Every poll I have seen recently shows Boomers being more progressive than the next younger groups.

If I lived in one of those states, is there anything to keep me from signing in, collecting the money, and vote Dems anyway?

Yes, I do. And yes, it is evil. It has already started in red states. That’s why we are against it.

I’ll clap for that!

Yep. https://maddogpac.com/

Here’s another: https://votevets.org/

When I was a high school junior I wasn’t old enough to go to one.

From reading the text, I speculate that Franklin was alluding to the preexisting saying as well – alluding to the cat in the dark as an accepted axiom.

I had left the thread before this sank in, and had to come back in to upvote. I agree, he is off limits again.

That’s an analogy that might appeal to the LE types.

That seems to illustrate the point that LadyLikesSpiders was making – quite nicely.

I, for one, had not known that (tho’ I am not Jewish). Thx.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_German_National_Jews

If your employer is a great corporation then they will not mind paying a fair portion of their profits toward taxes.

So … we were supposed to skim instead of read. Mea culpa – I was reading instead, trying to understand the arguments and get the points. I was weary by the time I got there.

Google for “Intuit lobbying.”

It’s not literally bribery; it’s corporate America at work. Effectively bribery, IMHO.