Posted on 03/21/2023 5:30:16 AM PDT by cotton1706
At just 21 years old, Mallerie Stromswold had burned out from public service during her sophomore term in the Montana legislature.
She says it boiled down to a few things — the high cost of housing and juggling school and work. But most of all, she felt a decline in her mental well-being.
"When you're struggling with that, and then decide to throw on the challenges of serving," it becomes a lot, the young Republican says, "especially the way I chose to serve."
Stromswold voted against her fellow Republicans' efforts to limit the rights of transgender Montanans and for a Democrat's bill aiming to protect the rights of minors. Her style of serving, she says, "was not aligned with how those around me would have preferred me to at times."
It all became too much and Stromswold announced her resignation earlier this year. "I'm big on principles more than anything. If you're going to say, 'it's my body, my choice, it's my body, my choice, it's my body, choice with everything,' " she says.
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I wonder (I read the article) what this author has to say about New York or California or Massachusetts? This standard that is being used towards Montana should be used with other states as well, shouldn’t it?
“it’s my body, my choice, it’s my body, my choice, it’s my body, choice with everything,’ “ she says.”
Does that include the body of the unborn, Mallerie? Your leaving politics will be a net plus for Montana.
Sniff, sniff. Welcome to adulthood, dearie.
I can just hear those sniveling, whiny, whimpering, feminized male NPR announcers in my head reading this story. Why does every NPR announcer sound just like every other one? Are they all required to attend NPR's "Sniveling, Whiny News Reader School" to get the job?
The under 35 set are truly a special bunch of snowflakes. I blame the parents who from the child’s infancy, treated the children with kid gloves out of guilt from divorce, broken homes.
They let the kids have 100% adult authority from toddlerhood and gave them 0% responsibility/accountability to the point where we have “royal” kidults who don’t like “adulting,” have no empathy for anyone but themselves and are a bunch of whinging sociopaths.
In the French revolution, things proceeded ever leftwards until Napoleon stepped in and took over.
Children are not adults.
As if a 21 year old would have special insights into what Montanans really need.
In other words, she went to the legislature as a naive, innocent waif, got introduced to real-world hardball politics and couldn't take it. It's better she cut and run now because she is clearly not cut out for the rough and tumble game.
Go back and read that again. You left something out.
hehehe, she wasn’t a moderate... she was a rino.
World’s shortest book: Great Moderates In History
Moderate = squish.
NPR LOL!!!!
21 years old? wtf. She should grow up first.
Exactly right. We’ve got three kids, mid- to early-30s. The eldest are two girls who were taught how to work hard and get ahead. They are doing well. Our third, a son, is not doing as well which is sad. Same upbringing for all three.
I’d wager the young woman in this story was not raised on a Montana ranch.
The little snowflake needs to be drummed out of the party. Transgenders, and any other freak perverts, do not need additional rights not already provided by God and protected by the US Constitution.
Screw moderation. Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.
So moderate means a “Republican” who votes like a slightly less psychotic DemocRAT.
“””But most of all, she felt a decline in her mental well-being”””
Here is another example that being progressive is a mental disease.
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