Re:Congress' push to regulate Big Tech is fizzling out
by selimthegrim on Thursday July 21, 2022 @11:56PM
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It would be interesting to ask your parents if their experience with the personality cult of Mujib led them to vote that way here.
Re:Congress' push to regulate Big Tech is fizzling out
by rayiner on Friday July 22, 2022 @12:51AM
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My mom is from a wealthy family and mainly votes democrat because she views Republicans as the party of religious “common people” and democrats as the party of the educated elite. She agrees with Trump about a lot of things, but hates him because “he talks like an uneducated person.”
My dad dad is more of a traditional Carter Democrat. He likes big government and Obamacare and rule by law expert administrators. He dislikes Republicans for their Nixon/Reagan/Bush era foreign policy (especially Nixon’s support of Pakistan against Bangladesh). He’s slowly coming to terms with the fact that although he hates Trump, he agrees with Trump on a bunch of things (pro-Russia, anti-accepting Afghan refugees, etc.)
And the utopianism harms the very minorities you claim to advocate for. My parents, immigrants from Bangladesh, don't vote straight-ticket Democrat because they think you can achieve racial harmony. They do it because they think Obamacare is a good idea. You're not going to convince them that Bangladeshis have common cause with other minorities, or that police are bad, or that same-sex marriage is great, or that anyone should ever "celebrate their abortion." They will go along with those things, but they're voting for a political party to achieve tangible results, not bring about the Rapture.