This paints everyone as right or left, which I don’t find accurate or helpful. I think other labels even if they meant the same category, to be more helpful.
> This paints everyone as right or left, which I don’t find accurate or helpful.
I’d argue it’s incredibly helpful.
I live in a state with a couple contentious elections coming up. Something I’ve noticed is no one seems to have anything to say regarding these elections.
It’s fucking bleak. Every discussion I see ends with swaths of old boomers stating how they know absolutely nothing about the candidate, their positions or views, but intend to vote for them simply because of the associated “blue” or “red”. It’s “vote blue no matter who” or “trvst the plan” low IQ idiocy.
I hate the left/right, blue/red, whatever dichotomy. I think it’s weak and it’s rarely held when having real discussions with real people, but when it comes to voting I don’t think anything but that dichotomy matters anymore.
One was the number of people who think that violent crime is a huge problem. It's clear from actual crime statistics that violent crime is way down from what it was when I was young. Maybe it's just "if it bleeds it leads" news, or maybe it's certain people in the media-sphere harping on the topic, I don't know.
The other is the faith based conservatives' support of Trump. He is everything they claim to hate, but they still support him. I know part of it is his support of Israel, and the premillennialist beliefs that are currently popular in some of the evangelical denominations, but is that the whole thing?
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 24.5 ms ] threadI’d argue it’s incredibly helpful.
I live in a state with a couple contentious elections coming up. Something I’ve noticed is no one seems to have anything to say regarding these elections.
It’s fucking bleak. Every discussion I see ends with swaths of old boomers stating how they know absolutely nothing about the candidate, their positions or views, but intend to vote for them simply because of the associated “blue” or “red”. It’s “vote blue no matter who” or “trvst the plan” low IQ idiocy.
I hate the left/right, blue/red, whatever dichotomy. I think it’s weak and it’s rarely held when having real discussions with real people, but when it comes to voting I don’t think anything but that dichotomy matters anymore.
One was the number of people who think that violent crime is a huge problem. It's clear from actual crime statistics that violent crime is way down from what it was when I was young. Maybe it's just "if it bleeds it leads" news, or maybe it's certain people in the media-sphere harping on the topic, I don't know.
The other is the faith based conservatives' support of Trump. He is everything they claim to hate, but they still support him. I know part of it is his support of Israel, and the premillennialist beliefs that are currently popular in some of the evangelical denominations, but is that the whole thing?