I think for many people politics has stopped being about policy and representation and has now become more of a personal identity. So if you say Biden is lying, it's as if you've personally attacked their grandmother. I can't really put my finger on why this has happened but l have family members who l can't talk politics with, after years of being able to. America -- as well as Americans -- appear to be in a deep psychosis.
I generally vote 3rd party, but the Democrats have become so disgustingly evil, actually frightful in their calls to censor and "re-educate," that I FEEL like voting Republican. As Caitlin says, "A growing awareness of the truth of our large-scale collective dynamics as a species, and a growing awareness of our inner processes as individuals," helps me to recognize that FEELING for what it is, an irrational urge to commit a self-destructive act.
Those who give in to that FEELING and vote Republican will be helping to accomplish the Democratic goal to, "...lose and go back to letting the Republicans play the bad cop." The only paths to take that are not self-destructive are a) vote for a 3rd party candidate or Mickey Mouse and b) to demonstrate the illegitimacy of the system by not voting at all. I choose a) because it sends the message that I am NOT apathetic, and gives hope as people did in 1854-55 that a viable 3rd party alternative can develop, as the Republican Party eventually did, to counter the complicity of the Whigs and Democrats with the slave states.
I think for many people politics has stopped being about policy and representation and has now become more of a personal identity. So if you say Biden is lying, it's as if you've personally attacked their grandmother. I can't really put my finger on why this has happened but l have family members who l can't talk politics with, after years of being able to. America -- as well as Americans -- appear to be in a deep psychosis.
ANY criticism of Democrats will get you labeled "conservative" as well as a Trump supporter. I see it in my family as well.
I generally vote 3rd party, but the Democrats have become so disgustingly evil, actually frightful in their calls to censor and "re-educate," that I FEEL like voting Republican. As Caitlin says, "A growing awareness of the truth of our large-scale collective dynamics as a species, and a growing awareness of our inner processes as individuals," helps me to recognize that FEELING for what it is, an irrational urge to commit a self-destructive act.
Those who give in to that FEELING and vote Republican will be helping to accomplish the Democratic goal to, "...lose and go back to letting the Republicans play the bad cop." The only paths to take that are not self-destructive are a) vote for a 3rd party candidate or Mickey Mouse and b) to demonstrate the illegitimacy of the system by not voting at all. I choose a) because it sends the message that I am NOT apathetic, and gives hope as people did in 1854-55 that a viable 3rd party alternative can develop, as the Republican Party eventually did, to counter the complicity of the Whigs and Democrats with the slave states.
So True... I agree... Keep telling it like it is. Thank you.