Some Utahns take pride, and others are appalled, depending on the issue, at the thought that politics here is somehow just really strange.
Take, for example, our ongoing fuss over whether, and how much, to expand the Medicaid health care program for the working poor. Utah’s fight has included the passage of Proposition 3, which would have dragged the state kicking and screaming into, if not the 21st century, then into the civilized world’s idea of the 20th. And, more recently, the move by the Utah Legislature to basically rip the lungs out of that voter-approved initiative and put in its place something cheap and deliberately hurtful.