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I am a perpetual optimist....
And when looking back at the last 8 years, at least 2016-2020 when the president was fucking up, everyone I'd run into tended to agree.
Bidens term though when I was upset about anything, I'd either get gaslight that it's not a problem or the only people agreeing with me never looked past the letter next to Biden's name when deciding if they should complain about what he was doing.
So I'm still gonna be complaining about the same shit, I'll still verbalize what I think will work...
But in the next four years people are going to act like I've done a 180, because the concept of actually holding both parties to an equal standard is that unheard of in America today. People like me still exist, it's just a whole hell of a lot of us had their final straw when Dems closed rank to protect Bill Clinton lying under oath.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/did-clinton-lie-under-oath/
The 1/3 of the country that doesn't vote aren't in the middle of our two parties on any spectrum. They're looking at the parties on a measure of integrity and trustworthiness. And found both lacking.
Republicans aren't going to run someone that meets that standard, so all Dems have to do to win a presidential election is put up the only candidate who meets that standard in a general election. Stop focusing on "better than Republicans" and focus on "good enough for our voters".
Yelling at them to vote D doesn't work, so why not trying to give them what they want? It's better for all of us anyways.