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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]2 days to go and I STILL don't know who I'm voting for . . . at this point I may sit it out.

I'm a true moderate, so I don't like where the country and the east coast (not Va. specifically - have only lived here for 5 yrs) have gone under progressive Democrats. I know McA isn't a progressive like the folks I left behind in NYC. But my worry with Dems now is always that they run as moderate and once they're in office they turn progressive. Was only here for 1 year of McA"s earlier term and thought he was a good governor and I am wowed by Virginia's economy/economic growth and it's a big part of why I want to stay here.

Youngkin while he may have some extreme ideas probably provides the check that a state needs before it turns TOO Democratic. Even minor things - if the homeless problem grows in NoVA, I feel like a Republican will have no problem removing tent cities - and honestly it's not PC but I pay good money to live where I live, I don't want it to look like parts of DC,NYC etc. I generally think Rep. are more law and order. Yet I'm also not into MAGA - esp as a non white person. Wish there was a "guarantee" that McA doesn't take the state progressive or that Youngkin doesn't take it MAGA.[/quote]

I think you area pretty wrong on the facts:

1) Dems usually run on MORE progressive platforms than they actually enact.  Look at Bill Clinton, Obama etc.  They talked a much bigger talk than what they did. You already saw that Terry is a moderate dem - and based on his age - you can feel confident he’s not changed much.

2) Republicans are not ‘law and order’.  They are themselves quite criminal - it’s why many people in Trump’s orbit have landed themselves in prison (still or, at least until they were pardoned).  I promise you that criminality at the top is much more serious a crime and corrosive to the country than some homeless people.  If your issue is homelessness, the solution is to get those people into shelters…things that Ds support.  You can’t just ‘disappear’ them and Republicans do nothing to assist with the the actual problem.

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But look at Biden - ran as a moderate and now it's spend $1.9 trillion earlier on pandemic relief (ok maybe we needed that one to prevent recession) and oh here's another 1.9trill on unnecessary crap like preK or paid leave or whatever. I mean I know people need it but I don't think it's up to me or government to provide it - that's what employers need to be doing. I get McA is less progressive than that - his $15 min wage plan is raise it by 2024, that's hardly progressive. IDK if I worry that much about criminality at the top - IDK how much that affects me if they're moving money around/trading/tax evading to help their families. It affects us more when there are threats on retail centers all weekends or a guy gets killed at an ATM in Falls Church at 6 am - GOP is much more - throw those criminals in jail and lose the key, which I agree with because I think it deters crime. Democrats generally (IDK about McA) are more about - oh these communities have hard lives, here are all the mitigating factors why they did it, they won't do it again, let them out . . . .[/quote]

Yikes - you don’t think it matters if the leaders of your state or nation are stealing from people, grifting, violating securities laws, etc etc.   Golly, that is quite disturbing.  Why should some people be allowed to violate the law and others no?  If you really feel that way, I am not sure we’re going to see eye to eye. [/quote]

While I don't WANT any leader to be insider trading or tax evading, it doesn't threaten security. So day to day yes I'm MUCH less concerned about it than street crime. I know people love to spin it as you're picking on communities of color etc. But if communities of color were insider trading that wouldn't affect my or anyone's physical security either; when they are holding up people at ATMs, that's a potential physical harm right there.[/quote]

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