Help me understand Republican women in their 30s and 40s

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Anonymous wrote:In general, single women are overwhelmingly democrats and married women are 50/50ish. It's odd that none of this discussion has centered on why married women may have voting preferences that align with male voting patterns, except the bizarre and misogynistic conclusion that women are brainless and will do as their husbands instruct.

Married women tend to have more in common with men because marriage causes them to be a unit and their interests are united. A married woman has no interest in males being discriminated against, etc.

It is interesting. I think it's because many married women have children, and so they're more plugged into community issues - public safety, schools, cost of groceries etc. And Democrats tend to be on the wrong side of everyday quality of life issues - particularly schools and crime.

This is such BS.

Where’s the lie? It’s true. Democrats have abandoned every day quality of life issues for working and middle class people in particular.

And... more GOP propaganda.

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Anonymous wrote:In general, single women are overwhelmingly democrats and married women are 50/50ish. It's odd that none of this discussion has centered on why married women may have voting preferences that align with male voting patterns, except the bizarre and misogynistic conclusion that women are brainless and will do as their husbands instruct.

Married women tend to have more in common with men because marriage causes them to be a unit and their interests are united. A married woman has no interest in males being discriminated against, etc.

It is interesting. I think it's because many married women have children, and so they're more plugged into community issues - public safety, schools, cost of groceries etc. And Democrats tend to be on the wrong side of everyday quality of life issues - particularly schools and crime.

This.

When I was single, I didn’t care nearly enough about schools, inflation, cost of living, immigration, or any other political issue for them to affect my voting. I didn’t even understand what school choice was, beyond knowing it was bad primarily because that’s what everyone in my Crown Heights circle thought and I didn’t care enough to look too hard into it. Naturally, I voted D.

Then I had an autistic child in a terrible school district with classrooms overcrowded due to a mass influx of undocumented immigrants, where every kid with any disability that needed accommodation was herded into one classroom and basically babysat. Popular wisdom in my area was that “privileged” parents like me should make do with public schools cuz like privates are bad and leaving meant I was racist. While I was trying to figure out what to do, the pandemic hit, and schools shut down, leaving me to educate a multiply disabled child basically by myself (good luck virtually educating kids like mine) and Dems kept schools closed long after the harms were documented. I got outta NY so fast to a southern state were life was still allowed to go on and where I had my pick of schools regardless of where I lived. Suddenly, school choice made sense. Educational policy and immigration became very real issues to me, and I could have slapped all my former Brooklynite friends who thought keeping schools closed indefinitely was totally fine.

Inflation hit us very hard because we needed every dollar for my son’s therapies and then later for serious health problems I developed. All the monied Democrats I knew telling me that inflation is a non-issue made me want to kill someone.

Life comes at you fast when you have children, a mortgage, and a whole life beyond pie in the sky foolishness to consider. I’m done with Democrats. Never ever thought I’d say that 10 years ago as a single woman.

None of this surprises me.
You were clueless when you were a democrat, and you’re still clueless as a republican.
Story is very consistent.

What an insightful and intelligent opinion. You’re clearly a deep thinker.

When someone writes a bunch of BS, they get a short, dismissive response. Not a dissertation. You don't deserve that kind of time with your nonsense.

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Anonymous wrote:In general, single women are overwhelmingly democrats and married women are 50/50ish. It's odd that none of this discussion has centered on why married women may have voting preferences that align with male voting patterns, except the bizarre and misogynistic conclusion that women are brainless and will do as their husbands instruct.

Married women tend to have more in common with men because marriage causes them to be a unit and their interests are united. A married woman has no interest in males being discriminated against, etc.

It is interesting. I think it's because many married women have children, and so they're more plugged into community issues - public safety, schools, cost of groceries etc. And Democrats tend to be on the wrong side of everyday quality of life issues - particularly schools and crime.

This is such BS.

Where’s the lie? It’s true. Democrats have abandoned every day quality of life issues for working and middle class people in particular.

Let's start with the ACA. Before that, there was no real option for health insurance outside of employment groups. Now thousands of small business owners can get insurance plans for their families. It is far from perfect but it it is a huge improvement over the time before it existed.

