Re:How the Insufferably Woke Help Trump
by anm89 on Friday November 08, 2019 @04:10PM
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Yeah couldn't agree more with this sentiment.
I'm unafilliated libertarian but lean left on many things and I have an unbelievably strong dislike of Trump. All the democrats would have to do would be to exist quietly and generally oppose Trump to come off looking like super heros in my mind. All they have to do is be the voice of reason/ adults in the room and even if I'm generally unaligned politically I'd vote for them.
Instead they have decided that they have to try to be equally obnoxious in the other direction. At least obnoxious republicans just pretty much say "yup we're assholes what are you going to do about it?" But democrats manage to be 90% as obnoxious most of the time while maintaining this intolerable smugness and self righteousness and absolute refusal to acknowledge that anyone who doesn't tow their line absolutely isn't a "facist", "racist", "misoginst", "xxxxxist".
Look at how they are treating Tulsi Gabbard to see how intense this desire to eat their own if they are minorly off message is.
They've become the thing they used to hate.
I think I would literally vote for a turd sandwich over Mitt Romney and yet as someone who is fairly left leaning, I would take him over most of the current batch of Democratic Nominees.
If Bernie would stop trying to incite a literal class war every time he opened his mouth I could probably tolerate him but he's leaning more and more extreme every day. I supported him in 2016.
In the end, I've decided the best thing to do is to care as little as possible. If Trump won again I think I'd be annoyed for about 5 minutes and then I'd be over it. I can't be bothered anymore.
I'm unafilliated libertarian but lean left on many things and I have an unbelievably strong dislike of Trump. All the democrats would have to do would be to exist quietly and generally oppose Trump to come off looking like super heros in my mind. All they have to do is be the voice of reason/ adults in the room and even if I'm generally unaligned politically I'd vote for them.
Instead they have decided that they have to try to be equally obnoxious in the other direction. At least obnoxious republicans just pretty much say "yup we're assholes what are you going to do about it?" But democrats manage to be 90% as obnoxious most of the time while maintaining this intolerable smugness and self righteousness and absolute refusal to acknowledge that anyone who doesn't tow their line absolutely isn't a "facist", "racist", "misoginst", "xxxxxist".
Look at how they are treating Tulsi Gabbard to see how intense this desire to eat their own if they are minorly off message is.
They've become the thing they used to hate.
I think I would literally vote for a turd sandwich over Mitt Romney and yet as someone who is fairly left leaning, I would take him over most of the current batch of Democratic Nominees.
If Bernie would stop trying to incite a literal class war every time he opened his mouth I could probably tolerate him but he's leaning more and more extreme every day. I supported him in 2016.
In the end, I've decided the best thing to do is to care as little as possible. If Trump won again I think I'd be annoyed for about 5 minutes and then I'd be over it. I can't be bothered anymore.