As a citizen, I feel completely unrepresented, and have my entire adult life, which is perhaps why I pay more attention to national elections and their results.
This state is lost, it is in the thrall of Leftists, and they have done over the last forty years at the State level what the Left is now trying to do at the national level. They have made it impossible for a real conservative to win election in this state.
My father, who ran for local office back in the Seventies and Eighties, knew this full well. I believe he was a plank owner in Citizens for Limited Taxation, and was a conservative in every sense of the word.
But he knew he could not win any office as a Republican, so he ran as a Democrat, which at the time didn’t raise an eyebrow on me, but looking back, makes me laugh a bit.
I love this region. The weather. The museums. The History. The mountains. The beaches.
But I despise and detest the corrupt Leftist politicians and politics in this state. The reprehensible, criminal politicians in this state are like a Murderer’s Row (in the case of Ted Kennedy, a real Murdering Row) of Leftist Icons.
Kennedy. Kerry. Frank. Warren. Studds. Romney. So many more I can’t even name them.
I remember, Citizens for Limited Taxation was one of the great victories of conservatives in Mass.
If your Dad was part of that, he accomplished something great.