Small business optimism is as low as it was in 2008 during the Great Recession.

Democrats hate small business, as far as I have ever seen.

The comment is about health insurance and how to get it. Read the post.

I did. That poster asserted that the ACA was great for small business owners as an example of how Democrats haven't abandoned working and middle class people.

Small business owners are not focused on the ACA. They were decimated by Democrat-led shutdowns of industry during the pandemic, inflation resulting from both Trump and Biden's spending bills, and the subsequent high borrowing costs as the Fed fights high inflation.

The ACA is not a current focus of small business owners and their families.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not going to convince any right wing republicans of anything, so I am just waiting for them to fool around and find out. Not sure they are going to like what's coming for them too, if a republican actually gets elected this time.

Candidly, as a Democrat I was assured that the entire country would fail if Trump became president and that objectively did not happen.

We did have a pandemic. And nationwide race riots. I dunno about you, but I didn't enjoy all that.

Tell us how Trump caused a global pandemic that originated from China.

Cause? No. Made exponentially worse because of his completely inept response? Hell yes.

Funny how none of the blindly partisan Democrats in this thread have been willing to say with any specifics how Hilary Clinton was going to stop the spread of the virus in China, India, or the rest of the world.

I am still looking forward to learning about those plans! 👍 It’s amazing how Hilary apparently had the ability to stop a global pandemic. Can’t wait to hear how!

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In other words, the exact opposite of what Trump spent his time on in 2020.

Specifics. How specifically was Hilary going to stop the spread of Covid in countries outside the US and stop a global pandemic? That’s the claim you Democrats are making. I want the exact plan that would have halted the spread of the virus. You say it exists. So share it.

NP: Given that the GOP doesn't even have a platform, you may want to start fixing up your own house first before you start pointing fingers.

Democrats in this thread have said that Hilary would have stopped the Covid-19 pandemic globally. They are the ones who made that claim. Are you now backing down from that claim?

Who said that?

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Anonymous wrote:In general, single women are overwhelmingly democrats and married women are 50/50ish. It's odd that none of this discussion has centered on why married women may have voting preferences that align with male voting patterns, except the bizarre and misogynistic conclusion that women are brainless and will do as their husbands instruct.

Married women tend to have more in common with men because marriage causes them to be a unit and their interests are united. A married woman has no interest in males being discriminated against, etc.

It is interesting. I think it's because many married women have children, and so they're more plugged into community issues - public safety, schools, cost of groceries etc. And Democrats tend to be on the wrong side of everyday quality of life issues - particularly schools and crime.

This is such BS.

Where’s the lie? It’s true. Democrats have abandoned every day quality of life issues for working and middle class people in particular.

Let's start with the ACA. Before that, there was no real option for health insurance outside of employment groups. Now thousands of small business owners can get insurance plans for their families. It is far from perfect but it it is a huge improvement over the time before it existed.

Small business optimism is as low as it was in 2008 during the Great Recession.

Democrats hate small business, as far as I have ever seen.

The comment is about health insurance and how to get it. Read the post.

I did. That poster asserted that the ACA was great for small business owners as an example of how Democrats haven't abandoned working and middle class people.

Small business owners are not focused on the ACA. They were decimated by Democrat-led shutdowns of industry during the pandemic, inflation resulting from both Trump and Biden's spending bills, and the subsequent high borrowing costs as the Fed fights high inflation.

The ACA is not a current focus of small business owners and their families.

Do you realize the policies Trump is proposing will make inflation WORSE, not better?

Can any of you GOP people read and use reason. Honestly.

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Anonymous wrote:Have always been a Democrat but the left has moved so far left that I now seem to be on the Right. Main reason for me is the gender ideology the Left espouses. Just too shocking for me who wants the nuclear family intact. I respect all views and ok with each following their own as long as you don’t harm anyone but coming after kids is unacceptable. So grudgingly I will vote Trump and will identify as a new Republican

Don't believe you.

Yet another thing that makes people sick of the left. Constantly accusing people of lying because you don't like what they have to say.

