“The candidate has done nothing to earn my vote, so I’m not voting for them.”
“wtf why aren’t people voting for the candidate I support?! They must just hate everyone and be a fascist since they can’t see the obvious righteousness of my candidate”
These people never realize that this is a two way street. If candidates are going to earn votes, that means their candidate has to earn votes too and not just accept them for granted. They have to build bridges to achieve their goals. You can tell that those burning bridges don’t actually care about their espoused virtues – they just want to be right and stick it to their enemies.
Yeah. Plus the continuation of that conversation tends to go:
“Okay. He raised literally about a trillion dollars via corporate tax increases, which he then spent on climate change and working people, achieving incremental but quite significant results.”
“Yeah but did he OVERTURN CAPITALISM AND AMERICAN IMPERIALISM? Because if not PROJECT 2025 BECOMES ALL THE DEMOCRATS FAULT”
Ironically most of these people also tend to make arguments in favor of Russian imperialism when they talk about how NATO is actually to blame for the war and Ukraine should accept a peace agreement.
“The candidate has done nothing to earn my vote, so I’m not voting for them.”
“wtf why aren’t people voting for the candidate I support?! They must just hate everyone and be a fascist since they can’t see the obvious righteousness of my candidate”
These people never realize that this is a two way street. If candidates are going to earn votes, that means their candidate has to earn votes too and not just accept them for granted. They have to build bridges to achieve their goals. You can tell that those burning bridges don’t actually care about their espoused virtues – they just want to be right and stick it to their enemies.
Yeah. Plus the continuation of that conversation tends to go:
“Okay. He raised literally about a trillion dollars via corporate tax increases, which he then spent on climate change and working people, achieving incremental but quite significant results.”
“Yeah but did he OVERTURN CAPITALISM AND AMERICAN IMPERIALISM? Because if not PROJECT 2025 BECOMES ALL THE DEMOCRATS FAULT”
Ironically most of these people also tend to make arguments in favor of Russian imperialism when they talk about how NATO is actually to blame for the war and Ukraine should accept a peace agreement.
Almost as if…
I asked one of them randomly earlier what they think of the war in Ukraine, and they don’t want to discuss it, just keep talking to me about Joe Biden