• XIIIesq@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    OP is asking for help and I think a side by side comparison list is a very reasonable thing to ask for.

    Calling people that would possibly vote along side you, but haven’t decided yet, “morons”, serves to push them away and to vote against you.

    You might not like the idea of engaging people that haven’t decided they’re voting the same way you are, but I’d encourage you to (without being mean!), unless you want to sleep walk in to another Trump presidency.

    We need more people like OP and less people like you.

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      3 months ago

      You engage with people like that long enough and grow tired of it. I used to do that a lot. I’m done. Far too many people aren’t going to change and I quit wasting my time, and in a lot of cases they’re so nuts I just removed them from my life.

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        3 months ago

        I understand being exhausted. And if you can’t do it anymore there’s no shame in that.

        But please give other, less-tired people an opportunity to try and make things better instead of lashing out in a way that discourages them or alienate those they’re trying to persuade.

        There are millions of people in this country disengaged from the political process because all they see is the hostility between the 2 sides. They want to avoid hostility, so they avoid politics altogether.

        They legitimately don’t know how bad Trump is because they disengage as soon as they hear his name or see his face.

        They’ve actively, intentionally engaged in political ignorance because they hate conflict. That’s good for Trump’s goons, because that instinct to want everybody to get along and work together is counter to their political agenda.

        Their ignorance comes from a misguided but sincere goodness, and by insulting them we just make them double-down on their strategy.

        We need them to vote. Trump needs them to not vote.

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        3 months ago

        I can’t say that I don’t suffer political fatigue, but that still doesn’t cause me act in a way that actively alienates undecided people from voting alongside me.