+1

The fact they can never provide accurate quotes when asked in this thread is notable.

And the GOP supporters are so full of facts.....ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. You guys are delusional. All the reason people are giving are based on GOP fear-mongering. Immigrants! Trans people! blah blah blah.

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Anonymous wrote:Have always been a Democrat but the left has moved so far left that I now seem to be on the Right. Main reason for me is the gender ideology the Left espouses. Just too shocking for me who wants the nuclear family intact. I respect all views and ok with each following their own as long as you don’t harm anyone but coming after kids is unacceptable. So grudgingly I will vote Trump and will identify as a new Republican

The whole "nuclear family" concept is a relatively recent one, and I think it's done a lot more damage than good. In my grandparents' time, instead of the nuclear family, it was the more traditional extended family where multiple generations might all live in the same house, where it was more about "it takes a village" with family members right there helping each other out, where it was much easier for grandparents to take care of the kids while the parents were working, and so on. But with the nuclear family, it's just parents and kids, typically far flung and scattered around, for lack of grandparents to watch the kids they get shuttled off to the hands of strangers in some expensive childcare and so on.

DP. So, uh, you think the state should step in to raise kids or something? 😳

If that’s what Democrats stand for, no thank you.

[citation needed] - Exactly when did Obama, Pelosi, Schumer, Joe Biden, Hakeem Jeffries or any Democrat that matters ever say that families should be abolished and that all children should be raised by the state?

This must be the fourth or fifth post now where someone stated something along the lines of "I am no longer a Democrat because because of [insert false Republican propaganda strawman here]"

It seems like you aren’t following the point of this thread. It’s for people who identify as a republican to explain their views and yes that is going to include people who were formerly democrats. That’s literally what OP was asking to learn about - what persuaded them to become GOP. The fact that it’s hard for you to understand isn’t the point; they are sharing their own opinions.

It's not really explaining one's views when one says "I believe up is down and red is blue" and not being able to explain themselves when their views are exposed as counterfactual or contradictory.

Liberals always think they are the only ones knowledgeable and everyone else is misinformed even when people are trying to explain why they left the party. It’s exhausting. Maybe try listening and then you wouldn’t have a nominee that polls behind a convicted felon.

Liberals are tired of trying to argue with crazy. We can't have good faith conversations with MAGA GOP people anymore. Your points of view are based on fiction. There is just nowhere to go when you are in your la-la-land where you refuse to acknowledge basic facts.

So, yes, we feel like the only ones who are informed and knowledgeable. What I wouldn't give to encounter an old-school conservative who would have a real discussion based in reality.

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Anonymous wrote:In general, single women are overwhelmingly democrats and married women are 50/50ish. It's odd that none of this discussion has centered on why married women may have voting preferences that align with male voting patterns, except the bizarre and misogynistic conclusion that women are brainless and will do as their husbands instruct.

Married women tend to have more in common with men because marriage causes them to be a unit and their interests are united. A married woman has no interest in males being discriminated against, etc.

It is interesting. I think it's because many married women have children, and so they're more plugged into community issues - public safety, schools, cost of groceries etc. And Democrats tend to be on the wrong side of everyday quality of life issues - particularly schools and crime.

This.

When I was single, I didn’t care nearly enough about schools, inflation, cost of living, immigration, or any other political issue for them to affect my voting. I didn’t even understand what school choice was, beyond knowing it was bad primarily because that’s what everyone in my Crown Heights circle thought and I didn’t care enough to look too hard into it. Naturally, I voted D.

Then I had an autistic child in a terrible school district with classrooms overcrowded due to a mass influx of undocumented immigrants, where every kid with any disability that needed accommodation was herded into one classroom and basically babysat. Popular wisdom in my area was that “privileged” parents like me should make do with public schools cuz like privates are bad and leaving meant I was racist. While I was trying to figure out what to do, the pandemic hit, and schools shut down, leaving me to educate a multiply disabled child basically by myself (good luck virtually educating kids like mine) and Dems kept schools closed long after the harms were documented. I got outta NY so fast to a southern state were life was still allowed to go on and where I had my pick of schools regardless of where I lived. Suddenly, school choice made sense. Educational policy and immigration became very real issues to me, and I could have slapped all my former Brooklynite friends who thought keeping schools closed indefinitely was totally fine.

