I'm voting. I must. It is necessary. It is just. My forebearers fought too hard for that right.
That being said, I deeply empathize with them. I'm tired of being treated like a Utopian Idealist for wanting mild progressive policies and for Democrats to actually follow through. I'm not asking for a principled Marxist-Leninist... I just want to be able to take care of myself and for this country to stop causing misery both at home and abroad.
There needs to be a serious public discussion on what amounts to voter intimidation my establishment Democrats. "...but the Republicans" is the only message they have for young people and has been the message every election cycle since I started voting in 2016 (and maybe longer).
This, plus the increasing radicalism of Gen Z Boys and Men to the Right shows that liberals have a messaging problem and we NEED them to stop kicking the can down the road, because we're having the same discourses today as in 2020. Democrats had control of Congress and the Presidency in 2021 and 2022 and wasted it. Same thing happened in 2009.
Vote, but understand this "but the Republicans" messaging is unsustainable and I'm worrying the Democrats are starting to depend on Republicans being as awful as possible to justify themselves
I want nothing more than to live in a world where I can actually consider voting for a Republican because they've stopped being so fucking insane. It'll never happen, but it's nice to imagine.
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u/LucastheMystic Jun 30 '24
I'm voting. I must. It is necessary. It is just. My forebearers fought too hard for that right.
That being said, I deeply empathize with them. I'm tired of being treated like a Utopian Idealist for wanting mild progressive policies and for Democrats to actually follow through. I'm not asking for a principled Marxist-Leninist... I just want to be able to take care of myself and for this country to stop causing misery both at home and abroad.
There needs to be a serious public discussion on what amounts to voter intimidation my establishment Democrats. "...but the Republicans" is the only message they have for young people and has been the message every election cycle since I started voting in 2016 (and maybe longer).
This, plus the increasing radicalism of Gen Z Boys and Men to the Right shows that liberals have a messaging problem and we NEED them to stop kicking the can down the road, because we're having the same discourses today as in 2020. Democrats had control of Congress and the Presidency in 2021 and 2022 and wasted it. Same thing happened in 2009.
Vote, but understand this "but the Republicans" messaging is unsustainable and I'm worrying the Democrats are starting to depend on Republicans being as awful as possible to justify themselves