Look at a sat view of the State. All that mountainous forest land. Wide variety of prey animals and forage crops. Prime habitat.

"Highest stakes"... two parties with a death grip on power continuing to have a death grip on power no matter who wins.

As junior Senators, both would be immediately ushered into the presence of the Party leadership and told that they will vote the way they are told or else. I'm sure they've already be briefed on that discussion and have had to kiss the feet of the real masters of this country several times just to fund their campaigns.

"Waaah, teacher didn't use my pronouns! He didn't validate my ego! Crucify him! Destroy his career! Ruin him financially! I deserve to be OBEYED!"

That's what you defend. You think you're being so moral but you have no problem destroying a person's life just to stroke your own ego. Who's the dick?

Unless they refuse to speak the way you want them to, then destroy their careers. Right?

And when you refuse they throw tantrums and try to ruin your life. That's thuggery.

If I do not consent to call an apple an orange, but you try to impose financial hardship on me for not doing so, that's extortion.

Congratulations. You're a tyrant.

Language is by consent... not diktat.

Ever see that episode of the Twilight Zone where the traveler comes across a house held hostage by a six year old boy with god-like powers, who simply erases anyone from existence if they don't give him what he wants?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_a_Good_Life_(The_Twilight_Zone)

That's the kind of tyranny these fools are advocating. Because they want to be the tyrants.

If someone comes up and tells you to call them God and throws a temper tantrum and tries to get you fired from your job if you don't....

You're backing bullies.

If someone comes up and says "Call me Rob or else"... that's a threat and that's the game these people play.

Ever consider the blatant narcissism involved in demanding that people stop using the English language as based on millenia of common consentual usage and change that usage overnight arbitrarily simply to satisfy their own personal whims, and any who do not go along with those whims must be punished as an example to terrorize others into compliance?

The word "tyrant" comes to mind. So does "brat".