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I suppose I should've said it shouldn't be, people can and do of course think all kinds of silly and illogical things. It's a poor strategic choice at the individual and group level to identify with a candidate but to each their own. Propaganda gets us all.
this is the bit that i found most objectionable. almost all the rhetoric around an election talks about support: financial, popular, or political.
voting is definitely supporting a candidate, pretty much any way you slice it.
Yes, it's to the candidtates benefit for voters to identify with candidates, it's not generally in the voters interest.
this part also assumed universal goals. one of my goals is to smash capital and the state. the democrat party will most definitely be part of that. voting for them doesn't advance my goals.
And I suppose Roe v. Wade doesn't factor into your goals then either?
that's been overturned. you cant get it reinstated without an act of congress.
i don't want the government involved in anything. why would i want them deciding the degree to which they should be involved in someone's healthcare?
Well, they're already doing it.
Unless you're planning the coup tomorrow, I don't know how this is supposed to help me.
unless the Democrats want to give up one of their main vote-driving issues, voting for them isn't going to solve it either.