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What mystifies me watching all this is that Democrats continue to insist that they need to run ~~conservative~~ centrist candidates, but Republicans in Missouri got elected by people who definitively supported the Bernie Sanders platform of economic equality.
Dems love to call the voters stupid, but from where I'm sitting, the party machine is the idiot in this equation.
The counterargument is that Missourians keep passing progressive ballot measures while simultaneously voting for people who vocally oppose said measures and immediately repeal them because they see politics as a team sport rather than anything that actually affects them. A progressive message might speak to these voters, but voting R is, some reason, as baked into their identity as rooting for the Tigers is.
It just depends on who turns out more voters: KC/STL/Springfield or the rural areas.
In the 90's and early 00's, Missouri was a battleground state that generally elected Democrats. It's easier to elect Republicans here because we legalized gerrymandering a few years ago, and I don't expect that to change in the near-term. The assholes in Jeff City have done a great job blunting the political power of Kansas City and St. Louis.
Unless they aren't actually trying to win and they are just controlled by corporate interests to be controlled opposition.
When you're right, you're right.
That reminds me... remember how California voted to legalize psilocybe mushrooms a couple of years ago, but then Gavin vetoed it? ( Fuck that guy. )
He's a motherfucker in the vein of Barack Obama.
Pretends to be a progressive and gives good speeches, plus has a fairly likable persona, but his votes and political activities definitely show him for who he really is.
It's because the Democrats are complicit in the Duopoly being used to fleece the American people
No you were pretty right the first time I don't know why you changed it.
If voters were smart neither groups would be in power