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albacore

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17. One problem...

Reply to CrispyQ (Reply #4)

Sun Jan 9, 2022, 04:18 PM

Jan 2022

The Repubs pick their people with an eye to extremism. And availability.
While Dems are working and living their lives, the Repub extremists are ... plotting is the only word I can think of.
She's part owner of a business, and she's got the time.
Look at all their candidates that are like this.... all of them have lots of time and lots of paranoid activism.
It's the same reason Leftwing radio doesn't work. Most of us don't have the time, and we don't need the constant drumbeat of activism.
We just want to live.
And also.... who is brave/foolhardy enough to oppose those creatures in these local elections? Have you noticed the rise in threats to local officials?

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