Some reasons I love America!

[WinterBorn]

I wouldn't be comfortable living in a baby blue or even royal blue state.
It has to be navy blue at the least,
and preferably midnight blue.

In other word, even my Massachusetts isn't as blue as I'd like.

I have lived in Red State and Blue States. I could be happy in either.

It is the federal level of Red/Blue that makes things difficult.

 

[ThatOwlWoman]

I have lived in Red State and Blue States. I could be happy in either.

It is the federal level of Red/Blue that makes things difficult.

Depends on the state. I lived in Missouri for 55 years and watched it change from a moderate, sometimes-red/sometimes-blue state to about as maroon as you can get. This did affect the daily lives of citizens. They now have one of the most draconian anti-abortion laws in the nation, and have threatened to prosecute women who travel to another state for the procedure. When citizens voted on ballot initiations (an anti-puppy mill measure, raising minimum wage over time to $15/hr in STL and KC), the (R) legislature promptly overturned them by passing law that says the opposite. They have made photographing or videotaping farms and slaughter houses a felony. For years they refused the Medicaid expansion. They've passed laws making it nearly impossible to sue a physician or hospital for malpractice. They changed the age at which child support ends to 18 from 22 (if the kid was still in school/college FT.) It now ends at age 18, period. I was a widow with two daughters in college when they did that. You can imagine the struggle to get them through those years.

So yes, depending on the state, its redness or blueness can definitely affect citizens' lives.

 

[Hawkeye10]

Build Back Better/Big Beautiful Bill

 

[NiftyNiblick]

Depends on the state. I lived in Missouri for 55 years and watched it change from a moderate, sometimes-red/sometimes-blue state to about as maroon as you can get. This did affect the daily lives of citizens. They now have one of the most draconian anti-abortion laws in the nation, and have threatened to prosecute women who travel to another state for the procedure. When citizens voted on ballot initiations (an anti-puppy mill measure, raising minimum wage over time to $15/hr in STL and KC), the (R) legislature promptly overturned them by passing law that says the opposite. They have made photographing or videotaping farms and slaughter houses a felony. For years they refused the Medicaid expansion. They've passed laws making it nearly impossible to sue a physician or hospital for malpractice. They changed the age at which child support ends to 18 from 22 (if the kid was still in school/college FT.) It now ends at age 18, period. I was a widow with two daughters in college when they did that. You can imagine the struggle to get them through those years.

So yes, depending on the state, its redness or blueness can definitely affect citizens' lives.

I don't need a shithole state like that existing in my nation.
The midlands real estate isn't at fault, obviously.
We're looking at seriously malignant people.

I'm not like Owl, one would notice.

The Gestapo and I both having been only children,
I've never had a brother-in-law.

If I did have a trumpanzee brother-in-law, however,
I would NEVER refer to him as a "good guy."
I'd refer to him as a devolved mutant who'd best have dental insurance if he showed his face at my door.
And we'd certainly never accept invitations to the same dinner table.

The Gestapo and I would never have approached 53 years of marriage if she objected to that attitude.
Thank the fates that neither of us ever had siblings or things may have gotten tricky.
And thank the fates that she feels as I feel about fuckwit "conservatives."

People may differ at what they consider important,
but if you know me, little in life is easier
than ascertaining what I consider important.

I consider banishing trumpanzees from my life beyond important and absolutely essential.

America really disappointed me in not evolving as I so strongly wished that it would.
I consider that important too, and I've been a very good American by every reasonable standard.
That's why there are more than just trumpanzees on JPP with whom I don't get along.

Anybody who's too much of a "true believer' to acknowledge
just how fucked we presently are
is not likely to view any aspect of life similarly to how I do.