I couldn’t make myself vote for Biden. But last year I was desperate for anyone but Trump, and the Republican primaries didn’t excite me either. I voted Harris.

Them not showing IDs is trouble brewing. The first case of self defense against unbadged law enforcement will turn this country inside out no matter how the ruling comes down.

I think it’s disingenuous to believe they have a nice, neat list of names and addresses and all they need to do is knock on a few doors. ICE has done some pretty underhanded stuff taking people at immigration courts, but I don’t think they have a list of murderers and choose to leave them free.

I don’t regret voting for McCain

I don’t like political labels. There’s too many false dichotomies. Conservative is the one that I feel describes me best, though. Things can change, but I appreciate them more when they change slowly. If nobody is the voice of reason in the room, things can change too quickly for me and I believe for all of us. Before too long we won’t recognize ourselves in the mirror.

Is allowing any progress too progressive?

I guess there are a few people I want to set myself apart from: bigots, nationalists, fascists, that ilk.

They are the loudest assholes at the moment. So I’m setting out to make and be something different. I’m hedging my bets on not being alone. I don’t think it’s radical to say that we shouldn’t start wars on a whim and we shouldn’t snatch people up at their legalization court hearings. Where I lose some people in my neck of the woods is that I couldn’t care less what sex or gender they are. What they tell me is good enough. Want to change it? You do you. I’m already married to the one person who’s genitals I’m going to have any preference about. And as long as they only pull it out at home, I don’t care what’s in their pants. This gets filed under “freedom” for me. Simple.

I’m not interested in setting myself apart from anybody else. I believe that’s a part of how we got into our current constitutional crisis.

Something closer to an actual answer to your question might be that I value strong institutions over strong government. I believe in the collection of experts more than the accuracy of the masses. Since we’ll never elect experts on “How to Human” it’s better we ask everybody, hence democracy, but infrastructure isn’t a place where we can have everybody paint the shed. I want to believe in a free market where companies and consumers can converse better than “did the consumers buy it or not.” The dollar is not god.

I want to establish early that posting negative things the administration or conservative talking heads do is fine. This is not a pro-conservative/anti-democrat comm.

The quality of the party is dependent on what they do, not what they claim to stand for. This action is abhorrent and utterly unAmerican.