Careful, Gramps, your privilege is showing. You may as well own it: if you want Grand Junction to return to the days of your childhood, that means you want it back in the 1950s and 60s, when Grand Junction had some of the most stringently enforced Sundown Laws in Colorado. You remember, those "good ol' days," when the KKK had its headquarters here?
Hey all you folks who want to move here and "ruin it," Gramps Bert is right. It IS terrible here. But not for the reasons he mentioned. It's terrible here because people fly confederate flags, have White Power stickers on their cars and vandalize yards with BLM signs. They'll run you off the road if you've got a bumper sticker endorsing a Democratic candidate. Oh, you might find a few liberals over by the university, but most of the people here are small-minded, white supremacist, COVID-deniers. It's June 2021, we are still a COVID hotspot, and only 36% of the Valley residents are vaccinated because they think it was a HOAX.
Do you care about climate change? Don't move here, this is a fracking town. Windmills cause cancer, doncha know? Just ask any of the maskless roughnecks mobbing the liquor stores every day around 5 p.m. when they come in from the field. They're easy to spot: driving HUGE gas-guzzling pickup trucks with decals bragging about their right to own military-grade weapons. Go ahead, ask them about their carbon footprint, or if they're worried about their rigs desecrating sacred Native American land. See if they want to go out for vegan food, maybe talk about women's rights. These guys are Grandpa Bert's idea of Grand Junction's ideal citizens.
This town is perfect ... IF you're a roughneck, or a super-entitled trust fund kid, or a person who thinks there should be no separation between church and state. But if you care about human rights, or equal rights or a woman's right to choose, steer clear.
All of society's ills are well-represented here -- homelessness, unemployment, crime, youth suicide, (and did I mention the District 51's low-rated schools? Look it up.) But these problems are caused by the folks who want to keep tax dollars from helping the people who need and paid for tax-funded programs -- people who vote like Grampa Bert.
Now don't get yourselves in an uproar because I'm calling him Grandpa Bert. I'm on Social Security. Moved here to retire but I'm leaving because I can't stand the small-minded crazies. If you have any doubt that this place is full of them, look no further than our 3rd District Representative, Lauren Boebert. She won by a landslide here. If she's your idea of a brainiac, you'll love it here. Otherwise, do your research. Durango or Fort Collins will suit you better.
Katiye |
Palisade, CO |
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