You live in IL like I do?
I hear ya!
I’m in southern Delaware, which is a “Red” area, thank God!
I have two Dems—Kauffman, who replaced the moron Biden(who is practically worshipped in the northern part of the state—he knows enough not to come visit us) and Carper, who i refer to as Seantor Me-Too, as he always voted the way Biden voted. Carper is a former governor of Delaware, while Kauffman was an executive assistant to Joe Biden for like 25 years, so Joe stiffed the entire Dem party in DE by selecting him as his Senate replacement instead of more faithful Dem party hacks, and the idiot grandma Governor Minner went along with it. Minner has now been succeeded with Jack Markell, who, for a Dem is actually pretty good—wish he were a Republican.
Like the country, the GOP got trounced in November here in Delaware. Biden won with 65% of the vote against a woman that the GOP didn’t even fund. That she got 35% was terrific, considering how Biden is revered in this state(don’t ask me why—I’m a transplant and I can’t figure it out).
I know in Illinois you have it as bad, with the traitor Durbin and the newly minted Burris.
But we’ll fight the good fight, won’t we?!
BTW—I love your tagline and share the sentiment totally.