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[quote=Anonymous]Montgomery County does not need a Republican. What Montgomery County needs is an injection of Independents.

The days of Connie Morella are long gone and won't be coming back in any foreseeable future. If you are hoping for some Hogan type figure emerging in MoCo, you are sadly delusional. What is desperately needed is some Biden-like candidates who are moderately left and are more concerned about making sensible policy decisions regarding growth and taxation, and less about trying to out banner the AOC imitators. It is doubtful that these moderate candidates would ever win a Democratic primary since the woke wing of the MoCo Democratic Party has completely outflanked the opposition better and tighter than a gerrymandered North Carolina Congressional District. So, the only way to circumvent team Che is compete against them in the general election.

Montgomery County is a far cry from the conservatively liberal county that I grew up in the 70's and 80's. Most of that is self inflicted. The 90's & 00's opened up the floodgates to overdevelopment. The population boomed. The I-270 monster was created, then the ICC slush fund. The doors were left wide open for everyone to come, be it through legal channels or not, and without concern whether there was actually enough housing for everyone or not.

Now everyone is bemoaning about the housing crisis and the only answer the GGW propped up councilmembers can come up with is destroy single family zoning in order to raze homes in Chevy Chase, Bethesda and Takoma Park and create mini apartment dwellings in their place or plop tiny homes (aka shacks) all over existing properties across the county. Let's ignore all the neglected, slumlord apartment units all over the county that desperately need to be updated and repurposed. Let's ignore the east and middle sections of the county that could certainly use some modernization and revitalization. Nope, let's concentrate on owning the bloodsucking bluehaired boomers. We live to watch old people cry! Let's list the Elks Lodge as a terrorist organization while we're at it.

The demographics of Montgomery County have changed dramatically and identity politics is king. Team AOC has cultivated their base to perfection. You have to applaud how well they managed to accomplish their grip over local politics. I fear that such an unchecked political machine will eventually corrode everything that Montgomery County has done exceptionally well over the past 50 years. The school system, being the penultimate example. If the schools start to crater, then everything else will follow along. All the federal workers living in the county can only prop it up so much. Not to mention that with distant working, there is ample motivation to live elsewhere. The all out assault on Bethesda and the western slice of the county won't help matters either. I say this as person who lives in the Silver Spring side of the county. Who knows, maybe in a few years, the entire county will be declared an autonomous zone?[/quote]

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