mayor led the gay pride parade last month, flanked by two drag queens.

We tend to be fairly progressive here in RI.

[tinanator]

14. no Santa Cruz or Arcata?

pretty incomplete list there!
Write in vote- Santa Cruz best for progressives, centrists and conservatives, as long as you can afford it.

[Tinoire]

26. Is that where you are? n/t

[tinanator]

31. not since 1990

but I got to survive the quake which hit when my wife and I were in the absolute thick of it on the Pacific Garden Mall!

[Gringo]

34. Maybe I should have jut put "Bay Area"

And yeah, it's way too pricey. All the really cool liberal towns are. And all the inexpensive towns are rightwing hellholes. (Except for my hommetown of El Paso, TX, which is very inexpensive, and a clear majority democrat)

[classics]

15. I think you mean Wealthy Progressives.

Normal humans cant afford to live in places like SF any more.

[plurality]

16. haven't been there but...

many people who have tell me Ashville, NC is a progressive paradise. It's definitely on my places to visit/live list.

[Poll_Blind]

17. My vote is for Eugene...

To understand just how amazingly progressive Eugene is you just have to visit here sometime. I'm suprised we even have right turn signs in this town. :D

PB

[EOTE]

18. I don't see Madison, WI. on the list....

Take of this what you will, but even Nader got more votes than shrub in Madison. Great public transportation, State St., plenty of head shops. And don't forget the Badgers!

[bobthedrummer]

22. MADISON!

Yep, why not on list?

Draft MADISON!

[TahitiNut]

20. No poll without an "other" is valid.

:eyes:

[Gringo]

21. Very constructive. Thanks.

n/t

[leftofthedial]

23. Chicago

But the poll didn't appear to count my vote. I get a "you already voted" messagte, but the count didn't change from before I voted.

??

[Joe the Revelator]

28. Norfolk,VA

You wouldn't believe it, with the high Military population, but Norfolk VA has a well organised progressive movement in the downtown area.

[theHandpuppet]

43. No Way

I lived in the Ghent neighborhood of Norfolk for ten years and I still don't believe it. Any progressives there must be hiding under rocks. I couldn't wait to get out of there! Hell, there are more progressives here in rural WV!

[ThirdWheelLegend]

30. Cleveland is not bad, in the city and the west side.

Just ask Dennis Kucinich.

TWL

[ButterflyBlood]

32. Minneapolis should've gotten mentioned

n/t

[wheresthemind]

33. I'll second that...

woo, even though MN has been taking a slide!

[angka]

37. Boulder, CO

not like many progressives can afford to live there.

[ChadCoffman]

39. New York is hardly liberal. They keep electing republican mayors

[Must_B_Free]

41. Honolulu

is pretty progressive culturally.

[Scurrilous]

42. Key West, FL

The Conch Republic. "We Seceded Where Others Failed." Home to the laid-back progressive.

[theHandpuppet]

44. Burlington, Vermont!

When freepers die, they are sent to Burlington as their everlasting torment.