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Oct 21, 2013

Maybe I'm a contrarian

Someone just told me that my support for Eli Cohen for mayor is only because I am a contrarian. This person continued with the theory saying that if I would be living in, say, the Sheinfeld neighborhood of Bet Shemesh I would almost definitely support Moshe Abutbol for mayor.

I don't deny that there might be a bit of truth in that. I always have liked, and often rooted for, the underdog... I would like to think that that is not the primary impetus within me, but I accept that it might be partly the source..




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6 comments:

  1. The folks in Sheinfeld are voting Abutbol? Why? Did Rav Avishai come out publicly in support of him?

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  2. No. Rafi is saying that maybe, since the Scheinfeld folks mostly support Eli Cohen, if he lived there he might, out of contrarian impulse, support Moshe Abutbul.

    Of course, a true "died in the wool" contrarian would support "Nach-Nach" Meir Balayish (at least in most neighborhoods of our fair city).

    Bivrachah,
    Catriel Lev (eagerly awaiting the conclusion of the elections so that we can begin discussing "normal" things again)

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  3. Normal things, the elimination of mountains of wasted paper garbaging up the streets and the eliminatin of the nightly noise-fest (whose brilliant idea was it to go around the streets honking and playing loud cajmpaign announcements and music at an hour people are trying to get kids to sleep. I almost reconsidered voting for Bayalish just because his campaign workers weren't annoying me!)

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  4. You're calling your contrarian bona fides into question by agreeing with your friend so readily....

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    1. correction: only partial agreement, and really only a musing about possible partial agreement

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    2. Still, I like my contrarians to be super-curmudgeony.

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