You are so right.
A hateful place to live!
(I do gotta admit Max & Tester are a pair to draw to though...sheesh)
Not to speak of the People's Republics like Missoula, Bozeman, Butte and Helena.
From looking into finding a "compound" there, it's amazing how controlling the State is (through water rights adjudication and all sorts of land use tracking, etc.) along with very restrictive zoning ordinances/districts in some counties.
I laugh when I hear vacationers claiming that they are going back to "civilization" when they are headed to the airport after their ski vacation.
Civil control of the peeps in MT is often right up there with many lib majority States.