straight ticket voting is a thing because the politicians have succesfully branded political discourse as any opposing view as an existential threat

so you MUST vote for your team

Hah, I was just grabbing a link to that: https://consequenceofsound.net/2020/09/transgender-metalhead-satanist-republican-nomination-county-sheriff/

Good job.

yeah but its new hampshire

oh nm county sheriff

I dunno how keene county leans

but if its a blue stronghold you can nominate a llama and it makes no difference

New Hampshire is ... interesting politically.

We really are a Union of 50 nation-states.

A California Republican is - I'd guess probably way more liberal than an Alabama Democrat.

thats being eroded with social media

It's more republican as you could presume.

we need to bring back the bull moose party

That's essentially what Trump is

Hardly.

Please don't rend the GOP because of Trump of all people.

I'd rather not live under one party rule if it can be avoided.

the GOP needs to be reformed

its nothing but the opposition party now

That's the DNC.

and they are content in that role

the DNC are quite good at seizing power

they are playing for keeps

the GOP keeps letting it happen

And the GOP has always been the party to oppose progress. That's kind of the idea of being conservative.

That's not about to change.

and thats the problem

And that's the problem.

lol

So you want to turn into Canada?

My exact wording, too

being the dnc of 10 years ago is not a platform

I don't know what Canada's politics look like, other than being badly more left than us (and actually relatively sane about short barreled rifles - until just recently I think?), but I do know the GOP needs to stand up for the working-class Americans that the DNC has left behind. Bring our jobs and industry back from China, put America first to stop selling us out to the megacorporations and China, and restore the Constitution.

And make life easier for small companies that have been all but wiped out in the greatest transfer of wealth in human history known as the Covid evisceration of the Constitution.

Canada's laws on firearms is anything but sane.

The ATF is a meme, but Canada is far, far more restrictive.

Oh yeah, in general they're awful, I just thought it was funny because in one very narrow point - short-barreled rifles - they were less restrictive than the US until just recently iirc.

Also the constitution wasn't rended with covid, it was rended long ago, and the tears have just gotten larger.

I don't disagree on that.

What has happened with covid is consistent to what happened literally 100 years ago.

When people are afraid, the government steps in to be the big brother and people let it.