Alabama is not a serious state.

We prove this over and over with each election that comes and goes. We care little for competency. We care even less about decency. Many of our voters care nothing at all about their own interests.

Instead, our voters are enamored by the dumbest of things. By party affiliation. By hateful, offensive attacks on those who are different. And, God help us, by sports affiliations.

That latter one is becoming absurd.

We are currently on the verge of electing for governor of this state a man who we elected U.S. senator despite the fact his only qualification was that everyone knew his name from when he was a football coach in this state. And six years later, despite not living in this state and failing to sponsor a single bill that ever passed, we’re on the ver

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