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Iowa

Bettie

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5. I'm still trying to figure out what has happened to this state

Reply to progressoid (Reply #4)

Tue Aug 3, 2021, 05:03 PM

Aug 2021

we moved here 19 years ago and it wasn't the Republican hellscape it is right now (at least in my county). It was pretty even between Dems and those other guys. Now, I'm surrounded by MAGAts who are no longer even pretending to be decent people.

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