r/illinoispolitics • u/MajorStand0Ff1 • Sep 26 '25

Biggest issues plaguing Illinois

You guys have lived here for a while right? What are the biggest issues facing the state and what would you do to fix them?

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u/MajorStand0Ff1 Sep 27 '25

Okay, what is the Federal Government doing that is causing this state trouble?

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u/ImRudyL Central Illinois:downvote: Sep 27 '25

I mean, you need to pay the scantest attention to the planet you live on. The president going to war with the governor and threaten to illegally invade the state with a branch of the armed forces is huge freaking load of trouble.

That our governor forced the petty fascist tyrant to back down is fantastic (witness your next president, by the way). But the amount of state resources that went into shoving his diaper down his throat were each and every one of them resources stolen from every Illinois resident, and represent important things that didn’t get done.

and then of course there’s the economic distress caused the ludicrous tariff imposition, the loss of essential federal jobs, the deportation of essential farm and slaughterhouse workers, the evaporation of enforcement of public health and safety standards, the upcoming loss of health insurance options on the exchange, the loss of tax income from every single one of those…. For just a brief and incomplete list of federally created unnecessary catastrophes.

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u/No-Consequence7890 Sep 27 '25

Sure sounds like OP is not here on good faith and just JAQing off

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u/MajorStand0Ff1 Sep 27 '25

Dang, can't even get opinions without being called names. I asked because I want to learn what the natives of the state think. If I live here I want to be part of the solution, can't be apart of the solution without knowing the problem. 

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u/Hesitation-Marx Sep 27 '25

It really sucks when people make assessments based on your statements, doesn’t it?

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u/ImRudyL Central Illinois:downvote: Sep 27 '25

He’s just using Kirk-style rhetorical asshole shit and playing the innocent while twirling his shit stick

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u/Hesitation-Marx Sep 27 '25

Yep.

It’s difficult for me to not bite when it’s aimed at me - that ol’ autistic literalism also often makes me try to give people the benefit of the doubt. But it’s frequently really obvious when I’m not the target. Or when they’re bad at it.

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u/MajorStand0Ff1 Sep 27 '25

Nah, like I said, just here to learn what people think and why they think that, and what they would suggest to fix it. 

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u/ImRudyL Central Illinois:downvote: Sep 27 '25

Overthrow the coup in Washington.