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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a democrat and while I don’t want a ‘red wave’ (I’m voting for Harris & Alsobrooks, since I don’t want the Senate to flip), I don’t know what other options I have anymore for local politics.

Schools overcrowded and standards rapidly declining, taxes continuing to rise with no real accountability (I haven’t forgotten the $14m electric buses debacle in MoCo), cramming through zoning changes by handwaving away real concerns …  in pursuit of equity and inclusivity, we have lost the plot.

I’m anti-racism, anti-sexism, anti-homophobia with the best of MoCo citizens. I want people to be safe and welcome in our community. I’m also tired of elected officials telling me I’m “-ist” for asking why kids aren’t learning to read, pointing out no research has been done by the MoCo Planning Committee on infrastructure effects of upzoning, and being tired of being told that the uptick in crime isn’t real, since it ‘was worse in the 90s.’

I feel like I'm in upside down land. I’m at the point where, if I could find a legitimate moderate republican candidate who is pro-choice, I’d be voting for him/her. I can’t be the only democrat feeling this way? If it weren’t for the GOP’s backwards views on abortion and gun control, I’d be voting Harris/Hogan, frankly.[/quote]

You are in the same position that many of us are at this point.  We are left leaning [b]d[/b]emocrats, even liberals, trying to navigate local politics run by progressives.  Who we voted for locally (the MOCO council, for example) turned out to be beholden to progressives, and they are quite happy to sell us out for the progressive cred that they hope will move them up.  In the meantime, we are stuck hoping that their success fails them up and away.

As a country we want to drag the Overton window to the left, but it’s quite far enough left already in Montgomery County.  So, of course, the progressives screech that we are pro Republican or something just as silly.[/quote]

There it is again. Now you're sock-puppeting. I'm reporting this one.[/quote]

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