For a party that SAYS its obsessed with choice, Democrats sure are happy to restrict you right to choose...

Closed minded indeed. I am immune to the hype-train is all. Plus I have decades of irrefutable observations to draw upon. Democrats restrict choices in salami slices until they get what they want. Then they proclaim the country has spoken in their favor. Sorry, six of one or half a dozen of the other is not choice.

You can only buy ICE cars until 2035. California will not allow certain age big rigs to even cross state lines. Tough to get all those Chinese trinkets from Amazon when literally thousands of fully functional trucks are forbidden from the state with the largest port. That's choice?

Nurses were told to vax. Including nurses with real allergic reactions to common drugs who logically only wanted to know what was in this new, rushed, over-hyped drug to avoid anaphylaxis. Something they do with ALL drugs they take. They were told to hit the road or vax. That's choice?

And the funny thing about smoking is, you have to pay more for insurance if you smoke tobacco. Whereas there is no same requirement in place for marijuana at my company because.... reasons? Certainly inhaling burned plant matter and carbon seems to be unhealthy for human lungs, but one is ok and celebrated as fun and harmless. Just like those 1950s pro-smoking ads. Choices I guess?

And yes, you can pay to place your kids into a private school, but you do not get to abstain from paying for the public schools that you are deliberatly avoiding. It's rather like going to Walmart to buy Pepsi, yet being forced to buy a Sam's Cola that you also have to give away. Choices!

And no we don't have choices for candidates. Trump is a drama queen, Biden is a failing fossil. But two, and only two parties have a monopoly on all views, alternatives, information and directions the country can follow? You have more choices for breakfast at a corner gas station than candidates for president. Democrat darling JFK couldn't make it on the modern Dem ticket. Choices though?

And yes, movies and commercials are simply awash in identity politics over entertainment. 3 years ago, Disney stock traded for nearly $200 a share, now its half that. Maybe its just the economy right? Yet Gen Zs are not a big motorcycling demographic and even Harley stock has not dropped as much of a percentage. But Netflix is soaring. We do not need left or right versions of entertainment, just entertainment will suffice. And "the message" is fear mongering to elicit only 1 option, not multiples.

Again, in each of these you still have a choice.

Don't like environmental regulations in California? Move to Texas - I guarantee they'll be selling ICE cars there until the Earth plummets into the sun.

Yes, a nurse has two choices in that scenario - first whether to work in healthcare where population health is taken seriously, and second between taking reasonable precautions or being out of work.

Your insurance payments are set by the market based on the costs associated with treating conditions caused by long-term use. You're right that smoking burning plant matter isn't particularly healthy, but the risk profiles are extremely different because of the ways people consume marijuana compared to cigarette smokers. You're free to choose, just not to be free of the consequences of your choices.

Of course you don't get to abstain from paying for public schools because the service isn't educating our kids, but rather meeting society's constant demand for educated workers, hence why we pay the same rate for schools whether we personally have dozens of kids or none at all.

Our choices for candidates and parties are effectively baked into our Constitution, and that is extremely limiting, but a choice we make whether to be lazy, gullible, and voluntarily misinformed or not - and as a people we've solidly gone with the former.

Three years ago Disney was riding high on the fact that they were prepared at the onset of the pandemic to release an early second-generation streaming platform with a nearly century-long vault of content. In the time since, the market was saturated and they've turned back to traditional theater releases and platform consolidation, which is why they settled back into the $100 range where they'd otherwise been since 2014.

Netflix is a bit of an odd one for you to mention though because their investment into content production and inking of deals with politically-charged personalities is the source of much hand-wringing in right-wing spaces. The Obamas have produced some 18 different movies and TV shows for them since their stock bottomed out after Russia blocked it.