Inflation hit us very hard because we needed every dollar for my son’s therapies and then later for serious health problems I developed. All the monied Democrats I knew telling me that inflation is a non-issue made me want to kill someone.

Life comes at you fast when you have children, a mortgage, and a whole life beyond pie in the sky foolishness to consider. I’m done with Democrats. Never ever thought I’d say that 10 years ago as a single woman.

Your story will to be too complex and nuanced for the Democrats on this thread who desperately believe Hilary Clinton has magical powers, but thank you for sharing.

You are both nuts. You GOP nutters are the ones obsessed with Hillary Clinton all these years later. And you think the GOP will help with schools? Are you high? Have you paid no attention to what THEY have been doing to public education in this country for the past several decades. And they TALK about immigration all the time, but they never actually do anything? Nope. Why would they? It's just a tool they use to whip you people into a froth and get you to vote GOP. Fear-mongering and empty promises.

Answer after answer from GOP women = we hate immigrants and we are still traumatized by the pandemic to the point that we can't even remember what actually happened. Do you wake in the night screaming "shutdowns!!!" It's 2024. There is no pandemic now. No one is threatening shut downs. Good Lord, you people need therapy and cult deprogramming.

Insinuating you, as supporters of the GOP, understand nuance is...hysterical.

Some of us don't have the attention spans of gnats. There has been no acknowledgment of the huge policy mistakes made during the pandemic. We have seen democrats double down again and again that all the shut downs and other policies during covid were the only reasonable choice.

When the government and public health officials say they did everything right and refuse to address the impact of tradeoffs made during the pandemic, why would we have confidence that anything would be improved during future similar circumstances, like a bird flu, which has been shutting down dairy farms recently.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not going to convince any right wing republicans of anything, so I am just waiting for them to fool around and find out. Not sure they are going to like what's coming for them too, if a republican actually gets elected this time.

Candidly, as a Democrat I was assured that the entire country would fail if Trump became president and that objectively did not happen.

We did have a pandemic. And nationwide race riots. I dunno about you, but I didn't enjoy all that.

Tell us how Trump caused a global pandemic that originated from China.

Cause? No. Made exponentially worse because of his completely inept response? Hell yes.

Funny how none of the blindly partisan Democrats in this thread have been willing to say with any specifics how Hilary Clinton was going to stop the spread of the virus in China, India, or the rest of the world.

I am still looking forward to learning about those plans! 👍 It’s amazing how Hilary apparently had the ability to stop a global pandemic. Can’t wait to hear how!

Leadership
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Coordination
Delegation
Decisiveness
Management
Oversight
Logistics
Communication

In other words, the exact opposite of what Trump spent his time on in 2020.

Specifics. How specifically was Hilary going to stop the spread of Covid in countries outside the US and stop a global pandemic? That’s the claim you Democrats are making. I want the exact plan that would have halted the spread of the virus. You say it exists. So share it.

NP: Given that the GOP doesn't even have a platform, you may want to start fixing up your own house first before you start pointing fingers.

Democrats in this thread have said that Hilary would have stopped the Covid-19 pandemic globally. They are the ones who made that claim. Are you now backing down from that claim?

Who said that?

Here is one example but there are also others:

Hilary would have used America’s power in international organizations to coordinate a speedy response. Hilary would have managed it the way previous presidents (Bush and SARS, Obama and MERS) did previous air borne viruses and it probably could’ve been managed and we wouldn’t have had a global pandemic and all of its losses and consequences.

I mean I think it’s kind of amazing Hilary inspires magical thinking like this to this day.

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Anonymous wrote:In general, single women are overwhelmingly democrats and married women are 50/50ish. It's odd that none of this discussion has centered on why married women may have voting preferences that align with male voting patterns, except the bizarre and misogynistic conclusion that women are brainless and will do as their husbands instruct.

Married women tend to have more in common with men because marriage causes them to be a unit and their interests are united. A married woman has no interest in males being discriminated against, etc.

