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(10-01-2020, 12:37 AM)Dill Wrote: This is what I wish I better understood about people like "J"--Two puzzles here for me.

1. Why does this guy think the Trump/Biden are somehow EQUALLY "blithering blowhards"?  Biden's description of policies, consequences, etc. are much more precise; Trump's are mostly exaggerations, vague generalities, and lies.  Further, Trump embraces conspiracy theories and actively encourages voter distrust in the system. What on Biden's side is the equivalent? Biden was trying to play be the rules, Trump was actively breaking them, disrespecting the process, the obligation to inform the public. Biden does not claim to know more than the generals, or our intel agencies, or the doctors, or the economists, or to be a stable genius. 

2. Why does this guy see "no difference" between the guy who backed us out of the TPP, the IRan Deal, WHO, and the Paris Agreement, let Kim out of his box, rolled back environmental regulation, linked his pandemic response to the stock market, and signed a historical tax break for the wealthy--and the guy who would go the opposite direction on all those points?  What could he mean by "nothing will change"?  I have no idea. Our chances of weathering economic, pandemic and military threats, of stable continuance of government, would seem greater under Biden. But that's a good "no change," right? 

This incredible and extreme "bothsidesism" seems to undercut any possibility of critical thought, and of repair of toxic divisions.  It's like people think they are "seeing through" politics and politicians when they construct these depthless equivalences. 

I seriously wonder if people who think these candidates are "equally blowhards" could really recognize a candidate who transcended these supposed flaws, paradoxical as that might sound. 

The simple answer is they are Libertarian.  Of the ones in my friend group most are like that:  Everyone but my party stinks.  Only vote 3rd party.

And I can dig their devotion to the notion but they don't always realize how they are just as partisan about their own candidate and willing to overlook any and all flaws.  They want to have a major political party but also pretend that they won't be just like the other parties because...libertarian.

The rest of the the Big L friends are closet conservatives who just don't like taxes, minorities and women in power.  Fun guys.

Oh, and they are all guys.