Had the 9th version of that conversation with my family tonight where they explained to me that doing anything besides voting for Biden is voting for Trump. I tried to explain that I think the Dems catering more to the center-right than the left means they’ve decided they don’t need my vote, and that if they wanted my vote they’d do something, fucking anything at all, to try and get it. They just weren’t having it. These democrats don’t actually believe in democracy. It would be funny as hell if it weren’t so frustrating. Really makes me wanna get grill pilled y’all.
I would kill for a family that tries to pressure me to vote for Biden. Nobody related to me is even close to being left of Reagan.
I can’t even talk about politics. One only responds with true faith in Trump and victim complexes anything else, another doesn’t vote and is kinda anarchist except only for white cishet, also they like Trump. Another is a true maoist and knows that there is not point to elections (not actually a maoist). The other is a succdem with potential for radicalization and we do sometimes talk politics.
The fruits of treating politics like a sport or a reality tv show. The idea of choosing who you’re going to vote for based on what they actually believe and are likely to do is so foreign to liberal voters that when you say “they’re not doing anything to earn my vote”, the windows XP error message plays in their head.
Instead, they vote for whichever party blindly every time because it’s their team! Because Obama presents himself so nicely and is so eloquent, or because Trump is such a strong man getting things done because he says things so assertively! If there’s any examination of the candidate’s voting history or political beliefs, it’s only the other candidate, and if my team’s candidate does it? oh well that’s different.