It is interesting. I think it's because many married women have children, and so they're more plugged into community issues - public safety, schools, cost of groceries etc. And Democrats tend to be on the wrong side of everyday quality of life issues - particularly schools and crime.

This is such BS.

Where’s the lie? It’s true. Democrats have abandoned every day quality of life issues for working and middle class people in particular.

Let's start with the ACA. Before that, there was no real option for health insurance outside of employment groups. Now thousands of small business owners can get insurance plans for their families. It is far from perfect but it it is a huge improvement over the time before it existed.

Small business optimism is as low as it was in 2008 during the Great Recession.

Democrats hate small business, as far as I have ever seen.

The comment is about health insurance and how to get it. Read the post.

I did. That poster asserted that the ACA was great for small business owners as an example of how Democrats haven't abandoned working and middle class people.

Small business owners are not focused on the ACA. They were decimated by Democrat-led shutdowns of industry during the pandemic, inflation resulting from both Trump and Biden's spending bills, and the subsequent high borrowing costs as the Fed fights high inflation.

The ACA is not a current focus of small business owners and their families.

What is the GOP plan for health insurance coverage? What is it called? What does it cost? What does it cover? How do you buy it?

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Anonymous wrote:Have always been a Democrat but the left has moved so far left that I now seem to be on the Right. Main reason for me is the gender ideology the Left espouses. Just too shocking for me who wants the nuclear family intact. I respect all views and ok with each following their own as long as you don’t harm anyone but coming after kids is unacceptable. So grudgingly I will vote Trump and will identify as a new Republican

Don't believe you.

Yet another thing that makes people sick of the left. Constantly accusing people of lying because you don't like what they have to say.

+1

The fact they can never provide accurate quotes when asked in this thread is notable.

And the GOP supporters are so full of facts.....ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. You guys are delusional. All the reason people are giving are based on GOP fear-mongering. Immigrants! Trans people! blah blah blah.

Well, in this particular thread, the Democratic supporters have been asked multiple times to provide exact quotes to support their posts, and they never do, so 🤷‍♂️

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Anonymous wrote:In general, single women are overwhelmingly democrats and married women are 50/50ish. It's odd that none of this discussion has centered on why married women may have voting preferences that align with male voting patterns, except the bizarre and misogynistic conclusion that women are brainless and will do as their husbands instruct.

Married women tend to have more in common with men because marriage causes them to be a unit and their interests are united. A married woman has no interest in males being discriminated against, etc.

It is interesting. I think it's because many married women have children, and so they're more plugged into community issues - public safety, schools, cost of groceries etc. And Democrats tend to be on the wrong side of everyday quality of life issues - particularly schools and crime.

This.

When I was single, I didn’t care nearly enough about schools, inflation, cost of living, immigration, or any other political issue for them to affect my voting. I didn’t even understand what school choice was, beyond knowing it was bad primarily because that’s what everyone in my Crown Heights circle thought and I didn’t care enough to look too hard into it. Naturally, I voted D.

Then I had an autistic child in a terrible school district with classrooms overcrowded due to a mass influx of undocumented immigrants, where every kid with any disability that needed accommodation was herded into one classroom and basically babysat. Popular wisdom in my area was that “privileged” parents like me should make do with public schools cuz like privates are bad and leaving meant I was racist. While I was trying to figure out what to do, the pandemic hit, and schools shut down, leaving me to educate a multiply disabled child basically by myself (good luck virtually educating kids like mine) and Dems kept schools closed long after the harms were documented. I got outta NY so fast to a southern state were life was still allowed to go on and where I had my pick of schools regardless of where I lived. Suddenly, school choice made sense. Educational policy and immigration became very real issues to me, and I could have slapped all my former Brooklynite friends who thought keeping schools closed indefinitely was totally fine.

Inflation hit us very hard because we needed every dollar for my son’s therapies and then later for serious health problems I developed. All the monied Democrats I knew telling me that inflation is a non-issue made me want to kill someone.

Life comes at you fast when you have children, a mortgage, and a whole life beyond pie in the sky foolishness to consider. I’m done with Democrats. Never ever thought I’d say that 10 years ago as a single woman.

