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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Great post, OP, and I hope for a respectful, robust discussion here. There is a lot to talk about.

IMO, one of the main problems with the mindset of too many voters in MoCo is that too many of them work for, and benefit from, the entities you describe. I read somewhere that something like 25% (or close to it) of MoCo residents work for the government in some capacity - local/ state/ federal. This is a really high percentage compared to bedroom suburban communities of other major cities around the country, and it breeds, of course, a population that reveres government processes and services. It also explains the "Beltway Bubble" that many MoCo residents are submerged in, because it is a mindset that is not consistent with people in other areas of the state and country. These [b]people are born followers who love rules - making them and enforcing them on other people[/b]. As a simple example, look at the clinging to masks in MoCo and how people still wear them as a badge of honor. It's a uniform there that says "I'm part of the system, and I buy into it."

Unfortunately, I don't know how you change that. Proximity to Washington is the negative here and that's not going to change. The same is true in suburban areas of VA, but not nearly on the scale that it is in MD, and VA has a more conservative/ Republican history to balance it out.[/quote]

OMG. I have never read anything that more accurately describes the vast majority of people that live here. See the “you’ll take my mask from my cold dead hands you MAGA trash” and “look how I am protecting YOU!” sheeple. [/quote]

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