Massachusetts has a large number of voters who think like human beings. Sadly, they haven't been a majority for a long time. The majority sent one senator for several years who built a career on treason. He eventually became Secretary of State...not a good one in the roll call of Secretaries of State.
They sent a fat drunken blob as senator for another long time. He was successful in two skills...drinking and drowning mistresses.
Pocahontas isn't even a stretch.
In addition, I don't know for sure but suspect Massachusetts isn't all that different than my state (Minnesota) regarding statewide races. Here any statewide Republican candidate needs a minimum of 55% of the vote to barely eke out a win vs. the voter fraud. Trump came as close as anyone has for a while.
It is fixed in this state, and has been for a long, long time.
My dad was involved in local politics in this state, and he was the bane of the School Committee and Selectmen because he was a social and fiscal conservative...he was always the fly in the ointment, and we got plenty of profane and disgusting calls to the house for him back then. He was (I believe) a plankowner in “Citizens for Limited Taxation” in this state back around 1975 IIRC.
He had to run as a Democrat to even have a chance at a state office, and he did, even though he lost. That always fascinated me, that he would make that choice. I think that for him, it boiled down to the view that you can’t make changes unless you get in the door.
There is a lot to like about this area, but the politics is not one of those things. For a conservative, it is humiliating and disgusting.