Your story will to be too complex and nuanced for the Democrats on this thread who desperately believe Hilary Clinton has magical powers, but thank you for sharing.

You are both nuts. You GOP nutters are the ones obsessed with Hillary Clinton all these years later. And you think the GOP will help with schools? Are you high? Have you paid no attention to what THEY have been doing to public education in this country for the past several decades. And they TALK about immigration all the time, but they never actually do anything? Nope. Why would they? It's just a tool they use to whip you people into a froth and get you to vote GOP. Fear-mongering and empty promises.

Answer after answer from GOP women = we hate immigrants and we are still traumatized by the pandemic to the point that we can't even remember what actually happened. Do you wake in the night screaming "shutdowns!!!" It's 2024. There is no pandemic now. No one is threatening shut downs. Good Lord, you people need therapy and cult deprogramming.

Insinuating you, as supporters of the GOP, understand nuance is...hysterical.

😳😳

I don’t think you are particularly well qualified to judge who is nuts.

Touch grass, maybe? Go out in the sun?

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Anonymous wrote:In general, single women are overwhelmingly democrats and married women are 50/50ish. It's odd that none of this discussion has centered on why married women may have voting preferences that align with male voting patterns, except the bizarre and misogynistic conclusion that women are brainless and will do as their husbands instruct.

Married women tend to have more in common with men because marriage causes them to be a unit and their interests are united. A married woman has no interest in males being discriminated against, etc.

It is interesting. I think it's because many married women have children, and so they're more plugged into community issues - public safety, schools, cost of groceries etc. And Democrats tend to be on the wrong side of everyday quality of life issues - particularly schools and crime.

This is such BS.

Where’s the lie? It’s true. Democrats have abandoned every day quality of life issues for working and middle class people in particular.

Let's start with the ACA. Before that, there was no real option for health insurance outside of employment groups. Now thousands of small business owners can get insurance plans for their families. It is far from perfect but it it is a huge improvement over the time before it existed.

Small business optimism is as low as it was in 2008 during the Great Recession.

Democrats hate small business, as far as I have ever seen.

The comment is about health insurance and how to get it. Read the post.

I did. That poster asserted that the ACA was great for small business owners as an example of how Democrats haven't abandoned working and middle class people.

Small business owners are not focused on the ACA. They were decimated by Democrat-led shutdowns of industry during the pandemic, inflation resulting from both Trump and Biden's spending bills, and the subsequent high borrowing costs as the Fed fights high inflation.

The ACA is not a current focus of small business owners and their families.

What is the GOP plan for health insurance coverage? What is it called? What does it cost? What does it cover? How do you buy it?

Give us some good options GOP. The voters can evaluate the dem option and the GOP option and choose. What do you have?

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Anonymous wrote:In general, single women are overwhelmingly democrats and married women are 50/50ish. It's odd that none of this discussion has centered on why married women may have voting preferences that align with male voting patterns, except the bizarre and misogynistic conclusion that women are brainless and will do as their husbands instruct.

Married women tend to have more in common with men because marriage causes them to be a unit and their interests are united. A married woman has no interest in males being discriminated against, etc.

It is interesting. I think it's because many married women have children, and so they're more plugged into community issues - public safety, schools, cost of groceries etc. And Democrats tend to be on the wrong side of everyday quality of life issues - particularly schools and crime.

This.

When I was single, I didn’t care nearly enough about schools, inflation, cost of living, immigration, or any other political issue for them to affect my voting. I didn’t even understand what school choice was, beyond knowing it was bad primarily because that’s what everyone in my Crown Heights circle thought and I didn’t care enough to look too hard into it. Naturally, I voted D.

