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"Has anyone noticed Arnold Hamilton’s uncanny ability to reduce conservatives to members of one of three (very marginalized) groups: evil corporatists who greedily sacrifice widows and orphans for profits, angry rednecks spoilin’ for a fight, or religious zealots obsessed with someone else's moral turpitude? One (or all) of these groups sparks the ire in every column he writes.
Apparently state Republican Chairman Matt Pinnell’s tempest-in-a-teapot complaints about the Oklahoma Democratic Party really got Hamilton’s goat. But how many people (with a life) care what the New York Times thinks of Oklahoma? Oklahoma could convert every toll road into a bike trail, replace every fast food restaurant with a Whole Foods, turn every church into a Wiccan temple, authorize man-beast weddings, and legalize drive-through abortions, but people who read the NYT would still characterize Oklahomans as flyover state rubes.
After decades of bungling the state’s business, folks lost patience and Democrats were finally voted out of office. This has Hamilton in a perpetual snit. The truth is, choosing between Democrats and Republicans is like having a choice between two – and only two – brands of laundry detergent, neither of which will actually get your clothes clean. So we helplessly switch back and forth between the two, hoping that someday one of them will finally be able to purge the fudge from our underwear. Neither one ever can.
If Governor Fallin and company, along with a Republican-controlled state house can’t make meaningful, positive changes for this state, it’s not exactly like the good people of Oklahoma aren’t keeping score. If they fail they will be (and should be) voted out. Then maybe Brand B will get yet another chance to prove what it can’t do. That should make Arnold happy.
Rinse, repeat."
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