Posted on 10/20/2022 5:32:06 AM PDT by MtnClimber
I spent the past week in Wisconsin and have seldom had the opportunity to see more vividly the red/blue divide in America. The urban areas are predominantly hard left while the rural areas are defiantly conservative.
My trip began in a suburb of Madison, Wisconsin.
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Out on the streets, many cars had Biden-Harris” bumper stickers still clinging to them. One car I managed to photograph even had a car version of the leftists’ beloved “in this house we believe” yard sign, ending with “kindness is everything.” Somehow that seemed at odds with the sticker showing the Marxist raised fist over an image of Africa. Cognitive dissonance never seems to bother the left.
At a local coffee shop, the barista was a very skinny man clocking in at about 6’4”. He had straggly, shoulder-length hair, and a mask, and spoke in a cracked, reedy voice. He was pleasant and helpful. A bit of an odd bird, I thought. It surprised me, although it probably shouldn’t have, to learn a short time later that this manifest man goes by “she/her” pronouns.
Things were different the moment my trip took me out of the big city. There were billboards everywhere with two themes: Jesus saves you and abortion is evil. Houses and businesses were festooned with American flags. Gun stores showed up in every small town. People had trucks and other sturdy cars, many with Trump bumper stickers.
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“When the mask mandates started, there were a lot of farming communities that said to hell with that. It was very pleasant to be around folks that “disobeyed” the orders.”
I live ONE county over from the INSANITY that is Dane County. It was the same for our farming community, too! Didn’t bother me one bit to not go to Madison for a VA appointment, or anything else for two whole years.
Best part about the covid sham, actually!
Also - how DID that virus know where the County Lines were? We had 21 deaths (all elderly, all with other health problems) in our county of 21K. If this was so virulent, why weren’t we ALL dead?
But, at least there were no more ‘mean tweets’ from President in Exile Trump. *SNORT*
That's why Democrats love the XVII Amendment.
I suggest we turn the big blue cities into states alllllll of their own. They’ll get maybe 12 new senators. And one congressmarxist each. And the previously existing 50 states will send nothing but Republicans to the Senate. Problem solved.
Yes. Voting districts, be they counties, parishes, or wards, should be allotted one elector. Elections should not be determined by a simple democratic mob plurality.
“States need electoral colleges, too.
The big cities determine virtually all statewide offices. Rural folk have no voice.”
Bingo... Absolutely. No tax representation either. All the revenue collected is spent in the major cities and there is never any left for rural areas. Rural areas never get back even 10% of what they pay into the system because the cities steal it all.
If a City incorporates they should no longer be eligible to receive county tax revenue. Let them live on what they collect locally within in that incorporated municipality.
The rest of the county should not have to pay to support that corporation with the bulk of revenue. Their own bed for incorporating, let them lie in it for the decision they made.
“It’s happening here in Oklahoma”
And those cities are about to lead the way in overthrowing a good Republican Governor and replacing him with a Democrat moron, with the help of a pair of 3rd-party loser candidates whose goal is also to get the Democrat elected.
Tulsa and OKC can’t get the job done all by themselves, so this project is getting a lot of assistance from supposedly good areas of the state too.
Stitt may have shot himself in the foot by putting recreational marijuana on the ballot March 2023. Stupid thing to do as even medical marijuana is creating tremendous problems for the state. I'll vote for him, but he's lost a lot of support because of it.
Oklahoma's got one of the highest rates of addiction per capita in the nation, and he wants to exacerbate it even further? Stupid.
However - I guarantee that Wisconsin will re-elect Senator Ron Johnson and our new Governor will be Tim Michels (R, WI).
Sorry, but not a chance that is happening. It would be great, though.
That wasn’t too bright. Especially if by authorizing that ballot initiative he expected to get “credit” for it from the doper community, who would therefore support his re-election bid in 2022.
A Republican who panders to Democrat constituencies (dopers, racists, abortionists, welfare queens, Organized Faggotry, etc.) of any kind ABSOLUTELY NEVER reaps any net benefit from doing so — the microscopic number of votes he gains from the pandering will be offset and much more by the truckload of votes he loses.
In a state like Oklahoma, Stitt merely needed to avoid doing anything breathtakingly stupid and he would have easily cruised to a second term. But apparently he just couldn’t resist or got some hideously bad advice.
“Not a chance”???
There’s definitely a chance, and a good one, that Johnson and Michels win.
Of course the good outcome is by no means whatsoever “guaranteed”, as the original posted stated. It is disappointing that Johnson finds himself in a close race with that empty monkey suit Democrat, and doesn’t speak well for Wisconsin.
But I’m in Pennsylvania, so I’m not in a position to criticize any other state for how their Senate and Governor elections are about to turn out.
The same in neighboring Minnesota. Virtually every TV ad for Democrat candidates screams that their GOP opponent is anti abortion. What else can the Democrats run on? Certainly they can’t say the economy is great, those millions of illegals are a plus for the country or that high gas prices are just a bump in the road to a green utopia.
Think they’ll just sit in their squlid apartment slums and just die? I see them in raiding parties into the breadbasket red areas where they’ll try and take everything not nailed down.
They won’t care about dying because that’s what they’re facing at home.
And reds are very scattered by demographics.
Better organize and store lots of ammo.
Chances are very slim for a Michels/Johnson win. I live in one of the most conservative areas. It is blanketed by Democrat signs for every race and very few Republican. Not scientific, but that combined with how close the race is does not bode well. Plus, they already have their tens of thousands of absentee ballots ready to drop in the middle of the night again.
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