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Sen. Lisa Murkowski, aghast at Donald Trump’s candidacy and the direction of her party, won’t rule out bolting from the GOP. The veteran Alaska Republican, one of seven Republicans who voted to convict Trump [https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/13/politics/republican-votes-trump-guilty-convict-impeachment/index.html] in his second impeachment trial amid the aftermath of January 6, 2021, is done with the former president and said she “absolutely” would not vote for him. “I wish that as Republicans, we had … a nominee that I could get behind,” Murkowski told CNN. “I certainly can’t get behind Donald Trump.” The party’s shift toward Trump has caused Murkowski to consider her future within the GOP. In the interview, she would not say if she would remain a Republican. Asked if she would become an independent, Murkowski said: “Oh, I think I’m very independent minded.” And she added: “I just regret that our party is seemingly becoming a party of Donald Trump.”

My reason for posting this question is to get some perspective, since I don’t live further west than Indiana.

Indiana has a lot of conservative tendencies, usually opposes progressive policies, and a little old school bigotry in the form of religion based disagreement with people’s life styles, like letter community.

From an outsiders perspective, TX, OK, MO etc are even more extreme.

This permalink above from a comment from a person referencing recently proposed legislation against letter community people specifically, though there’s tons of examples of bigotry like the school principal getting sued for discrimination due to a kid’s hair (black hair).

We know Lemmy is a bit more populated with left than right thinkers, but regardless, what’s going on in these western plains states? Is it as bad as it looks?

Do you personally know some sweet old church ladies who ‘hate the gays because they’ll going to hell’ or are there just more extreme law makers being elected that don’t represent the majority?

EDIT: tried to fix link to a conversation instead of a login page.

  • balderdash@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    4 months ago

    She’s repeatedly refused federal aid for school food programs and social services.

    I’m pretty open minded, but what could possibly be the rational behind this shit? I guess the money comes with strings attached?

    • Pandantic [they/them]@midwest.socialEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I don’t know, but I think it has something to do with “if you take federal money, the state has to match it” maybe. She always brags we have a budget surplus, so I don’t think money is a problem.