I know a lot of people who are having trouble handling the way things are going. The left has engaged in sustained, random, low-intensity violence on a national level. People feel they need to prepare, but they can't retaliate, and that constant edgy readiness is already wearing people down while the left continues to randomly burn and loot with impunity.
Do people have some ideas on how to handle that constant background noise without getting worn down and losing before the fight even begins? I've been able to compartmentalize and just wait to do the job that's in front of me, but not everyone can do that.
Best of luck. Montana just legalized pot, so I worry about their long-term future with regard to inter-state immigration trends. Hopefully you can stem the tide of Californians now considering the state "in play".
I can tell you that housing is tight, and not cheap.
But my god I'm so tired of looking at people in masks and I can't tell who they are and I can't understand what they're saying; and the plight of the children just makes me cry. It's fucking terrible. I have to get out.
I sympathize. I have local places I go to where people don't care about masks, but they're few and far between. And I make sure they're rewarded. The place I go to when I truly want to feel normal is a brewery in Coeur d'Alene. No one -- not even the staff -- wears masks there. Went there once in July and again in October, and both times it was the most normal I've felt since the Before Time.
Rock on, the local speakeasy. Noice
But here the comrades love the rules and obey the great poohbahs of truth leadership. My son thinks it's like a cult.
Well the places I go know me well enough to know I don't glow in the dark. Apparently that's an issue nowadays. They aren't so accommodating to people they don't know. Mask compliance is still extremely high, and usually I'm the only person at any given time anywhere I go that isn't wearing one.
The only place where I was flat-out denied service for not wearing one was a gas station in eastern Montana.
Build the wall in your neighbourhood.
Expel violent, unreasonable leftists from society.
I was a libertarian for a long time until I realized that laws can serve a secondary purpose of gatekeeping. I don't care if someone smokes pot, but states where it isn't legal should make it a capital offense if it can keep their state from turning Blue.
This is the flawed thinking that produced the problem in the first place. It was the criminalization that fueled the incarcerations that lead to a poor, fatherless underclass that votes blue blindly enough to keep the dems competitive.
It should have never been criminalized, I agree with you there. But now that it has, decriminalization comes with its own problems: namely, certain negative demographics (Californians and leftists in general) tend to move where it's legal.
Where would you rather live: someplace where it's illegal on paper but you can grow and use it at home provided you aren't causing trouble and aren't smoking it in town, or where it's completely legal and now you have a bunch of Californians moving into town? I assure you the latter is more damaging to your state long-term than the former.
Criminals vote blue because Dems lock up criminals to release them, not because they're poor or fatherless or an underclass.