A neighbor’s kid just came back from college and said he wasn’t going to vote for Biden because he’s just as bad as Trump.
his dad is sort of conservative - kind of a hangover version of it from childhood- but a realist who is voting for Biden, thinks Bush was an idiot etc. his mom is liberal.
He’s basically parroting low fidelity Chan/Chapo/Roganisms - possibly fraternal influences. It’s extremely disappointing- he’s a great, smart kid who grew up in a high information and sophisticated urban environment exposed to every aspect of real life from poverty and gang violence in his neighborhood to homelessness to independent and accomplished women role models and he dismisses this election like an embarrassed Trump supporter. And that’s just the few things he is expressing.
the only solace I can take in this is that he’s the demographic least likely to vote. I pray he either figures it out or stays home.
The current online distortion seems to be a heady blend of building chaotic infighting on everything from politics to Star Wars- and trying to create an atmosphere of low energy and depressed enthusiasm.
even if the country elects a democrat in November- then there’s still a huge danger that without all three branches and a decent majority — whatever government is elected will lack the power and mandate to even undo the disintegration of the last three years.
the fact that there’s only one Romney is astonishing. He may be the last one too. If the Ds win then who the fuck do they even collaborate with? Romney and the debris left in the path of Hurricane Donald?
Our governance was already screwed simply by being a two party system - but one party realized its only chance of survival was to gerrymander and steal a one party system.
I’m muting every low key Trump voter, every both sides clown and everyone who equates “liberal “ with Neocon on purpose. I will continue to remind people of the stakes but the insidious deliberately planted and organically emergent chaos is breaking down my will.
“they” - a combination of disingenuous trolls, edgelord political neophytes, contrarian jerks, racists and yes- Russian agitators (who’ve somehow managed to make remembering or mentioning that Russian interference is widespread and ongoing is actually happening a tinfoil hat theory)
have done a pretty good job of turning 2020 into a crazy food fight of intransigence “, illogical self defeatism, perfect as enemy of the good, disingenuous morality and intellectual immobility.
someone please post a funny cat gif or hopeful reminder of decency.
