I have seen a few of these with similar story lines and realized we are living it right now. They have the best healthcare, the best food, the best everything and most of us are a few dollars from disaster. That scares some of us to death literally from all the stress it causes.

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    9 months ago

    Yeah it’s not about Dems thinking anyone is infallible. Largely they’re pretty clear about denouncing their own when it’s deserved. It’s about being presented a ballot where your options are a polished turd or a fresh smelly chili shart plopped into a bowl and poured on your head. There are no good choices to vote republican, and when presented with this dichotomy I’ll vote blue every time until a better option is presented to me. Get better candidates and then we’ll talk.

    That said I don’t disagree with the core of your statement here. The whole institution is rotten to the core. I’m just tired of people projecting hero-worship onto democratic voters. That’s a republican thing. We don’t really do that. You have to earn the respect of democrats. I voted for Biden because I couldn’t stomach another round of Trump and was presented no other option, and I’ll do it again if I have to. Doesn’t mean I love him. Doesn’t mean I even particularly like him, because I don’t really, I think he sticks too close to the status quo. But he’s by far the lesser of two evils.

    The downvotes are probably from people conditioned from experience to be dealing with rabid trumptards that either won’t or can’t listen to any viewpoint. A majority of arguments that begin with “But Biden-” fall into that category. Dems will listen to and readily agree with legitimate criticism, it just has to be couched within an intelligent argument.