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Personally I've always been an advocate for cross party control of the three branches. Party members themselves are too cucked to oppose their leader at all (Biden's age and Trump's tariffs, or whatever else) even on topics where people in the coalition differ. It forces less radical and more widely supported behavior if you actually have something of an opposition to get past. Leaders are far more cautious at spending political capital on things the populace doesn't like when there's more pressure coming down.
95% of party members are too sycophantic to go against the party line, but do be careful to research a bit before casting protest votes, in case your state has one of the other 5%.
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I agree. Since I dislike both of the major power groups, I desire to balance them against each other. If I do vote for a Democrat in the midterms, it's very unlikely that this will be the start of some kind of long commitment to the Democrats on my part. And it's possible that I will vote for some Republicans in some local elections. But I do want to give the right a slap that tells them to stop the overreach and the deranged rhetoric, similar as how Trump getting elected in 2024 gave a slap to the woke telling them to cut out their overreach and deranged rhetoric.
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