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Alpeduez21

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12. No they would not

Reply to flashman13 (Reply #9)

Sat Apr 11, 2026, 07:22 PM

Yesterday

People are demanding and demanding and demanding. Neither side has to listen. Gerrymandering has become so perfected that elections for the party candidate are locked in. Primaries can feel like they upset the Applecart but the status quo remains. Voters don’t need to be given attention and the rich buy it. Out of 435 seats in the House maybe 45 seats are actually competitive. They are all rich. They are not going to change the system that got them that way. Inflation is thru the roof. People go bankrupt because their child got sick. We sit around wondering when the game is on or what the ‘real housewives’ are up to. People used to get their heads chopped off for this shit.

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