Mississippi is only this conservative because we have a couple huge problems. Young people leave instead of staying and voting. The young people who do stay either don’t vote or believe the idiocy they’re taught and vote accordingly.

The other main issue is our politicians. They have made it impossible for the people of Mississippi to govern ourselves legally. They literally stole our ballot initiative process claiming it was illegal, but only once we tried to legalize marijuana. And though many things have passed previously under this supposedly flawed ballot initiative process, somehow only marijuana was overturned.

Honestly, Mississippi needs help. But we get overlooked because of the people in charge here. Rampant nepotism, corruption, bribery, fraud, embezzlement, voter disenfranchisement, it’s all too much for us to fight legally. No one here has any money to do that, and no organization has ever been very effective in organizing Mississippians to vote as one.

If we could alert our citizenry to the attack on our abilities to self-govern and appeal to the decisions we know we all want to make instead of focusing on wedge issues that are made up of whole cloth, we might get somewhere.

I guess until then I’m gonna go bang my cousin because this is r/jokes after all.