My old friend who lived in San Francisco for many years has been telling me about the local politics where she lives now.
What she said: Voting time is about the only time I really miss living in CA. Before every election we got pamphlets that had exactly whom we would be voting for, their bios, their statements, their rebuttals, their counter-rebuttals, along with every proposition, and pro and con statements for them. Here, you cannot even find your own polling place online! The area here makes it VERY hard to vote because we are gerrymandered regularly without any notice. *sigh*
My reply: Thanks to the pandemic, the SF Bay area’s commercial real estate market, and perhaps the city itself, could be in a so-called “doom loop.” So it’s good you left, but the manipulation of the voting process you’re seeing sure does seem like typical Republican dirty tricks.
I have to laugh when pundits say GOP traditionalists, like Romney, don’t recognize their party under Trump. They had blinders on, not wanting to see their party for what it’s really about, once you look below the rich investor class. It’s exactly the same as what it was, except now it’s pumped up on steroids and been given full expression by Trump.
Mitt is one leading “traditional” Republican who was naive about Trump and the truth he revealed about the Grand Old Party. Mitch is another.