This is exactly why I am loathe to spend even a dime in the state of Aryzona. When we went through a on our last trip to Texas from Nevada, we tried to only buy gas and some quick drinks and snacks.
The place is a mass bucket of hate. I've been there to do projects at my old job many a time and it has gotten much more angry and vile in just a short period of time.
I've had to unfriend people I know who live there who have turned into angry bigots and use a twisted form of Christianity to justify it. The culture of the place is apparently built to make hate a viable source of life, like oxygen.
They keep making heroes out of people dedicated to humiliating others, to making skin color a crime. Jan Brewer. Joe Arpaio. Jon Kyl. That Trent Franks asshole who keeps pushing conservative talking points instead of concentrating on how his fellow legislator was the target of a terrorist attack. That quisling McCain who gave us the glory that is Sarah Palin and refused to muzzle her violent hate speech when he had a chance.
Don't get me wrong. The Grand Canyon is beautiful. Tucson is an interesting place. Flagstaff is gorgeous. Payson is a great place to relax.
Snowball is, however, full of assholes.
And apparently, so is much of the rest of the place.
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