"The Arizona Taliban"

One of the commenters on the Talton post I just mentioned, “azrebel,” deserves special mention for an observation he or she made:

I have a theory. I’ll call it the Arizona Taliban.

For those of you who have not spent time in rural Arizona, let me tell you, you have no idea how much rural Arizona hates “The state of Maricopa”. They hate eveything about the valley and they hate all the millions of “ants” who live in the valley. Over the years, some of the craziest legislative measures have come from rural legislators. When you group the rural kooks along with the east Valley Mormon kooks and the west valley ultra-conservative kooks, you have a majority which can by design or ineptitude do immense damage to the state.

The Afghan Taliban regularly do things which shout out to the world – we are ignorant, we are uneducated, we are mindless religious, fanatical robots, we have guns and we will kill you all.

The Arizona Taliban, don’t use guns, they use votes.