I don't know of anyone considering getting rid of guns that would be used for pest control in a rural area. Beyond slogans and bumper stickers, is anyone seriously proposing that?

I think that the people in the places where nearly all the people live (urban centers and their suburban surroundings) surely can arrive at sane guns laws, taking into account the (valid) concerns of the few remote rural people.

So that covers gun laws. Is there anything that the majority of voters cannot grasp about how to govern rural areas?

Yeah, a lot of it comes from California. And Mexico. Why do you ask?

I very much plan on voting (this being Colorado, I don't have to go anywhere, thankfully - and I can sit down and thoroughly read the ballot measures and so on and read about them, etc., and fill out at my leisure, then mail in. This is as it should be in every state.), just like most here on Lemmy (minus the bots and trolls). However, since I'm from Colorado, it turns out that voting for POTUS in Colorado is more or less a foregone conclusion.

In states like mine, that are not "battleground states", our vote counts very much less when it comes to POTUS. Same goes for things like representation in both the House and the Senate for states with larger populations. The House is EXTREMELY tilted for the reactionaries, and is way out of step with the voters, even though they did indeed vote.

So, yeah, voting is important. I plan on voting like my life depends on it, even though I'm not in a battleground state, because those other things on the ballot matter as well. You have to play to win, as the lottos are fond of saying. However, there is no good reason to pretend that the system is not seriously flawed in some very important aspects.

The DHS reported on the extreme right being the biggest domestic terrorist threat ages ago. The right freaked out, as expected, and it was quickly played down.

But the DHS was right.

I love being an American; I don't like what these so-called Americans - who seemingly have no idea what freedom truly means - are trying to do to my America. These people would be better off in some theocratic state, even if it means they stop talking about Jesus and swap to another Abrahamic religion. Their values are not American values.

Imagine being so much in a bubble of the Republican cult that you think it somehow normal to be scornful of fact-checking?

I've heard the magabrained who actually do go shopping for things like eggs claim ridiculously absurd numbers, or nod along to some other magabrain who is claiming absurdly high prices. They definitely know better, but they'll go along with it anyway.

And then there was that "JD" Vance standing right in front of a sign for egg prices, lying about the price of eggs.

They are brazen liars.

No, we are infected with lots and lots of xtian nationalist bullshit and an antiquated system that overly represents them. We need a system that allows us to ignore them since they are a minority - and let them bray as much as they like, but utterly powerless to tell anyone else how to live their lives.

Nothing weird about this bunch of so-called "Americans".

Republicans: "States rights!" States: Decriminalize cannabis, affirm women's rights, sign on with the NPVIC, etc... Republicans: "No, not like THAT!"

Also, what is wrong with only winning California, anyway? California represents the broad spectrum of a modern America and it has its rural areas as well. It is easy to argue that it is our most important state, too.

What people in California want should matter even if it overrides smaller red states - since they will likely only hold us back anyway.

Yeah, but only (rural) land here has any say, so whether most Americans want to do away with the EC is irrelevant. Only Republicans in rural areas should get to dictate the future of this country.

Turns out even that level of rigging is not enough for the traitorous Republican scum; they might be planning on having just enough states refuse to call the election and throw it to the House so their scum there can install the insane and incompetent donnie in the White House.