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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]

This is a very peculiar way to think. It's like you're either a troll or dealing with a great deal of cognitive dissonance, or you're so gullible as to have bought into right-wing propaganda about DEI, CRT and other phantom menaces. No elected officials are calling you "ist" for the things you say you ask.

So, yeah, you're kind of the only Democrat "feeling this way." Actually, the fact that you didn't capitalize "Democrat" in a post where you purportedly express concern about kids allegedly not being able to read (which isn't even a factual thing), it points more to "troll."

No one is buying it.[/quote]

The fact you think I’m a troll because I don’t agree with your version of what a democrat “should be” is what I’m talking about. Btw I’m on mobile and that’s why democrat doesn’t automatically capitalize. Literally get over yourself. If you read 5 paragraphs and take something as simple as a single letter to disregard the entire point… if Hogan wins, it will be because of dems like you who ignore and called people like me trolls, instead of actually seeing a contingent of dems who are trying to bring up real, valid concerns, and being told they’re lying.

Re: the “isms” - my children speak Spanish at home, and yet I have literally been told I’m showing “white supremacy culture” for asking why phonics isn’t being taught anymore (after the Sold a Story podcast went viral). I was told I’m prejudiced against ESL students. ¿¿Si yo digo que y viene una gringa a decirme que soy una "supremacista blanca” ?? Primero que todo le escupo un ojo. Al final, es una ideologías gringa que refleja valores gringos, no de los latino. Está bien con moderación, pero obvio los van a meter todas sus ideologías políticas de zopeto.[/quote]

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