That’s not exactly true. Just look at the recent state congress passing more anti-voting laws. Trust me when I say if the voting laws where ripped away from states and an even tempered law that allows for absentee voting, early voting, no ID requirements, etc., were to happen it would be the end of the GOP as we know… Read more

The left SHOULD “coddle” the general public. Caring about people is what makes the left better than the right. The dems problem isn’t that they aren’t shitty enough to republican voters. It’s that they aren’t cutthroat enough when dealing with republican politicians.  Read more

Im really glad to see this take. I’m a blue voter who moved to a red state just before the pandemic. As such, I have been essentially trapped in my home for an ugly election and a brutal pandemic. The urge to fear and hate my neighbors & my community (that I have yet to really be any part of) because they are… Read more

“sereptitiously takes her fathers place” Read more

All right, since the idea that maybe letting people die of plague might be just wrong is wasted on some people, let’s try some good old Randian self-interest. Read more

Keith Olbermann would be the first person to say “not all white people” or “not all men” but is confident enough to say all people in states with conservative leadership should die. Does he forget we have a Republican president ever 8 years? Read more

The population is not a monolith. In the last election, with approx. 53% turnout, 3.5 million people voted for Abbott’s Democratic challenger. What would those numbers have looked like without voter suppression? What about a better-educated populace? One of Ashley’s points, as i read, is was don’t shit on the people,… Read more

I read a touching story about a young girl in a red state who opened a lemonade stand to pay for her medical treatment and all I could really think about was who her family voted for and who she was going to vote for when she grew up. Read more

Thanks for this, it feels like empathy is hard to come by these days Read more

I’m not sure what that has to do with this struggling child and her family who you seem unable to to muster any empathy for, except they happen to live in a “red state.” Read more

Exactly. As a person with Black relatives in red states (like many mannnyyy Black people have cuz of you know the history of this country) jokes about how red states are useless, stupid and disposable simply because of their republican leaders are very annoying. People do this every damn election year with Florida and… Read more

I think one problem with America might be the mindset that lets you see a struggling, desperate little girl, and instead of thinking about the fucked up system that put her and her family in that situation, your mind was primarily (exclusively?) concerned with was whether her family was even deserving of sympathy at… Read more

That is absolutely fair and I would not advocate cutting off a state from resources just because it’s got an asshole Republican representatives - even when I clearly remember people like Ted Cruz voting against Sandy relief. AOC is a saint for the work she’s put in recently.  Read more

Just at a numbers level, it’s indefensible too (leaving aside, you know, it’s fucking morally wrong to begin with as well)... Read more

Word, to all of this. Read more

Reminder that “Red States” like Texas are only “Red States” because of voter suppression. But sure “the high road”. Read more

I’m not a right wing, and I live in Texas. I vote blue, my husband, parents, brother and his wife, all vote blue. Half of this state is blue. You're not helping us by proving to the Republicans that Democrats are as hateful and blood-thirsty as they are... you're literally saying that you don't give a shit if we die.… Read more

Right. I forgot. Michigan and New York have never had idiot Republican governors. Read more

While yes the population at some point has to be responsible for who they elect, we can’t ignore voting issues in this situation either. Some of the most red areas have large minority populations who are discouraged from voting. Read more