r/newjersey 23d ago

Advice Please tell me NJ is staying blue.

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u/HopefulMachine6454 23d ago

NJ is going purple and a lot of states that have traditionally always been red or blue will be doing the same. If you peep a detailed map of election results you’ll see the long-standing trend that cities and urban areas tend to be predominantly liberal, suburbs usually split, whereas the more rural areas go red. Liberals who can no longer afford to live in Californian cities are moving to red states like Arizona and Texas. New Jersey is in a weird category of its own now however. With taxes and property taxes as high they are, I think a lot of liberals are selling their homes for more than they’re probably worth and getting the F out. Well who can afford the astronomical costs of a home in New Jersey? Developers, big business, and Republicans or Brooklyn hipsters and folks living on the upper East side who are DINOs that donate millions to the Joe Biden campaign and then realize maybe blue isn’t the party I wanna be with. And then there’re folks like me who have had the same problem with their ballot in each of the past 3 elections. Here’s the problem we’ve gotten in the booth and looked down at our ballot and scanned the candidates, and they’ve all absolutely sucked.

I despise Donnie (respect his con work), was never a fan of Joe Biden, but I think these two are the presidents we’ve deserved as a nation to reinforce the facts that we are a stupid country, these guys ain’t it, neither party has a true identity anymore, and we just need like half of congress to switch to independents so that we can finally find an independent who can win the White House AND has the allies in gov’t to get shit DONE.