Then I had an autistic child in a terrible school district with classrooms overcrowded due to a mass influx of undocumented immigrants, where every kid with any disability that needed accommodation was herded into one classroom and basically babysat. Popular wisdom in my area was that “privileged” parents like me should make do with public schools cuz like privates are bad and leaving meant I was racist. While I was trying to figure out what to do, the pandemic hit, and schools shut down, leaving me to educate a multiply disabled child basically by myself (good luck virtually educating kids like mine) and Dems kept schools closed long after the harms were documented. I got outta NY so fast to a southern state were life was still allowed to go on and where I had my pick of schools regardless of where I lived. Suddenly, school choice made sense. Educational policy and immigration became very real issues to me, and I could have slapped all my former Brooklynite friends who thought keeping schools closed indefinitely was totally fine.

Inflation hit us very hard because we needed every dollar for my son’s therapies and then later for serious health problems I developed. All the monied Democrats I knew telling me that inflation is a non-issue made me want to kill someone.

Life comes at you fast when you have children, a mortgage, and a whole life beyond pie in the sky foolishness to consider. I’m done with Democrats. Never ever thought I’d say that 10 years ago as a single woman.

Oh man you are going to love what republicans have in store for educating your autistic kid.

PP here. As usual, a stupid Democrat who doesn’t have an autistic child is chiming in with fear mongering about Republicans. Newsflash: NEITHER party gives a single fig about education, much less about educating kids like mine. So, while you’re NOT caring, feel feel not to trap my kid in a disgracefully failing school district and feel free NOT to tax more of my money. Leave him to me and F off.

By the way, special ed options are infinitely better in my current red state than in CT, NY, NJ, CA, and any of the major blue states. Kick rocks with your knee-jerk “But Demz R Betta” tripe.

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Anonymous wrote:In general, single women are overwhelmingly democrats and married women are 50/50ish. It's odd that none of this discussion has centered on why married women may have voting preferences that align with male voting patterns, except the bizarre and misogynistic conclusion that women are brainless and will do as their husbands instruct.

Married women tend to have more in common with men because marriage causes them to be a unit and their interests are united. A married woman has no interest in males being discriminated against, etc.

It is interesting. I think it's because many married women have children, and so they're more plugged into community issues - public safety, schools, cost of groceries etc. And Democrats tend to be on the wrong side of everyday quality of life issues - particularly schools and crime.

This.

When I was single, I didn’t care nearly enough about schools, inflation, cost of living, immigration, or any other political issue for them to affect my voting. I didn’t even understand what school choice was, beyond knowing it was bad primarily because that’s what everyone in my Crown Heights circle thought and I didn’t care enough to look too hard into it. Naturally, I voted D.

Then I had an autistic child in a terrible school district with classrooms overcrowded due to a mass influx of undocumented immigrants, where every kid with any disability that needed accommodation was herded into one classroom and basically babysat. Popular wisdom in my area was that “privileged” parents like me should make do with public schools cuz like privates are bad and leaving meant I was racist. While I was trying to figure out what to do, the pandemic hit, and schools shut down, leaving me to educate a multiply disabled child basically by myself (good luck virtually educating kids like mine) and Dems kept schools closed long after the harms were documented. I got outta NY so fast to a southern state were life was still allowed to go on and where I had my pick of schools regardless of where I lived. Suddenly, school choice made sense. Educational policy and immigration became very real issues to me, and I could have slapped all my former Brooklynite friends who thought keeping schools closed indefinitely was totally fine.

Inflation hit us very hard because we needed every dollar for my son’s therapies and then later for serious health problems I developed. All the monied Democrats I knew telling me that inflation is a non-issue made me want to kill someone.

Life comes at you fast when you have children, a mortgage, and a whole life beyond pie in the sky foolishness to consider. I’m done with Democrats. Never ever thought I’d say that 10 years ago as a single woman.

Oh man you are going to love what republicans have in store for educating your autistic kid.

I’m not the PP but as someone with a disabled child in a blue state, it could not get much worse. I’m willing to try.

I promise you. It can and will get worse.
You don’t like IDEA and FAPE?
Well the republicans have a great plan to get rid of it and replace it with absolutely nothing.
Just hold your breath for two weeks and Trump will unveil his big beautiful special education plan.

Lmao. You think FAPE is a real thing in practice? The IDEA and IEP process are a freaking joke. Children with disabilities whose parents aren’t equipped to oversee their education get nothing, honey. Wake up.