Vote republican to show how much you don't care about America because (insert cause here: guns, abortion, whatever)

Congress often moved pretty slowly when Trump was in charge.

The idiocy goes both ways.

Republicans have blocked and continue to block programs that would help the country at large and republican led states in particular (due to their lack of spending on their citizens) purely for partisan reasons.

They did the same to Obama when the country was trying to climb out of the Great Recession. And you still voted Republican despite it.

So what did Congress do when Republicans were in control? More tax cuts for the rich (unpaid for as they demanded for any program helping the poor) and elected conservative judges. Now you being a mostly one issue voter (abortion) cheered that on. But just wait until some company wants your land. Conservative judges are fine with that too. Workers rights? Nope, pro business again. Clean air and water? Guess which side they will come down on.

But keep voting Republican like a good Pavlov’s voter

Huh.

Here in MT, a proudly conservative state, we legalized marijuana and are shunting the revenue into education spending. The legislature passed initiatives this summer to fast-track green/blue hydrogen power investment by Mitsubishi Power and are exploring options to switch over to modern modular nuclear generators as well. Both methods will inevitably drive our coal plants under sooner or later. We overwhelmingly rejected so-called "right to work" in favor of protecting worker's unions, and it's a common quip that the most powerful Democrats in the state are our judges. Everyone here believes in public lands and minimal development because we all love the Big Sky and the wilderness under it.

So I find your silly projections as entertaining as they are false, inasmuch as it pertains to my state.

Now, nationally? That's a different game and you're not entirely wrong; Republicans there aren't nearly as dedicated to results as their local counterparts. That said, you failed to address my point at all; the Democrats consistently voted down a COVID relief bill that had full Republican support. If they really cared only about the average American, they'd have passed that bill to get immediate aid to them and then fought with Republicans over the expanded, and often entirely unrelated to COVID, spending they wanted. Again, the idiocy can and does go both ways.

Republicans have a nasty habit of adding poison pills they know no Democrat would vote for in their bills. Hence the lack of support.

I’m glad MT is looking at the future because far too many republican led states are not. And while I live in liberal Massachusetts, we mostly elect Republican governors. I really liked Weld and despite some strong policy disagreements, I like what Baker is doing. I can’t say I like the republican governors between those two, especially Romney (carpetbagger!). We had to enact a whole new set of ethic laws because of him.

But as I have said in the past, liberals and conservatives mostly agree on stuff. But there is an entire industry out there making tons of money to keep us at each other’s throats over the policies we disagree about.

Same can be said for Democrat bills. I seem to recall there were stipulations in an otherwise-agreed upon Democrat-fronted COVID bill last year that both had little/nothing to do with COVID and clearly was something Republicans wouldn't support.

Can't say I know much about Massachusetts (had a coop history teacher from there) or Romney in particular, but I always imagined it as a relatively moderate state.

Now that's the truth. People are too readily judge, jury, and political executioner. It's always been that way, sure, but in this digital age it's worse than ever.