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I don't know how old you are, but if I had a kid the first year I voted, they'd be voting too by now.
For all but one of those elections my only motivation has been stopping republicans. 08 Obama I was legitimately voting for someone I wanted to be president. Every other one I was just voting against Republicans.
In that time I've seen the democratic party continue to move to the right.
Just last election I watch the DNC pull some bullshit so now billionaires can give 625k, well over the 2.5k that's already a problem, and allows direct cooperation unlike PACs.
This election I watch the DNC and their favorite cancel an entire states primary for something Dems in that state can't control. That state has been boring progressive over neoliberals fo a couple primaries now, and where one of the first states. That's not even getting i to the genocide support.
I'm sorry, I'm too old now, I've seen to much.
I know exactly what "Blue no matter who" leads to. And I've seen that as long as progressives do that, the DNC will keep moving to the right.
I legitimately wish there was a better way to show the DNC I can't support their direction over the past decades, but nothing else has worked.
The current path doesn't fix anything, it just results in both parties moving to the right. And we can't afford either party moving any further to the right.
That is a lot of words to say “I’m okay with a trump presidency”
And that's a small amount of words to say you don't plan ahead...
Like, imagine if someone "lived every day like it's their last".
It sounds great if you never think deeper than what it says on an old woman's decorative pillow.
That's what "blue no matter who" is. It might be a valid strategy if you're not planning ahead. But if you're not planning ahead anyways, why not blow all your money on drugs right now?
Meanwhile the rest of us can plan more than 4 year ahead of time.
Because we have literal decades of history to show what happens if the only standard is the letter next to a politicians name.
But hey, maybe THIS time we'll really learn our lesson. Just like we did after W.