re: #135 Brian J.
The food is grown on large factory farms that most rural people have no more to do with than most urban people.
The Republicans want to rob California, New York and Massachusetts; then they shouldnât be allowed to cadge funds for Alabama, Texas, or Wyoming. If they want to live without their âferal gummint,â let them experience the consequences!
You still havenât outlined your plan to airlift liberals out and provide us refugee status who didnât vote for this crapfest (or in state government didnât vote because there were no candidates).
This is how money distorts politics:
A couple years ago, my state legislature passed a bill to repeal the death penalty. The state governor vetoed it. Despite being majority conservatives, the legislature overrode the veto and the death penalty was repealed.
Then our new governor came in. He paid out of his own pocket to put a referendum on the ballot to reinstate the death penalty, then paid millions of dollars in advertising to support the referendum.
No Democratic Party pushback. The party let the Republicans go unchallenged. Quelle Surprise, the referendum overturned the legislature. (Pesky low voter turnout from liberals who apparently didnât care if the death penalty was reinstated or not.)
The state couldnât kill anyone on death row though (no drugs). The previous governor got caught out by the DEA (tipped off by UPS in India) that the drugs were being illegally imported, purchased illegally with state tax money.
Another example: The Keystone XL Pipeline. It was people in this red state that fought off the pipeline in the state supreme court. There werenât protestors from New York or Los Angeles at the statehouse protesting, though they were making lots of noise.
Round two is being fought now, and it appears that because the route approved was not correct, that TransCanada is going to abandon the project (though weâll breathe a sigh of relief when that happens).
If this was an issue of âwe get our money and screw the rest of the planet,â all those conservative hunters, fishers, ranchers, farmers, &c wouldnât be out there protesting this thing.