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"Blue states subsidize" should be excised from our rhetoric. We are all part of the same country, and all pay into the same pot for our taxes. We, as both contributors and benefactors of our federal government need to remember that if we start thinking in terms of "us vs them" that it's back to my OP point of "divide and conquer". That is never a good thing, no matter how you phrase it.
As a self-described Liberal, I am happy to both pay my taxes and see them go to all citizens of this country, whether they appreciate it or not. I do not have "conditional compassion" for my fellow man and woman.
Now where in anything I've said have I even hinted that "they're all fine" with regards to the republicans? (with the exception of my father, seeing as how he will vote for Democratic candidates if the thinks they'd do a better job than the opposition.) You appear to be either misreading my posts, or think that it's really A-Ok to punish a whole state just to get at a few bad ones. Yes, the politicians are the ones in power and supposedly at the brunt of the punishment, but you have to know that it's really the people that suffer, right? Are you really saying that you're all for throwing out any chance of us liberals taking back our state just to get back at the republicans here?
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