Talking about choice, in Okiehomie voters can still check a box to vote straight party ballot. A few years ago that's how they elected Ryan Walter's as superintendent of education, knowing little about him. Once elected Walters ran roughshod over education in the Sooner or Later State, sending educational achievement from #48 to #50 in three years. A few months ago he was finally forced from office, leaving public education in the state a generation behind the rest of the nation.
Voters in Oklahoma wonder why their state is such a backward place, yet they keep voting for leaders who keep the transmission of the state in neutral, when they cannot force it into reverse ...
Remember those masks we all wore in 2020-22? They're back. Remember hospitals being overwhelmed during Covid? Tune in a few weeks from now for a repeat. You may not remember Heroin Bob disappearing and nodding off, but you will see that soon. And Trump the germaphobe will soon have much more to worry about than his damaged hands ...