I've thought about it. I could never expect someone who has lost family to listen to my arguments. I'm thinking more about young people who are looking at this from the outside.
Part of my frustration is that people had the dumbest reasons for not voting for Hillary in 2016. Yet here we are now with very valid reasons to not vote for Biden but with much higher stakes. I'm angry with the whole situation and the people in power who could make the situation better but refuse to for ideological reasons or bias.
Meanwhile, Republicans seem to have it easy because they can just sit back and say, "LMAO, we love killing brown people" and don't think any further than that.
Dems are at a greater disadvantage because the other side after unhinged sadists driven by grievance and spite. The press expects more of them. And this huge failure to stand up for the right things at a crucial moment shows the hypocrisy of the Western left not just in the US.
Yet even despite that, I think the flawed left is the only path to the future. It isn't the 90's anymore. Republicans are out for blood. Fascism has resurged worldwide. I only have two options in a two party system. I have to minimize harm, even when people are already being harmed in the worst ways imaginable.
This isn't a movie where a third option will magically appear in the eleventh hour that solves every problem and we just have to find it through sheer grit and strong will.
