K Lynn Patterson (Revising draft 1)

Lawyer, Writer, Transplanted Texan │Parent of two adorable hellions │Excavating the past to discover truths │ 🏳️‍🌈 She/her 🌞♐️🌙♒️ │ Black Lives Matter

[Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @Kiraofthewind1]

I want to show my appreciation for this fox. Fantasy authors are often told "don't do head hopping or get silly with PoV changes" but damn it, if Tolkien can get a bit silly with it, so can you

[K Lynn Patterson (Revising draft 1) @KLPatAuthor]

@lyndonbajohnson a respected fighter doesn't have to posture all the time.

[K Lynn Patterson (Revising draft 1) @KLPatAuthor]

@sapphicspielbrg god this would be absolute perfection.

[Classical Studies Memes @CSMFHT]

Achilles and Patroclus I see you

[K Lynn Patterson (Revising draft 1) @KLPatAuthor]

@lyndonbajohnson It’s hard because I always want to tell people to read “the history of white people,” but it’s a really dense read to just pick up.

[K Lynn Patterson (Revising draft 1) @KLPatAuthor]

@AdriTGomes happy birthday!

[K Lynn Patterson (Revising draft 1) @KLPatAuthor]

@admcrlsn To even have a chance at winning this election, Biden and dems would have had to understand that the ability to run someone who would be oppositional to biden was essential and have an open primary

They would have had to realize this by - mid-2023 at the latest? hard to imagine

[K Lynn Patterson (Revising draft 1) @KLPatAuthor]

@AdriTGomes Wow. That's bananas. that also tracks with the data, that shows the biggest factor in determining a voter's behavior was how tuned in they were to the news.

[K Lynn Patterson (Revising draft 1) @KLPatAuthor]

can't help myself. I'd argue to the extent this is a pattern, it demonstrates generalized populist anger at government as a whole. After decades of increased income inequality, and then the Great Recession, that anger coalesced into a general disillusionment with government

[G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris]

Could be an age thing by most of the Obama-Trump and Biden-Trump voters I know say they would have voted for Sanders

[K Lynn Patterson (Revising draft 1) @KLPatAuthor]

@castlehillmom @raylehmann @MattZeitlin @62884391A point remains. high property taxes are a tradeoff for low income taxes.

I barely have any property taxes in California - I pay like $3,000 a year; income taxes are higher.

[K Lynn Patterson (Revising draft 1) @KLPatAuthor]

@Robotbeat @raylehmann @MattZeitlin @62884391A what's funny about this statement, is that property taxes *in Texas* are "very high." It's a policy choice. Texas has relatively low income taxes, and the trade off is higher property taxes.

Tho google tells me that the rate is only 1.6%, so this person's house is worth ~$1mil

[K Lynn Patterson (Revising draft 1) @KLPatAuthor]

@Blake_Allen13 Thank you!

[K Lynn Patterson (Revising draft 1) @KLPatAuthor]

@Charlotte_Stein Can’t quite put my finger on it.

[K Lynn Patterson (Revising draft 1) @KLPatAuthor]

@Taniel @CalebBedillion Any idea if absentee ballots may lean one way or another?

[K Lynn Patterson (Revising draft 1) @KLPatAuthor]

the only party that embodies the institution of government. That institutionalism is making it hard for them to succeed electorally now, when we're in an era of populism that is pissed at the government for what it perceives are a series of failures.

[K Lynn Patterson (Revising draft 1) @KLPatAuthor]

how these voting patterns are emerging. Trump-Biden-Trump, with each candidate barely winning, is just an expression of general antipathy towards government.

Because MAGA has consolidated anti-government sentiment, and very few traditional republicans remain, Dems are really

[K Lynn Patterson (Revising draft 1) @KLPatAuthor]

@lyndonbajohnson Fuck man, that’s salt in the wound right there.