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The thing about their attitude is that I vividly remember my early teens as well and can sort of identify with their head canon for a moment.
But then reality sets in and I remember how the world really works: stomping your foot and wishcasting into existence some perfectly progressive third party that everyone will vote for instead of the Democrats and Republicans sounds really great, but just is not going to happen, at least not in the months right after a primary and before the general.
Also, putting someone like donvict into power will not "teach a lesson" to everyone else. I really do think that these people imagine the world is just standing buy, pencil and notebook in hand, waiting to be instructed by the Democrats losing and the so-called "leftist" that is running around lecturing everyone about it. Lastly, when they lose and some of them then declare that the world should just burn because they didn't get their way and the DNC wasn't taking instruction from them, I find out what kind of pathology we are really dealing with...
They’re incredibly entitled and think that everyone else should believe in their single issue protest and that it is worth sacrificing systemically marginalized people and giving up the freedoms of others- all to protect people in a country most of them weren’t even aware existed two years ago.
They fucked up. BADLY. And just like those they blindly helped usher into power, they are too stubborn to ever admit it.
Ignorance and Cowardice: the perfect one-two combination to erase the two most stubborn side-effects of being a human being: shame and humility.
Yeah, in some ways they are worse than donvict voters - at least right now some of those people seem to be waking up and whining "I didn't vote for this" as the leopards eat their faces because they are extremely low-info about how things work and lack systems-style thinking. And it may be that at least some of them will have learned something from voting for the likes of donvict.
Meanwhile, on the faux leftist side of things, they generally are more aware of the consequences of what donvict actually ran on (and the goblins around him will actually do), and yet, they suffer from just enough Dunning-Kruger in the morality department to still be proud that they "didn't vote for genocide" (JFC) and are actually taunting others for being "shills" and other silly claims.
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